nunation
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Etymology edit
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”).
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Noun edit
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 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