أَوَانٌ

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أَوَانٌ and إِوَانٌ , the latter mentioned by Ks on the authority of Aboo-Jámi', but the former is the usual mode of pronouncing it, and أَوْنٌ , A time; a season: pl. آوِنَةٌ; but Sb says آوناتٌ; (M; [so in a copy of that work; app. آوِنَاتٌ, as though pl. of آوِنَةٌ;]) and آيِنَةٌ is syn. with آوِنَةٌ. You say, جَآءَ أَوَانُ البَرْدِ [The time, or season, of cold came]. And فُلَانٌ يَصْنَعُ ذٰلِكَ الأَمْرَ آوِنَةً, and آيِنَةً, (K, [in the CK آئِنَةً,]) Such a one does that thing sometimes, leaving it undone sometimes. And أَتَيْتُهُ آينَةً بَعْدَ آيِنَةٍ I came to him times after times. And آوِنَةً signifies Time after time. In the saying , طَلَبُوا صُلْحَنَا وَلَاتَ أَوَانٍ or إِوَانٍ, [They sought our reconciliation with them, but it was not the time that reconciliation should be sought], accord. to Abu-l- 'Abbás, the tenween of the last word is not a sign of the genitive case, but is, as in the instance of إِذٍ, because of the suppression of a proposition to which the word should be prefixed, as when you say, جِئْتُ أَوَانَ قَامَ زَيْدٌ I came at the time that Zeyd stood.
2 [Hence, أَوَانَئِذٍ At that time or season; then; like حِينَئِذٍ.]

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