ܢ U+0722, ܢ
SYRIAC LETTER NUN
ܡ
[U+0721]
Syriac ܣ
[U+0723]

Translingual

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Letter

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ܢ

  1. Syriac letter nun

Classical Syriac

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Etymology

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Ultimately from Phoenician 𐤍 (n, nun). Compare Arabic ن (n) and Hebrew נ (n).

Pronunciation

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Letter

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ܢ (n)

  1. nun, fourteenth letter of the Syriac alphabet

Coordinate terms

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  • Previous: ܡ
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Descendants

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  • Old Turkic: 𐰣 ()

See also

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Numeral

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ܢ (50)

  1. number fifty (50)

References

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  • Costaz, Louis (2002) Dictionnaire syriaque-français ∙ Syriac–English Dictionary ∙ قاموس سرياني-عربي, 3rd edition, Beirut: Dar El-Machreq, page 195a
  • Payne Smith, Jessie (1903) A Compendious Syriac Dictionary Founded Upon the Thesaurus Syriacus of R. Payne Smith, D.D., Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 325a
  • Sokoloff, Michael (2009) A Syriac Lexicon: A Translation from the Latin, Correction, Expansion, and Update of C. Brockelmann's Lexicon Syriacum, Winona Lake, Indiana, Piscataway, New Jersey: Eisenbrauns; Gorgias Press, page 882a