न
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TranslingualEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
न (na)
- A letter of the Devanagari alphabet representing the sound /n/.
See alsoEdit
Ligatures:
DhivehiEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
न • (na)
- The third consonant in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari
HindiEdit
Etymology 1Edit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
न • (na)
See alsoEdit
- (Devanagari script letters) अ, आ, इ, ई, उ, ऊ, ऋ, ए, ऐ, ओ, औ, अं, अः, अँ, क, ख, ग, घ, ङ, च, छ, ज, झ, ञ, ट, ठ, ड, ढ, ण, त, थ, द, ध, न, प, फ, ब, भ, म, य, र, ल, व, श, ष, स, ह, त्र, ज्ञ, क्ष, क़, ख़, ग़, ज़, झ़, ड़, ढ़, फ़ (Category: Hindi letters) [edit]
- (with nuqta): ऩ (ṉ)
Etymology 2Edit
Inherited from Sanskrit न (na).
PronunciationEdit
While the second pronunciation is the expected one for the particle, the first, with a long "ā", is more common.
ParticleEdit
Usage notesEdit
न (na) is used in sudden situations, and normally shows alarm. A less urgent alternative is मत (mat).
SynonymsEdit
MarathiEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
न • (na)
NepaliEdit
PronunciationEdit
LetterEdit
न • (na)
PaliEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Alternative forms
ParticleEdit
न
- Devanagari script form of na
AdjectiveEdit
न
- Devanagari script form of na (“that”)
DeclensionEdit
Declension table of "न" (masculine)
Declension table of "ना" (feminine)
Case \ Number | Singular |
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Accusative (second) | नं (naṃ) |
Declension table of "न" (neuter)
PronounEdit
न m
- Devanagari script form of na (“him, it, that”)
DeclensionEdit
Declension table of "न" (masculine)
PronounEdit
न n
- Devanagari script form of na (“it, that”)
DeclensionEdit
RauteEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *ŋa-j ~ ka. Cognate with Chinese 我 (wǒ).
PronounEdit
न (na)
Further readingEdit
- Encounter with the Raute: The Last Hunting Nomads of Nepal (1976)
- ASJP
SanskritEdit
Alternative formsEdit
Alternative scripts
- ᬦ (Balinese script)
- ন (Assamese script)
- ন (Bengali script)
- 𑰡 (Bhaiksuki script)
- 𑀦 (Brahmi script)
- 𑌨 (Grantha script)
- ન (Gujarati script)
- ਨ (Gurmukhi script)
- ꦤ (Javanese script)
- ន (Khmer script)
- ನ (Kannada script)
- ນ (Lao script)
- ന (Malayalam script)
- 𑘡 (Modi script)
- ᠨᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
- ᠨᠠ (Manchu script)
- န (Burmese script)
- 𑧁 (Nandinagari script)
- 𑐣 (Newa script)
- ନ (Oriya script)
- ꢥ (Saurashtra script)
- 𑆤 (Sharada script)
- 𑖡 (Siddham script)
- න (Sinhalese script)
- న (Telugu script)
- น (Thai script)
- ན (Tibetan script)
- 𑒢 (Tirhuta script)
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Indo-Aryan *ná, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ná, from Proto-Indo-European *né. Cognate with Latin ne, English no.
PronunciationEdit
PrefixEdit
न • (ná)
ParticleEdit
न • (ná)
- (when used with an interrogative) no, not, none, no one, nothing, never, etc.
- सा वस्वी न अस्ति॥
- sā́ vásvī ná ásti.
- She is not good.
- (with optative) lest, that not
- (with repetition) absolutely, very much, unequivocally
- like, as, just as, as it were, as if
DescendantsEdit
- Dardic:
- Gawar-Bati: [script needed] (na)
- Indus Kohistani: [script needed] (na)
- Kalami: [script needed] (na)
- Khowar: [script needed] (na), [script needed] (no)
- Kashmiri:
- Kohistani Shina: [script needed] (na)
- Northeast Pashayi: [Term?] (na)
- Northwest Pashayi: [script needed] (na)
- Phalura: [script needed] (na)
- Shina: [script needed] (na)
- Southeast Pashayi: [script needed] (na)
- Southwest Pashayi: [script needed] (na)
- Tirahi: [script needed] (nā)
- Torwali: [script needed] (na)
- Wotapuri-Katarqalai: [script needed] (na)
- Helu Prakrit:
- Magadhi Prakrit: 𑀡 (ṇa), 𑀡𑀸 (ṇā)
- Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀡 (ṇa), 𑀡𑀸 (ṇā)
- Pali: na
- Sauraseni Prakrit: 𑀡 (ṇa), 𑀡𑀸 (ṇā)
ReferencesEdit
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985), “ná”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press