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هُون

disgrace /ˈhuːn/

nounB1#2857 most common

Also: humiliation, degradation, ignominy

Example sentences

هذا هُونٌ كبيرٌ.
This is a great disgrace.
لا أريد أن أعيش في هُونٍ.
I don't want to live in disgrace.
شعر بالهُونِ بعد الهزيمةِ.
He felt disgraced after the defeat.
رفض أن يقبل الهُونَ الذي فرضوه عليه.
He refused to accept the disgrace they imposed on him.
قال تعالى: "الْيَوْمَ تُجْزَوْنَ عَذَابَ الْهُونِ".
God says: "Today you will be repaid with the punishment of disgrace."
يرى بعض الفلاسفة أن الرضوخ للظلم ضربٌ من الهُونِ لا يليق بكرامة الإنسان الحر.
Some philosophers hold that submitting to injustice is a form of disgrace unbefitting a free man's dignity.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nominativeالهُونُ(no plural in common use)
Genitiveالهُونِ(no plural in common use)
Accusativeالهُونَ(no plural in common use)
Vocativeيا هُونُ(no plural in common use)

Word family

هَوَانdisgrace, humiliation
هَيِّنeasy, trivial, insignificant
أَهْوَنeasier; more contemptible (comparative)
هَانَto become lowly or despised; to be easy
أَهَانَto insult, to humiliate

Etymology

The noun comes from the triliteral Semitic root h-w-n, whose core sense is lightness in weight or worth. Classical Arabic split this root into two nouns by vowel pattern alone: hawn (fatha) for gentleness and calm, and hūn (damma) for the negative side of the same idea, being of little worth, hence disgrace. The Quran uses al-hūn several times to describe the punishment of the arrogant, which fixed the word's formal, elevated register.

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