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تون — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

tun
Pronunciation:Standard: /tun/
Noun (Masculine)plural: تونونهOrigin: Origin Unknown → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

تون (tun) is a Pashto n-m meaning “homeland, motherland” in English او په اردو کې د «زمین، کشور، وطن» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form تونونه.

Meanings · Entry 15

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
homeland, motherland[obsolete]
زمین، کشور، وطن
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2
red cedar, toona (Cedrela toona)[culinary]
لال، سرخ
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3
tuna[culinary]
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4
suffix denoting place[culinary]
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5
home, dwelling, abode[culinary]
گھر، پد، سرائے
Example in context:

بې ځایه تونه

“rootless; homeless”

چیونٹیوں کا گھر چیونٹیوں کے رہنے کی جگہ ہے۔

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Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
OpenPashto Morphology
Grammatical Formحالت او بڼه
پښتو بڼهPashto Form
Phoneticتلفظ
Dir Plural (-ūnah)
تونونهtun-ūnah
Obl Plural (-ūno)
تونونوtun-ūno
Animate Plural (-ān)
تونانtun-ān
Animate Obl Plural (-āno)
تونانوtun-āno
Vocative Singular (-a)
تونهtun-a

Examples from corpora4

قاموسي او ادبي شواهد

Attested real-world sentences grouped by source. Headwords highlighted in context.

PashDict Unified Lexicon

مېږتون د مېږیو د اوسېدو ځای دی.

“An ant-hill is a place where ants live.”

چیونٹیوں کا گھر چیونٹیوں کے رہنے کی جگہ ہے۔

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ماشومان نن په وړکتون کې دی.

“The children are in kindergarten today.”

بچے آج کنڈرگارٹن میں ہیں۔

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د هغه تون ښه نه دی، له خلکو سره بد چلند کوی.

“His nature is not good; he behaves badly with people.”

اس کی عادت اچھی نہیں ہے، لوگوں کے ساتھ برا سلوک کرتا ہے۔

د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)
کتل ▼

Origin Unknown

Homograph 1; Flagged: origin unknown

Entry #2 of 3 · Noun (Masculine)

تون (n-m · Entry 2)

twan
Pronunciation:Standard: /twan/
Noun (Masculine)plural: تونونهOrigin: Origin Unknown → PashtoVerified sense 1

Meanings · Entry 21

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
hut, shack, cabin, cottage[culinary]
کلبہ، جھونپڑی
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Entry #3 of 3 · suffix

ـتون (suffix · Entry 3)

ـتون
Pronunciation:Standard: /ـتون/
suffixplural: ـتانۀOrigin: Native Pashto → PashtoVerified sense 1

Meanings · Entry 32

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
a suffix added to nouns and adjectives to form nouns of location "the place of X"[wiktionary]
لاحق، سنسکار، وضع
Example in context:

مېږتون د مېږیو د اوسېدو ځای دی.

“An ant-hill is a place where ants live.”

چیونٹیوں کا گھر چیونٹیوں کے رہنے کی جگہ ہے۔

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2
[Classical] A native country, a birth-place, hence the Afg̠ẖāns are called Puś̱ẖtūn and Puś̱ẖtānah, from پاښت pāś̱ẖt or pāḵ́ẖt or پښت paś̱ẖt or paḵ́ẖt , the name of their first locality near the Taḵẖt-i-Sūlīmān, west of the Indus. See Introduction to Grammar, p. 8[classical]
Page 1112 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
Example in context:

ماشومان نن په وړکتون کې دی.

“The children are in kindergarten today.”

بچے آج کنڈرگارٹن میں ہیں۔

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Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword تون (tun) functions as a n-m in standard Pashto lexicography. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.

Phonological & Dialectal Realization

Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.

Peer-reviewed lexicographical standard · Open Pashto Corpus Edition

Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه