nunation
English
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editEtymology
editFrom 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
editNoun
editnunation (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.
Synonyms
editTranslations
editsuffix in Arabic
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References
edit- ^ “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
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- English terms suffixed with -ation
- English terms calqued from Arabic
- English terms derived from Arabic
- English terms derived from the Arabic root ن و ن
- English 3-syllable words
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- English nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- en:Semitic linguistics