نون

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Arabic

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

نُون (nūnf (plural نُونَات (nūnāt))

  1. Name of the 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet (ن / ‍ن), representing the sound /n/.
Declension
Descendants
  • Azerbaijani: nun
  • Classical Persian: نُون (nūn)
  • Uzbek: nun

Etymology 2

Deverbative from the letter نُون (nūn).

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /naw.wa.na/

Verb

نَوَّنَ (nawwana) II (non-past يُنَوِّنُ (yunawwinu), verbal noun تَنْوِين (tanwīn))

  1. (grammar) to add nunation to (a word), to nunate (a word)
Conjugation

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Classical Syriac ܢܽܘܢܳܐ (nūnā, fish) as in the Hebrew story of Joshua, son of Nun, ultimately likely from Akkadian 𒄩 (nūnum), possibly from Sumerian.

Pronunciation

Noun

نُون (nūnm (plural نِينَان (nīnān) or أَنْوَان (ʔanwān)) (very rare, obsolete)

  1. The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 21:87:
      وَذَا النُّونِ إِذ ذَّهَبَ مُغٰضِبًا فَظَنَّ أَن لَّن نَّقْدِرَ عَلَيْهِ فَنَادَى فِي الظُّلُمَاتِ أَن لَّا إِلٰهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ سُبْحٰنَكَ إِنِّي كُنْتُ مِنَ الظّٰلِمِينَ
      waḏā n-nūni ʔiḏ ḏahaba muḡāḍiban faẓanna ʔan lan naqdira ʕalayhi fanādā fī ẓ-ẓulumāti ʔan lā ʔilāha ʔillā ʔanta subḥānaka ʔinnī kuntu mina ẓ-ẓālimīna
      And the man of the nūn, when he went off in fury and opined that We would not decree upon him. And he cried in the glooms “there is no god short of You, exalted are You. Indeed I have been of the wrongdoers.”
    1. fish; great fish
    2. a male given name from Hebrew
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Etymology 4

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

Noun

نُون (nūnm (plural نُونَات (nūnāt))

  1. A tradition in Kuwait in celebration of an event in which a person throws candy and money from atop for children and other attendees to collect
Declension

References

  • Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 121
  • Guidi, Ignazio (1879) Della sede primitiva dei popoli semitici (in Italian), Rome: Tipi del Salviucci, pages 27-28
  • Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, page 282
  • Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985) “نون”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 1332

Baluchi

Adverb

نون (annõ)

  1. now
  2. presently
  3. at the present time

See also

Mozarabic

Adverb

نون (nwn /non/)

  1. Alternative spelling of نن (nun, not)
    • c. 1100, Muhammad ibn ʕubada, Kharja A1 :[1][2]
      ان نون شنون كارش
      ʔin NWN Š-NWN KʔRŠ
      /ʔin NÓN, ŠI NON KÉREŠ/
      or else, if you do not want
      (literally, “if not, ”)

References

  1. ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, page 30
  2. ^ Corriente, F. (1993) “Nueva propuesta de lectura de las xarajāt de la serie arabe con texto romance”, in Revista de Filología Española (in Spanish), volume LXXIII, number 1/2, page 27

Persian

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? nūn
Dari reading? nūn
Iranian reading? nun
Tajik reading? nun

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *nu (now).

Adverb

نون (nun)

  1. (archaic, poetic) now

Etymology 2

Noun

نون (nun) (plural نون‌ها (nun-hâ))

  1. The name of the Perso-Arabic script letter ن.

Etymology 3

Noun

نون (nun) (plural نون‌ها (nun-hâ))

  1. (Iran, colloquial-un) Spoken form of نان (nân).