English

Noun

Gaon ‎(plural Geonim or Gaons)

1. (historical, Judaism) A sage of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia.

Quotations

• 1991, Joseph Telushkin, Jewish Literacy

  The Gaon also was distressed by the veneration the Hasidim accorded their rabbinic leaders, men whom the Gaon generally regarded as ignoramuses.

• 1996, Roger Friedland, Richard Hecht, To Rule Jerusalem

  Like the hasidim, he too refused the title of rabbi, adopting the ancient title of Gaon.

• 1997, Moshe Gil, A History of Palestine

  The Gaon also mentions a letter he has received from Ḥasan as-ʻĀqūlī (al-ʻĀqūla, the ancient Aramaic name for Kūfa) undoubtedly one of the emigrants from Iraq to Egypt whom the Gaon knew.

Anagrams

• agon
• Goan

English

Noun

gaon ‎(plural geonim)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Gaon

Etymology 2

From Hindi गांव ‎(gānv).

Noun

gaon ‎(plural gaons)

1. (India) A village

Dutch Low Saxon

Verb

gaon

1. to go

Limburgish

Etymology

From Old Dutch gān, from a fusion of Proto-Germanic *gāną and *ganganą, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₁-, *ǵʰengʰ-.

Noun

gaon n

1. going
2. leaving

Verb

gaon

1. to go
2. to leave

Conjugation

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Adverb

gaon

1. gladly

Verb

gaon

1. to give