ćhon

See also: chon, Chon, CHON, -chon, -chon-, chôn, chọn, chốn, chồn, and čhon

Romani

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Sanskrit ज्योत्स्ना (jyotsnā, “moonlight”).[1][2][3]

Noun

ćhon m (nominative plural ćhona)

  1. (International Standard)
    1. moon[1][3][4][5]
    2. month[2][5][6]

References
  1. Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “jyṓtsnā”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 292
  2. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “čhon”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 58b
  3. Michael Beníšek (2020 August) “The Historical Origins of Romani”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 19
  4. Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 92
  5. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o ćhon[ut]², -es- m. -a, -en- = o ćhonùt/o³, -os- m. -urǎ, -o[ne]n- = o ćhonùtik/o³, -os- m. -urǎ, -o[ne]n-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 116b-117a
  6. Yūsuke Sumi (2018) “ćhon, ～a”, in ニューエクスプレスプラス　ロマ（ジプシー）語 [New Express Plus Romani (Gypsy)] (in Japanese), Tokyo: Hakusuisha, published 2021, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 147
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