ن

See also: نـ, ں, ـن, Ů, and ů

ن U+0646, ن ARABIC LETTER NOON ← م [U+0645] Arabic ه → [U+0647]

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
ن	ـن	ـنـ	نـ

ﻥ U+FEE5, ﻥ ARABIC LETTER NOON ISOLATED FORM ← ﻤ [U+FEE4] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻦ → [U+FEE6]

ﻦ U+FEE6, ﻦ ARABIC LETTER NOON FINAL FORM ← ﻥ [U+FEE5] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻧ → [U+FEE7]

ﻧ U+FEE7, ﻧ ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM ← ﻦ [U+FEE6] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻨ → [U+FEE8]

ﻨ U+FEE8, ﻨ ARABIC LETTER NOON MEDIAL FORM ← ﻧ [U+FEE7] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻩ → [U+FEE9]

Acehnese

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [nun]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [n]

Letter

ن (nun)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Acehnese alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

• Arabic script letters: حرف (haraih, harah) (script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ ^[edit]

Arabic

Alternative forms

• ࢽ — African form; undotted when final

Etymology

From the Nabataean letter 𐢕 (l, “nun”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤍 (l, “nun”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓆓. See also Classical Syriac ܢ (l, “nun”), Hebrew נ (l, “nun”), Ancient Greek Ν (N), Latin N.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (letter name) /nuːn/, (phoneme) /n/

Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن • (nūn)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م (m) and followed by ه (h).

Symbol

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن • (nūn)

1. The fourteenth numeral symbol of the Arabic alphabet (traditional abjad order, used for list numbering), written in the Arabic script; preceded by م (m) and followed by س (s).

Suffix

ـنَّ or ـنْ • (-nna or -n)

1. Suffix marking the short or long energetic mood of a verb that is often preceded by لَ (la).

   لَتَشْرَبَنَّ ٱلْمَاءَ أَوْ تَمُوتَ!

   latašrabanna l-māʔa ʔaw tamūta!

   Indeed, you either drink water or you die.

   لَأُسَاعِدَنَّكُمْ جَمِيعًا!

   laʔusāʕidannakum jamīʕan!

   I'll definitely help all of you.

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:32:

     وَلَئِن لَّمْ يَفْعَلْ مَا آمُرُهُ لَيُسْجَنَنَّ وَلَيَكُونًا مِّنَ الصَّاغِرِينَ

     walaʔin lam yafʕal mā ʔāmuruhu layusjananna walayakūnan mina ṣ-ṣāḡirīna

     And if he does not do what I order him to, he will certainly be imprisoned and fully disgraced.

Usage notes

• This suffix can be appended to the present or imperative stem.
• If appended to the present stem, it is can no longer differentiate between the indicative, subjunctive and jussive mood.
• The longer form (ـنَّ) has stronger meaning, but not all grammatical persons can form both forms.
• Example of the energetic forms of فَعَلَ (faʕala):
  • Present:
    أَنَا أَفْعَلَنْ/أَفْعَلَنَّ – أَنْتَ تَفْعَلَنْ/تَفْعَلَنَّ – أَنْتِ تَفْعَلِنْ/تَفْعَلِنَّ – هُوَ يَفْعَلَنْ/يَفْعَلَنَّ – هِيَ تَفْعَلَنْ/تَفْعَلَنَّ – أَنْتُمَا تَفْعَلَانِّ – هُمَا يَفْعَلَانِّ – هُمَا تَفْعَلَانِّ – نَحْنُ نَفْعَلَنْ/نَفْعَلَنَّ – أَنْتُمْ تَفْعَلُنْ/تَفْعَلُنَّ – أَنْتُنَّ تَفْعَلْنَانِّ – هُمْ يَفْعَلُنْ/يَفْعَلُنَّ – هُنَّ يَفْعَلْنَانِّ
  • Imperative:
    اِفْعَلَنْ/اِفْعَلَنَّ – اِفْعَلِنْ/اِفْعَلِنَّ – اِفْعَلَانِّ – اِفْعَلُنْ/اِفْعَلُنَّ – اِفْعَلْنَانِّ

Pronoun

نِ • (ni)

1. alternative form of نِي (nī)
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:80:

     وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِ

     wa-ʔiḏā mariḍtu fa-huwa yašfīni

     and when I get sick it is He who cures me

See also

• Arabic script letters: حُرُوف (ḥurūf) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي ^[edit]
• Wikipedia article on the Arabic alphabet
• Search for entries beginning with ن

• ـً (-an)
• ـٌ (-un)
• ـٍ (-in)

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n/, [n]

Letter

ن (transliteration needed)

1. The thirty-ninth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Burushaski

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n/, [n]

Letter

ن (n)

1. The fortieth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Egyptian Arabic

Etymology 1

• From Arabic ن (n). The letter's name comes from Ottoman Turkish نون (nun) or a Learned borrowing from Arabic نُون (nūn)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (n)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Egyptian Arabic alphabet, called نون (nūn) and written in the Arabic script.

See also

• Arabic script letters: حروف (script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي ^[edit]

Etymology 2

Inherited from Arabic نَـ (na-).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ni/, (after a vowel) /n/

Prefix

نِـ • (ni-)

1. Forms first-person plural forms of present-tense verbs.

   ‎نـ + ‎اكتب (aktib, “I write”) → ‎نكتب (niktib, “we write”)

2. alternative form of ا- (a-, first-person singular present-tense conjugating prefix)

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/, /◌̃/

Letter

ن • (n)

1. The thirty-eighth letter of the Kashmiri alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م and followed by و.

Usage notes

The nasal sound IPA^(key): /◌̃/ is represented by ن only when it comes in the middle of a word. If the nasal sound appears at the end of a word, it is represented by ں.

Kazakh

Alternative scripts

Arabic	ن
Cyrillic	Н, н
Latin	N, n

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (n) (Cyrillic equivalent Н or н)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Kazakh alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م (m) and followed by ە (e).

See also

• Arabic script letters: әріптер (äripter) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ج, چ, ح, د, ر, ز, س, ش, ع, ف, ق, ك, گ, ڭ, ل, م, ن, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي ^[edit]

Malay

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [non]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [n]

Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

• Arabic script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ ^[edit]

North Levantine Arabic

Etymology 1

Possibly generalized from the sole example of تكسلن (tkaslan, “to act lazy”). Though originally derived from كسلان (kaslān, kislān, “lazy”), its root is identifiably ك س ل (k s l) owing to the adjective's morphology and perhaps knowledge of other terms like كَسَل (kasal, “laziness”), so the verb could have divorced itself from the adjective and had its ـن (-n) metanalyzed as a pejorative verbal root extension.

(Other ‘primary’ examples obtain, like بهسان (bahsān, bihsān, “layabout, lethargic person”) yielding تبهسن (tbahsan, “to act lethargic, lazy”), but none are as frequent as تكسلن (tkaslan, “to act lazy”).)

Suffix

ـن • (n)

1. Extension for triliteral roots that creates typically pejorative verbs and verbal nouns: فَعْلَن (faʕlan; CaCCan)

Derived terms

• تحمرن (tḥamran, “to act like a dumbass”)
• تسطلن (tsaṭlan, “to act blockheaded”)
• تكلبن (tkalban, “to act selfish, greedy, with cowardice”)
• تلأمن (tlaʔman, “to be vindictive, vicious”)
• تموضن (tmawḍan, tmōḍan, “to act trendy”)
• تهبلن (thablan, “to act like an idiot”)
• تهضمن (thaḍman, “to act cutesy”)
• دبشنة (dabšane, “rude, oafish behavior”)

Etymology 2

Suffix

ـن • (-un, -wun, -yun) pl

1. alternative spelling of ـهن when not pronounced as “-hun”

Old Ruthenian

Letter

ن • (n) (Middle Belarusian Arabica)

1. A letter of the Old Ruthenian alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

• Arabic script letters (script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ث, ج, چ, ح, د, ࢮ, ر, ز, ژ, ش, ࢯ, ص, ض, ط, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي (خ, ذ, ڛ, س, ظ, ع, ء) ^[edit]

Ottoman Turkish

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ˈnuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Etymology 1

From Arabic ن (nūn).

Letter

ن / نـ / ـنـ / ـن • (nun)

1. The thirtieth letter of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet, called نون (nun) and written in the Arabic script; preceded by م and followed by و.

Etymology 2

Noun

ن • (ramazan)

1. abbreviation of رمضان (“Ramadan”)

See also

• Arabic script letters (script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, ژ, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, گ, ڭ, ل, م, ن, و, ه, ی, ء ^[edit]

Pashto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nun/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (nun)

1. The thirty-sixth letter of the Pashto alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م and followed by ڼ.

Persian

Pronunciation

(letter name)

• IPA^(key): /nuːn/

(phoneme)

• IPA^(key): /n/
• (before velars) IPA^(key): [ŋ]
• (before uvulars) IPA^(key): [ɴ]
• (before labials) IPA^(key): [m]
• (before dentals) IPA^(key): [n̪]

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Letter

ن / نـ / ـنـ / ـن • (nun)

1. The twenty-ninth letter of the Persian alphabet, called نون and written in the Arabic script; preceded by م and followed by و.

Punjabi

Alternative forms

• Gurmukhi letter: ਨ (nannā)
• (letter name): نُون (nūn)

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/, [n̪]

Letter

ن • (nūn)

1. The thirty-third letter of the Punjabi alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م (mīm) and followed by ݨ (aṇūn).

See also

• Shahmukhi script letters: اکّھر (script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ٹ, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ڈ, ذ, ر, ڑ, ز, ژ, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ک, گ, ل, ࣇ, م, ن, ݨ, ں, ہ, و, ی, ے ^[edit]

• Shahmukhi script vowels (script appendix): آ, ا, ع, و, ء, ی, ے ^[edit]

• Shahmukhi script diacritics (script appendix): ◌َ, ◌ِ, ◌ُ, ◌ّ, ◌ْ, ◌٘, ◌ٰ, ◌ً ^[edit]

Sindhi

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (nūn) (Devanagari equivalent न, Khudabadi equivalent 𑋑)

1. The forty-seventh letter of the Sindhi alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م (m) and followed by ڻ (ṇ).

See also

• Arabic script letters: اَکَرَ (akhara) (script appendix): ا, ب, ٻ, ڀ, ت, ٿ, ٽ, ٺ, ث, پ, ج, ڄ, جھ, ڃ, چ, ڇ, ح, خ, د, ڌ, ڏ, ڊ, ڍ, ذ, ر, ڙ, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ڦ, ق, ڪ, ک, گ, ڳ, گھ, ڱ, ل, م, ن, ڻ, و, ه, ء, ي ^[edit]

Tunisian Arabic

Etymology

Alteration of an earlier *ل (*l) as in Maltese -il, in turn a sporadic alteration of the ـَر (-ar) of Arabic عَشَر (ʕašar, “-teen”). This ـَر (-ar) disappeared across dialects from 'standalone' teens sooner than on teens used attributively/in construct state; compare South Levantine Arabic خمستعش (ḵamstaʕš, “fifteen”) but خمستعشر كتاب (ḵamstaʕšar ktāb, “fifteen books”).

The ultimate alteration to ن (n) could reflect leveling to subsequent ـِين (-īn, “-ty”).

Particle

ن (n)

1. suffixed on numbers actively enumerating items whose remainders, when divided by 100, happen to be $\in$ [11,19]

   خمَستَاشنِ كتِاب ― ḵmastāš-ne-ktēb ― fifteen books

   ميِة وسبَعتَاشنِ كتِاب ― mye wsbaʕtāš-ne-ktēb ― A hundred and seventeen books

   اَلفِين ومِيتِين واَربَعتَاشنِ كتِاب

   alfīn w-mitīn w-arbaʕtāš-ne-ktēb

   Two thousand, two hundred and forteen books

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /nuːn/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/, /ɳ/, /ɲ/, /ŋ/

Letter

ن • (nūn)

1. The thirty-second letter of the Urdu alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م and followed by ں.

Uyghur

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ne/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن • (ne)

1. The twenty-third letter of the Uyghur alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م (m) and followed by ھ (h).

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /ní/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /n/

Letter

ن (transliteration needed) (Latin equivalent N or n)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by م and followed by وْ.