Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The frequent use of the letter n; specifically, the addition of n to a final vowel. Also
nunation .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Arabic Gram.) The pronunciation of n at the end of words.
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- noun The addition of a final n-sound to words in some
Semitic languages - noun A speech disorder
stammering , in which the ‘’n’’ sound is given to other consonants.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Tanwin” (nunnation) is pronouncing the vowels of the case-endings of a noun with n un for
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This nunnation expresses indefiniteness, e.g. “Malikun” = a king, any king.
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"Tanwin" (nunnation) is pronouncing the vowels of the case-endings of a noun with n un for u
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Thus whilst the wife and the lover were conjoined as much as might be, the hocussed and sleeping husband was dismissed (ma'zul = degraded) like a nunnation dropped in construction.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"Tanwin al-Izafah ma'zul" = the nunnation in construction cast out.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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This nunnation expresses indefiniteness, e.g. "Malikun" = a king, any king.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The purest speakers are still the Badawin who are often not understood by the citizen-folk (e.g. of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad) at whose gates they tent; and a few classes like the Banú Fahim of Al-Hijáz still converse sub-classically, ever and anon using the terminal vowels and the nunnation elsewhere obsolete.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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“Tanwin al-Izafah ma’zul” = the nunnation in construction cast out.
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Thus whilst the wife and the lover were conjoined as much as might be, the hocussed and sleeping husband was dismissed (ma’zul = degraded) like a nunnation dropped in construction.
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In construction or regimen (izafah) the nunnation must also disappear, as Maliku ‘I-Hind) = the King of Hind (a King of Hind would be Malikun min Muluki ‘I-Hind) = a King from amongst the Kings of Hind).
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