Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The frequent use of the letter n; specifically, the addition of n to a final vowel. Also nunation.
Wiktionary
- n. The addition of a final n-sound to words in some Semitic languages
- n. A speech disorder stammering, in which the ‘’n’’ sound is given to other consonants.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Arabic Gram.) The pronunciation of n at the end of words.
Etymologies
- From Arabic Nun- نون the letter n. (Wiktionary)
Examples
““Tanwin” (nunnation) is pronouncing the vowels of the case-endings of a noun with n un for”
“This nunnation expresses indefiniteness, e.g. “Malikun” = a king, any king.”
“This nunnation expresses indefiniteness, e.g. "Malikun" = a king, any king.”
“Tanwin" (nunnation) is pronouncing the vowels of the case-endings of a noun with n un for u”
“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.”
“Tanwin al-Izafah ma'zul" = the nunnation in construction cast out.”
“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.”
““Tanwin al-Izafah ma’zul” = the nunnation in construction cast out.”
“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.”
“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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phrontistery - n
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nacarat, nacelle, nacket, nacre, nacreous, naevus, naiant, nail, nainsook, naissant, nanism, nanization and 340 more...
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