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See also: ں, Ů, and ů

ن U+0646, ن
ARABIC LETTER NOON
← م
 		Arabic ه →
ﻥ U+FEE5, ﻥ
ARABIC LETTER NOON ISOLATED FORM
← ﻤ
 		Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻦ →
ﻦ U+FEE6, ﻦ
ARABIC LETTER NOON FINAL FORM
← ﻥ
 		Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻧ →
ﻧ U+FEE7, ﻧ
ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM
← ﻦ
 		Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻨ →
ﻨ U+FEE8, ﻨ
ARABIC LETTER NOON MEDIAL FORM
← ﻧ
 		Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻩ →

Arabic

Alternative forms

  • ࢽ — African form; undotted when final

Pronunciation

Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن • (nūn)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by م (m) and followed by ه (h).

Symbol

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن • (nūn)

  1. The fourteenth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by م (m) and followed by س (s).

Suffix

ـنَّ or ـنْ • (-nna or -n)

  1. Suffix marking the short or long energetic mood of a verb that is preceded by لَ (la).
    لَتَشْرَبَنَّ ٱلْمَاءَ أَوْ تَمُوتَ!
    latašrabanna l-māʔa ʔaw tamūta!
    Indeed, you either drink water or you die.
    لَأُسَاعِدَنَّكُمْ جَمِيعًا!
    laʔusāʕidannakum jamīʕan!
    I'll definitely help all of you.
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:32:
      وَلَئِن لَّمْ يَفْعَلْ مَا آمُرُهُ لَيُسْجَنَنَّ وَلَيَكُونًا مِّنَ الصَّاغِرِينَ
      walaʔin llam yafʕal mā ʔāmuruhu layusjananna walayakūnan mmina ṣ-ṣāḡirīna
      And if he does not do what I order him to, he will certainly be imprisoned and fully disgraced.

Pronoun

نِ • (ni)

  1. Alternative form of نِي (nī)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:80:
      وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِ
      waʔiḏā mariḍtu fahuwa yašfīni
      and when I get sick it is He who cures me

See also

Balti

Pronunciation

Letter

ن (transliteration needed)

  1. The thirty-ninth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Burushaski

Pronunciation

Letter

ن (n)

  1. The fourtieth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /nuːn/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /n/, /◌̃/

Letter

ن • (n)

  1. The thirty-eighth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ن ـن ـنـ نـ

Usage notes

The nasal sound IPA(key): /◌̃/ is represented by ن only when it comes in the middle of a word. If the nasal sound appears at the end of a word, it is represented by ں.

See also

  • Previous letter: م (m)
  • Next letter: و (v)

Kazakh

Alternative scripts
Arabic ن
Cyrillic Н, н
Latin N, n
Yañalif N, n

Pronunciation

Letter

ن • (n)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Н.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ن ـن ـنـ نـ

See also

Malay

Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

Pronunciation

Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

North Levantine Arabic

Suffix

ـن • (-un, -wun, -yun) pl

  1. Alternative spelling of ـهن when not pronounced as “-hun”

Pashto

Pronunciation

Letter

ن • (nun)

  1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ن ـن ـنـ نـ

See also

  • Previous letter: م
  • Next letter: ڼ

Persian

Pronunciation

Letter name:

Phoneme

  • (before dentals) IPA(key):
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Letter

ن / نـ / ـنـ / ـن • (nun)

  1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by م and followed by و. Its name is نون.

Prefix

ن • (n)

  1. نَه as a prefix
  2. (dialectal) A prefix used before personal endings or definite direct object marker (e) to link a pronoun that ends in certain vowels.
    یو موتور مونه.
    yo motor mo-n-e.
    This is my motorcycle.
  3. (dialectal) A prefix used before personal endings or definite direct object marker (e) to link a word that ends in certain vowels.

Usage notes

Some dialects only use this prefix to link a pronoun, while others use this to link any word which ends in certain vowels.

Sindhi

Pronunciation

Letter

ن • (nūn)

  1. The forty-eighth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ن ـن ـنـ نـ

See also

  • Previous letter: م
  • Next letter: ڻ

Urdu

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /nuːn/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /n/, /ɳ/, /ɲ/, /ŋ/

Letter

ن • (nūn)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ن ـن ـنـ نـ

See also

  • Previous letter: م (m)
  • Next letter: ں (̃)

Uyghur

Pronunciation

Letter

ن • (ne)

  1. The twenty-third letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ن ـن ـنـ نـ

See also

  • Previous letter: م (m)
  • Next letter: ھ (h)

Yoruba

Pronunciation

Letter

ن (n)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ن ـن ـنـ نـ

See also

  • Previous letter: م
  • Next letter: وْ
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