امکان

See also: امكان and إمكان

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔim.kɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪm.kʰɑːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔɪm.kʰɑːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔɪm.kʰɑːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔim.kʰɔːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔem.kʰɒːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔim.kʰɔn]

Readings
Classical reading?	imkān
Dari reading?	imkān
Iranian reading?	emkân
Tajik reading?	imkon

Noun

Dari	امکان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	имкон

امکان • (emkân) (plural امکان‌ها (emkân-hâ))

1. possibility
   • 2024 April 30, “یک سند محرمانه از تعرض جنسی به نیکا شاکرمی و جزئیات قتل او به دست نیروهای امنیتی ایران پرده برداشت”, in bbc.com/persian‎^[1], BBC Persian:

     مجموع اسناد این امکان را به بی‌بی‌سی داده است تا آنچه را که بر نیکا شاکرمی، ۱۶ ساله، از زمان بازداشت تا ناپدید شدن او گذشت بازسازی کند.

     majmu'-e asnâd in emkân râ be bi-bi-si dâde ast tâ ânče râ ke bar nikâ šâkarâmi, 19 sâle, az zamân-e bâzdâšt tâ nâpadid šodan-e u gozašt bâzsâzi konad.

     The collection of documents gave BBC the opportunity to reconstruct what Nika Shakarami, aged 19, had gone through from the time of her arrest until her disappearance.

Related terms

• مُمکِن (momken)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian امکان (imkān), itself from Arabic إِمْكَان (ʔimkān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪm.kɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: اِم‧کان

Noun

اِمْکان • (imkān) m (Hindi spelling इम्कान)

1. possibility, probability
2. means, courage
3. control
4. contingent existence
5. this world, existence

Declension

Declension of امکان
	singular	plural
direct	اِمْکان (imkān)	اِمْکان (imkān)
oblique	اِمْکان (imkān)	اِمْکانوں (imkānō̃)
vocative	اِمْکان (imkān)	اِمْکانو (imkānō)

Further reading

• “امکان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “امکان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “امکان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.