nunation

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Alternative forms

nunnation

Etymology

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”).

Pronunciation

(UK, US)^[1]^[2] IPA^(key): /nʌˈneɪʃn̩/
IPA^(key): /nʌˈneɪʃən/

Noun

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]
نَهْرٌ (nahr-un, “a river”)

مَلِكٌ (malik-un, “a king”)
The use of a suffix ("-n") in dual forms in Akkadian.

Synonyms

tanwin

Translations

suffix in Arabic

Arabic: تَنْوِين m (tanwīn)
French: tanwīn m, nunation (fr) f
German: Nunation f, Nunierung f
Japanese: タンウィーン (tanwīn)
Persian: تنوین (fa) (tanvin)
Portuguese: nunação f
Russian: танви́н (ru) m (tanvín), нуна́ция (ru) f (nunácija)
Spanish: nunación f
Tajik: танвин (tanvin)
Turkish: nunlama (tr)
Uzbek: tanvin (uz)

References

^ “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

[1] “nunation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

[2] “nunation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022. (US pronunciation)

[3] 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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