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Etymology [ edit ] From Anglo-Norman noun non nom Latin nōmen “ name ” ).
Pronunciation [ edit ] noun (plural nouns
( grammar ) A word that can be used to refer to a person , animal , place , thing , phenomenon , substance , quality , or idea ; one of the basic parts of speech in many languages, including English .
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terms derived from noun (noun)
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grammatical category
Afrikaans: selfstandige naamwoord (af)
Albanian: emër (sq)
Alemannic German: Substantiv n
Amharic: ስም sm )
Arabic: اسم (ar) m ism )
Aragonese: sustantibo (an) m
Aramaic:
Syriac: ܫܡܐ m šmā’ )
Hebrew: שמא m šmā’ )
Armenian: գոյական goyakan )
Assamese: please add this translation if you can Asturian: sustantivu (ast)
Aymara: please add this translation if you can Azeri: isim (az) , ad (az)
Bashkir: исем isem )
Basque: izen
Bavarian: please add this translation if you can Belarusian: назоўнік (be) m nazóŭnik )
Bengali: বিশেষ্য bisheshya )
Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can Breton: anv-kadarn (br)
Bulgarian: съществително име n sǎštestvítelno íme )
Burmese: နာမ် nam )
Buryat: please add this translation if you can Catalan: substantiu (ca) m
Cebuano: please add this translation if you can Chamorro: please add this translation if you can Chechen: цIердош cIierdoš )
Cherokee: ᏚᏙᎥᎢ dudovi )
Chichewa: please add this translation if you can Chinese:
Cantonese: 名詞 名词 ming4 ci4 )
Mandarin: 名詞 (zh) , 名词 (zh) (míngcí )
Min Nan: 名詞 (zh-min-nan) , 名词 bêng-sû )
Chuvash: япала ячĕ japala jačĕ )
Cornish: hanow m
Corsican: please add this translation if you can Crimean Tatar: ad isim
Czech: podstatné jméno (cs) n substantivum (cs) n
Danish: navneord (da) n substantiv (da) n
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can Dutch: zelfstandig naamwoord (nl) n substantief (nl) n
Dzongkha: please add this translation if you can Esperanto: substantivo (eo)
Estonian: nimisõna (et)
Ewe: nuŋkɔ
Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can Faroese: navnorð
Finnish: substantiivi (fi)
Franco-Provençal: please add this translation if you can French: nom (fr) m substantif (fr) m
Friulian: please add this translation if you can Galician: substantivo
Georgian: არსებითი სახელი (ka) (arsebit’i saxeli ), სახელი saxeli )
German: Substantiv (de) n Nomen (de) n Hauptwort n Dingwort (de) n Gegenstandswort (de) n
Greek: ουσιαστικό (el) n ousiastikó )
Ancient Greek: ὄνομα n ónoma )
Greenlandic: taggit
Gujarati: સંજ્ઞા san̄jña )
Hausa: please add this translation if you can Hawaiian: haʻiinoa
Hebrew: שֵׁם עֶצֶם (he) m shem étsem )
Hindi: संज्ञा m sãṅgyā )
Hungarian: főnév (hu)
Icelandic: nafnorð (is) n
Ido: substantivo (io)
Igbo: please add this translation if you can Indonesian: kata benda (id) , nomina (id)
Interlingua: substantivo
Interlingue: substantive nómine
Irish: ainmfhocal (ga) m
Old Irish: ainmm n
Italian: sostantivo (it) m nome (it) m
Japanese: 名詞 (ja) (めいし, meishí )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can Kannada: ನಾಮಪದ (kn) (nāmapada )
Kashubian: jistnik (csb) m
Kazakh: зат есім zat yesim )
Khmer: នាម (km) (niem )
Kinyarwanda: please add this translation if you can Kirundi: please add this translation if you can Korean: 명사 (ko) (myeongsa ) (名詞 (ko) )
Kurdish:
Sorani: ناو (ku)
Kyrgyz: зат атооч zat atooç )
Lao: ຄຳນາມ (lo) (kʰám náːm )
Latin: nomen (la) n
Latvian: lietvārds (lv) m substantīvs m
Limburgish: zèlfstenjig naamwaord n
Lingala: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: daiktavardis (lt)
Low German:
German Low German: Substantiv (nds)
Luxembourgish: Substantiv n
Macedonian: именка f ímenka )
Malay: kata nama
Malayalam: നാമം (ml) (naamam )
Maltese: nom (mt)
Maori: kupuingoa
Marathi: नाम
Mirandese: please add this translation if you can Mongolian: нэр үг ner üg )
Navajo: yízhí
Nepali: please add this translation if you can Newari: please add this translation if you can Northern Sami: substantiiva
Norwegian: substantiv (no) n
Nynorsk: substantiv (nn)
Novial: substantive
Occitan: nom (oc) m
Okinawan: please add this translation if you can Old English: nama m
Oriya: ବିଶେଷ୍ୟ (or)
Pashto: please add this translation if you can Persian: اسم (fa) (esm )
Polish: rzeczownik (pl) m
Portuguese: substantivo (pt) m
Quechua: sutirimana
Romanian: substantiv (ro) n
Russian: имя существительное (ru) n ímja suščestvítelʹnoje ), существительное (ru) n suščestvítelʹnoje )
Sanskrit: नामन् n nā́man ), नाम nāma )
Scots: noun
Scottish Gaelic: ainmear m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: именица
Roman: imenica f
Sicilian: sustantivu (scn)
Sindhi: please add this translation if you can Sinhalese: නාම පදය nāma padaya ), නාමය nāmaya )
Slovak: podstatné meno (sk) n
Slovene: samostalnik (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: substantiw m
Upper Sorbian: substantiw m
Spanish: sustantivo (es) m substantivo (es) m ( Venezuela ) nombre (es) m
Sundanese: please add this translation if you can Swahili: nomino (sw)
Swazi: libito (ss)
Swedish: substantiv (sv) n nomen (sv) n
Tagalog: pangngalan (tl)
Tajik: исм (tg) (ism ), исм (tg) (ism )
Tamil: பெயர்ச்சொல் (ta) (peyarchchol )
Tatar: исем (tt) (isem )
Telugu: నామవాచకము (te) (nAmavAchakamu )
Thai: นาม (th) (naam ), คำนาม (th) (khahm naam )
Tibetan: please add this translation if you can Tok Pisin: nem bilong samting
Turkish: isim (tr) , ad (tr)
Turkmen: at (tk)
Ukrainian: іменник (uk) m iménnyk )
Urdu: اسم (ur) (ism ), سنجنا m sãṅgyā )
Uzbek: ot (uz) , ism (uz)
Vietnamese: danh từ (vi) (名詞
Volapük: subsat (vo)
Walloon: please add this translation if you can Welsh: enw (cy) m
West Frisian: haadwurd (fy) n
Wolof: please add this translation if you can Xhosa: please add this translation if you can Yiddish: סובסטאַנטיוו n substantiv )
Yoruba: please add this translation if you can Zazaki: please add this translation if you can Zulu: ibizo (zu) class 5 /6
See also [ edit ] noun (third-person singular simple present nouns present participle nouning simple past and past participle nouned
( transitive ) To convert a word to a noun .
1992 , Lewis Acrelius Froman, Language and Power: Books III, IV, and V
For example, that females are different from but equal to males is oxymoronic by virtue of the nouned status of female and male as kinds of persons.
2000 , Andrew J. DuBrin, The complete idiot's guide to leadership
However, too much nouning makes you sound bureaucratic, immature, and verbally challenged. Top executives convert far fewer nouns into verbs than do workers at lower levels.
Translations [ edit ] Anagrams [ edit ] Occitan [ edit ] Alternative forms [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Latin non
noun
( Mistralian ) no
Old French [ edit ] noun m oblique plural nouns nominative singular nouns nominative plural noun
Alternative form of num .
