nunation
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English
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Etymology
From nun + -ation, after Arabic تَنْوِين (tanwīn), verbal noun of نَوَّنَ (nawwana, literally “to nunate, nunify”), derived from the letter name نُون (nūn). See nun (“Semitic letter”).
Pronunciation
Noun
nunation (countable and uncountable, plural nunations)
- The use of a suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical definiteness of the noun or adjective in standard Arabic. It is written as a diacritic over the final letter.[3]
- The use of a suffix ("-n") in dual forms in Akkadian.
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suffix in Arabic
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References
- ^ “nunation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- ^ “nunation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. (US pronunciation)
- ^ Abboud, Peter F., Ernest N. McCarus, et al. (1983): Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 1: Pronunciation and Writing; Lessons 1-30, Cambridge University Press, p. 110-1. →ISBN