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nunation

nunation

English

Alternative forms

nunnation

Noun

nunation ‎(plural nunations)

(grammar) 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”)

Translations

nunation (tanwīn)

Arabic: تَنْوِين m ‎(tanwīn)
French: tanwīn m, nunation f
German: Nunation f
Japanese: タンウィーン ‎(tanwīn)

Persian: تنوین (fa) ‎(tanvin)
Russian: танви́н m ‎(tanvín), нуна́ция f ‎(nunácija)
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, p. 110-1. ISBN 0-521-27295-5.