جون1 جَانَ, (K, TA, [in the CK, erroneously, جانَّ,]) inf. n. جَوْنٌ, (TA,) It (the face) became  black. (K.) جَوْنٌ White: and black: (S, Msb, K:) thus  bearing two contr. significations: (S:) and ↓ جُونِىٌّ, also, has the latter signification: (IAth, TA in art. حوت:) or جَوْنٌ signifies black tinged over with red: (T, M, TA:) and black intermixed with red; the colour of the قَطَا: (T, TA:) and also red: (K:) or of a pure red colour: (TA:) and, applied to a horse and a camel, of the colour termed أَدْهَم, (S, K,) intensely black: (S:) every camel, and every wild ass, seen from a distance, is of this colour: fem. with ة: (T, TA:) and, applied to a plant, or herbage, green, (K,) or intensely green, (TA,) inclining to blackness: (K, TA:) pl. جُونٌ; (S, TA;) like as صُتْمٌ is of صَتْمٌ, (S,) and وُرْدٌ of وَرْدٌ. (M, TA.) You say also, الشَّمْسُ جَوْنَةٌ The sun is characterized by what is termed جُونَةٌ: (S:) or is intensely glistening and clear. (Az, TA.) [See also جَوْنَةٌ below.] See also جُونِىٌّ. Accord. to ISk, أَبُو الجَوْنِ meansThe white man: opposed to أَبُوالبَيْضَآءِ meaning the negro. (TA in art. بيض.) b2:  Also (assumed tropical:)  Day: (AO, S, K:) pl. as above. (K.) So in the saying, غَيَّرَ يَا بِنْتَ الحُلَيْسِ لَوْنِىمَرُّ اللَّيَالِى وَاخْتِلَافُ الجُوْنِ [The passing of the nights, and the alternating of the day, have changed, O daughter of El-Holeys, my colour]. (AO, S.) b3:  And, accord. to certain of the lawyers, metaphorically, (tropical:)  The light: and the darkness. (Msb.) b4:  And accord. to IAar, (assumed tropical:)  The فرق [app. فَرَق, meaning day-break]. (TA.) A2:  الجَوْنَانِ The two extremities of the bow. (Fr, Az, K.) جَوْنَةٌ The sun; (K;) [i. e.] the sun's disc; because it becomes black [or of a blackish colour tinged with red] at setting; (S;) or it may be because of its whiteness and clearness; but it is said to be only applied to the sun when it is setting; opposed to غَزَالَةٌ; as observed by MF: (TA:) [see also جَوْنٌ:] the sun is also called ↓ جَوْنَآءُ, (K,) because of its becoming black [or of a blackish colour tinged with red] at setting. (TA.) b2:  A [jar such as is called] خَابِيَة: (IAar, TA:) or a خابية smeared with tar, or pitch. (S.) [See an ex. in a verse of Lebeed cited in art. دكن.] See also جُونَةٌ. b3:  And A bucket (دَلْو) that has become black. (IAar, TA.) b4:  And i. q.  فَحْمَةٌ [which may here mean either A piece of charcoal, or the blackness of night or the like]. (IAar, K.) b5:  And i. q. أَحْمَرُ [perhaps as a subst., meaning A red thing]. (K.) b6:  See also جَونِىٌّ.جُونَةٌ The quality [i. e. colour], in horses, denoted by [the epithet] جَوْنٌ; like غُبْسةٌ and دُهْمَةٌ; (S;) in horses, i. q. جَوْنَةٌ: (K:) and in the sun, also, the quality denoted by جَوْنَةٌ [as fem. of جَوْنٌ, q. v.]: and blackness; as in the saying, لَا أَفْعَلُهُ حَتَّى تَبْيَضَّ جُونَةُ القَارِ [I will not do it until the blackness of pitch, or tar, become white]: but if you say القَارِ ↓ جَوْنَةُ, the meaning is the خَابِية [smeared with tar, or pitch]. (S.) A2: A small basket (سُلَيْلَة), (K,) or سَفَط, (K in art. جأن,) of a round form, (TA,) that is with the sellers of perfumes, (S, K,) used for containing their perfumes: (K in art. جأن:) called in Persian شِيشَهْ دَانٌ [a receptacle for bottles or the like]: (KL:) originally with ء: (K:) or sometimes pronounced with ء: (S:) El-Fárisee approved the suppression of the ء: (M, TA:) pl. جُوَنٌ. (S, M, K.) [See also رَبْعَةٌ.]A3:  A small mountain. (K.) جَوْنَآءُ: see جَوْنَةٌ. b2:  Also A cooking-pot; (K;) because it is black. (TA.) b3:  And A she-camel  such as is termed دَهْمَآءُ [of an intense, or a dark, gray colour, without any admixture of white]; from جَانَ said of the face. (K.) جُونِىٌّ: see جَوْنٌ. b2:  Also A species of the kind of bird called قَطًا, (S, K,) black in the belly and wings, larger than the [species called] كُدْرِىّ, one of the former species being equal to two of the latter: (S, TA:) or, accord. to ISk, the قطا compose two species; one called جُونِىٌّ and كُدْرِىٌّ; and the other, غَطَاطٌ; and the former is dusky, or dingy, or of a hue inclining to black and dust-colour, (أَكْدَر,) in the back, black in the inner side of the wing, yellow in the throat, short in the legs, having in the tail two feathers longer than the rest of the tail: (T, TA:) or, as some say, the كُدْرِيَّة and جُونِيَّة are one of the two species of the قطا, and the other is the غطاط; and the former are short in the legs, yellow in the necks, black in the primary feathers of the wings, of a white hue tinged with red (صُهْب) in the tertials: (TA voce غطاط, q. v.:) [but see كُدْرِىٌّ: the جونىّ is described by De Sacy, on the authority of the book entitled درّة المنتقاة من عجائب المخلوقات وغرائب الموجودات, thus: “ le  djouni a les barbes internes des ailes et les pennes primaires noires; il a la gorge blanche, ornée de deux colliers, l'un jaune et l'autre noir; son dos est d'un gris cendré, moucheté, mêlé d'un peu de jaune: on appelle cette espèce djouni, parce que sa voix ne rend pas un son clair et sonore, mais qu'elle fait entendre seulement une sorte de gargouillement dans le gosier: ” (Chrest. Arabe, 2nd ed., ii. 369:)] it is stated in the handwriting of As, on the authority of the Arabs, that جونىّ, applied to the قطا, is with ء; app. meaning that it was pronounced جُؤُنِىٌّ: (M, TA:) a single bird of this species is termed جُونِيَّةٌ: (S:) and you say also ↓ قَطَاةٌ جَوْنَةٌ, with fet-h: (TA:) [but جُونِىٌّ seems to be also used as a n. un., like رُومِىٌّ: for it is said that] جُونٌ is pl. [or rather coll. gen. n.] of جُونىٌّ, like as تَمْرٌ is of تَمْرَةٌ. (Ham p. 605.)