हूण

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
  • ᬳᬹᬡ (Balinese script)
  • হূণ (Assamese script)
  • হূণ (Bengali script)
  • 𑰮𑰳𑰜 (Bhaiksuki script)
  • 𑀳𑀽𑀡 (Brahmi script)
  • 𑌹𑍂𑌣 (Grantha script)
  • હૂણ (Gujarati script)
  • ਹੂਣ (Gurmukhi script)
  • ꦲꦹꦟ (Javanese script)
  • ហូណ (Khmer script)
  • ಹೂಣ (Kannada script)
  • ຫູຓ (Lao script)
  • ഹൂണ (Malayalam script)
  • 𑘮𑘴𑘜 (Modi script)
  • ᠾᠤᠤᢏᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
  • ᡥᡠᡠᢏᠠ (Manchu script)
  • ဟူဏ (Burmese script)
  • 𑧎𑧕𑦼 (Nandinagari script)
  • 𑐴𑐹𑐞 (Newa script)
  • ହୂଣ (Odia script)
  • ꢲꢹꢠ (Saurashtra script)
  • 𑆲𑆷𑆟 (Sharada script)
  • 𑖮𑖳𑖜 (Siddham script)
  • හූණ (Sinhalese script)
  • ஹூண (Tamil script)
  • హూణ (Telugu script)
  • หูณ (Thai script)
  • ཧཱུ་ཎ (Tibetan script)
  • 𑒯𑒴𑒝 (Tirhuta script)

Etymology

Of Central Asian origin. Pulleyblank (2000) proposes that हूण (hūṇa) shares the same underlying source as English Huns, Late Latin Hunni, Koine Greek Οὗννοι (Hoûnnoi), Sogdian [script needed] (xwn), and Old Chinese 匈奴 (*qʰoŋ naː) (318 CE), the last of which, according to Schuessler (2014), possibly transcribed foreign *Hǒna ~ *Hǔna.[1][2] For more see Huna people and Xiongnu.

While the name of the Hunas apparently derived from the same source as Hun, the two groups were not necessarily synonymous and their exact relationship is unclear.[3]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

हूण • (hūṇa) stem, m

  1. the name of a barbarous people, the Huna people: a Central Asian (likely Turkic-Mongolic) tribe that invaded the Gupta Empire

Declension

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Descendants
  • Prakrit: 𑀳𑀽𑀡 (hūṇa)
  • → Bengali: হূণ (hun)

References
  1. Pulleyblank, Edwin (2000), “Ji and Jiang: The Role of Exogamic Clans in the Organization of the Zhou Polity”, in Early China, volume 25, Society for the Study of Early China, page 17 of pages 1-27
  2. Schuessler, Axel (2014). "Phonological Notes on Hàn Period Transcriptions of Foreign Names and Words" in Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text. Series: Language and Linguistics Monograph Series. 53 Ed. VanNess Simmons, Richard & Van Auken, Newell Ann. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. p. 257, 264 of 249-292
  3. Haywood, John (2002). Historical Atlas of the Classical World 500BC-600AD. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 2.23.
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