ن

See also: نـ, ں, Ů, and ů

ن U+0646, ن ARABIC LETTER NOON ← م [U+0645] Arabic ه → [U+0647]

ﻥ U+FEE5, ﻥ ARABIC LETTER NOON ISOLATED FORM ← ﻤ [U+FEE4] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻦ → [U+FEE6]

ﻦ U+FEE6, ﻦ ARABIC LETTER NOON FINAL FORM ← ﻥ [U+FEE5] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻧ → [U+FEE7]

ﻧ U+FEE7, ﻧ ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM ← ﻦ [U+FEE6] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻨ → [U+FEE8]

ﻨ U+FEE8, ﻨ ARABIC LETTER NOON MEDIAL FORM ← ﻧ [U+FEE7] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻩ → [U+FEE9]

Acehnese

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [nun]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [n]

Letter

ن (nun)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Acehnese alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Arabic script letters: حرف (haraih, harah) (script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ ^[edit]

Arabic

Alternative forms

• ࢽ — African form; undotted when final

Etymology

From the Nabataean letter 𐢕 (l, “nun”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤍 (l, “nun”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓆓. See also Classical Syriac ܢ (l, “nun”), Hebrew נ (l, “nun”), Ancient Greek Ν (N), Latin N.

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن • (nūn)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by م (m) and followed by ه (h).

Symbol

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن • (nūn)

1. The fourteenth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by م (m) and followed by س (s).

Suffix

ـنَّ or ـنْ • (-nna or -n)

1. Suffix marking the short or long energetic mood of a verb that is often preceded by لَ (la).

   لَتَشْرَبَنَّ ٱلْمَاءَ أَوْ تَمُوتَ!

   latašrabanna l-māʔa ʔaw tamūta!

   Indeed, you either drink water or you die.

   لَأُسَاعِدَنَّكُمْ جَمِيعًا!

   laʔusāʕidannakum jamīʕan!

   I'll definitely help all of you.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:32:

     وَلَئِن لَّمْ يَفْعَلْ مَا آمُرُهُ لَيُسْجَنَنَّ وَلَيَكُونًا مِّنَ الصَّاغِرِينَ

     walaʔin lam yafʕal mā ʔāmuruhu layusjananna walayakūnan mina ṣ-ṣāḡirīna

     And if he does not do what I order him to, he will certainly be imprisoned and fully disgraced.

Usage notes

• This suffix can be appended to the present or imperative stem.
• If appended to the present stem, it is can no longer differentiate between the indicative, subjunctive and jussive mood.
• The longer form (ـنَّ) has stronger meaning, but not all grammatical persons can form both forms.
• Example of the energetic forms of فَعَلَ (faʕala):
  • Present:
    أَنَا أَفْعَلَنْ/أَفْعَلَنَّ – أَنْتَ تَفْعَلَنْ/تَفْعَلَنَّ – أَنْتِ تَفْعَلِنْ/تَفْعَلِنَّ – هُوَ يَفْعَلَنْ/يَفْعَلَنَّ – هِيَ تَفْعَلَنْ/تَفْعَلَنَّ – أَنْتُمَا تَفْعَلَانِّ – هُمَا يَفْعَلَانِّ – هُمَا تَفْعَلَانِّ – نَحْنُ نَفْعَلَنْ/نَفْعَلَنَّ – أَنْتُمْ تَفْعَلُنْ/تَفْعَلُنَّ – أَنْتُنَّ تَفْعَلْنَانِّ – هُمْ يَفْعَلُنْ/يَفْعَلُنَّ – هُنَّ يَفْعَلْنَانِّ
  • Imperative:
    اِفْعَلَنْ/اِفْعَلَنَّ – اِفْعَلِنْ/اِفْعَلِنَّ – اِفْعَلَانِّ – اِفْعَلُنْ/اِفْعَلُنَّ – اِفْعَلْنَانِّ

Pronoun

نِ • (ni)

1. alternative form of نِي (nī)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:80:

     وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِ

     wa-ʔiḏā mariḍtu fa-huwa yašfīni

     and when I get sick it is He who cures me

See also

• Arabic script letters: حُرُوف (ḥurūf) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي ^[edit]
• Wikipedia article on the Arabic alphabet
• Search for entries beginning with ن

• ـً (-an)
• ـٌ (-un)
• ـٍ (-in)

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n/, [n]

Letter

ن (transliteration needed)

1. The thirty-ninth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Burushaski

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n/, [n]

Letter

ن (n)

1. The fortieth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology 1

From Arabic ن (n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n/
  • IPA^(key): [n]
  • IPA^(key): [ŋ] (before [k], [ɡ])
  • IPA^(key): [ɴ] (before [q])

Letter

ن • (n)

1. The twenty-fifth letter in the Hija'i order, named نون (nūn).

Etymology 2

From Arabic نَـ (na-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni/, (after a vowel) /n/

Prefix

نِـ • (ni-)

1. Froms first-person plural forms of present-tense verbs.

   ‎نـ + ‎اكتب (aktib, “I write”) → ‎نكتب (niktib, “we write”)

2. alternative form of ا- (a-, first-person singular present-tense conjugating prefix)

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/, /◌̃/

Letter

ن • (n)

1. The thirty-eighth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

Usage notes

The nasal sound IPA^(key): /◌̃/ is represented by ن only when it comes in the middle of a word. If the nasal sound appears at the end of a word, it is represented by ں.

See also

• Previous letter: م (m)
• Next letter: و (v)

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	ن
Cyrillic	Н, н
Latin	N, n

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (n)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Н.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Previous letter: م
• Next letter: ە

• Arabic script letters: әріптер (ärıpter) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ج, چ, ح, د, ر, ز, س, ش, ع, ف, ق, ك, گ, ڭ, ل, م, ن, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي ^[edit]

Malay

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [non]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [n]

Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

• Arabic script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ ^[edit]

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

From the ن that was part of already-pejorative terms like the below, which produced verbs meaning "to act like a..." that naturally ended in ن:

• كسلان (kaslān, kislān, “lazy”): تكسلن (tkaslan)
• شيطان (šayṭān, “Satan”): تشيطن (tšayṭan, “to act wicked, diabolical”)
• ملعون (malʕūn, “conniving, despicable”, literally “cursed”): تملعن (tmalʕan)
• بهسان (bahsān, bihsān, “layabout”): تبهسن (tbahsan)
• Possibly زعران (zuʕrān, “scoundrels”, plural of أزعر (ʔazʕar)): تزعرن (tzaʕran)

The ن that made it into verbs like these was then reanalyzed as a specifically verbal root extension and used productively on other triliteral roots.

Suffix

ـن • (n)

1. Extension for triliteral roots that creates typically pejorative verbs and verbal nouns: فَعْلَن (faʕlan; CaCCan)

Derived terms

• تحمرن (tḥamran, “to act like a dumbass”)
• تسطلن (tsaṭlan, “to act blockheaded”)
• تكلبن (tkalban, “to act selfish, greedy, with cowardice”)
• تلأمن (tlaʔman, “to be vindictive, vicious”)
• تموضن (tmawḍan, tmōḍan, “to act trendy”)
• تهبلن (thablan, “to act like an idiot”)
• تهضمن (thaḍman, “to act cutesy”)
• دبشنة (dabšane, “rude, oafish behavior”)

Etymology 2

Suffix

ـن • (-un, -wun, -yun) pl

1. alternative spelling of ـهن when not pronounced as “-hun”

Old Ruthenian

Letter

ن • (n)

1. (Middle Belarusian Arabica) The letter of the Old Ruthenian alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Arabic script letters (script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ث, ج, چ, ح, د, ࢮ, ر, ز, ژ, ش, ࢯ, ص, ض, ط, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي (خ, ذ, ڛ, س, ظ, ء) ^[edit]

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology 1

Letter

ن • (nun)

1. A letter of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.

Etymology 2

Noun

ن • (ramazan)

1. abbreviation of رمضان (“Ramadan”)

Pashto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nun/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (nun)

1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Previous letter: م
• Next letter: ڼ

Persian

Pronunciation

(letter name)

• IPA^(key): /nuːn/

(phoneme)

• IPA^(key): /n/
• (before velars) IPA^(key): [ŋ]
• (before uvulars) IPA^(key): [ɴ]
• (before labials) IPA^(key): [m]
• (before dentals) IPA^(key): [n̪]

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Letter

ن / نـ / ـنـ / ـن • (nun)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by م and followed by و. Its name is نون.

Punjabi

Alternative forms

• Gurmukhi letter: ਨ (nannā)
• (letter name): نُون (nūn)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/, [n̪]

Letter

ن • (nūn)

1. The thirty-third letter of Punjabi in the Shahmukhi script.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Previous letter: م (mīm)
• Next letter: ݨ (aṇūn)

• Shahmukhi script letters: اکّھر (script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ٹ, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ڈ, ذ, ر, ڑ, ز, ژ, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ک, گ, ل, ࣇ, م, ن, ݨ, ں, ہ, و, ی, ے ^[edit]

• Shahmukhi script vowels (script appendix): آ, ا, ع, و, ء, ی, ے ^[edit]

• Shahmukhi script diacritics (script appendix): ◌َ, ◌ِ, ◌ُ, ◌ّ, ◌ْ, ◌٘, ◌ٰ, ◌ً ^[edit]

Sindhi

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (nūn)

1. The forty-eighth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Arabic script letters: اکر (akharu) (script appendix): ا, ب, ٻ, ڀ, ت, ٿ, ٽ, ٺ, ث, پ, ج, ڄ, جھ, ڃ, چ, ڇ, ح, خ, د, ڌ, ڏ, ڊ, ڍ, ذ, ر, ڙ, ڙھ, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ڦ, ق, ڪ, ک, گ, ڳ, گھ, ڱ, ل, م, ن, ڻ, و, ه, ء, ي ^[edit]
• Previous letter: م
• Next letter: ڻ

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/, /ɳ/, /ɲ/, /ŋ/

Letter

ن • (nūn)

1. The thirty-second letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Previous letter: م (m)
• Next letter: ں (̃)

Uyghur

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ne/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (ne)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Previous letter: م (m)
• Next letter: ھ (h)

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ní/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن (n)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

See also

• Previous letter: م
• Next letter: وْ