nunation

English

Alternative forms

• nunnation

Etymology

nun +‎ -ation. See nun (“Semitic letter”).

Noun

nunation (plural nunations)

1. (linguistics) 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.

   نَهْرٌ (nahr-un, “a river”)

   مَلِكٌ (malik-un, “a king”)

2. (linguistics) The use of a suffix ("-n") in dual forms in Akkadian.

Translations

suffix in Arabic

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

References

• 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.