nunation

English

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nunation

Examples
نَهْرٌ (nahrun, “a river”) مَلِكٌ (malikun, “a king”)

Alternative forms

nunnation

Etymology

From nun (“Semitic letter”) +‎ -ation, after Arabic تَنْوِين (tanwīn), verbal noun of نَوَّنَ (nawwana, literally “to nunate, nunify”), derived from the letter name نُون (nūn).

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /nʌˈneɪ.ʃən/
Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Hyphenation: nun‧a‧tion

Noun

nunation (countable and uncountable, plural nunations)

In Standard Arabic, The use of a suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical definiteness of the noun or adjective.^[1]
Synonym: tanwin
In Akkadian, the use of a suffix ("-n") in dual forms.

Translations

suffix in Arabic — see also tanwin

Arabic: تَنْوِين m (tanwīn)
French: nunation (fr) f
German: Nunation f, Nunierung f
Portuguese: nunação f
Russian: танви́н (ru) m (tanvín), нуна́ция (ru) f (nunácija)
Spanish: nunación f
Turkish: nunlama (tr)

References

^ Abboud, Peter F.; Ernest N. McCarus; et al. (1983), Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 1: Pronunciation and Writing; Lessons 1-30, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 110-111

“nunation”, in Collins English Dictionary.
“nunation”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
“nunnation”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
“nunation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
“nunation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
“nunation, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

[1] Abboud, Peter F.; Ernest N. McCarus; et al. (1983), Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 1: Pronunciation and Writing; Lessons 1-30, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 110-111

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