nun

Pronunciation

• enPR: nŭn, IPA: /nʌn/
• Homophone: none

Noun

nun (plural nuns)

1. A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
   • Synonyms: sister, moniale, sistren
   • Antonyms: brother, friar, monk, frater
2. (by extension) A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
   • a Buddhist nun
3. (archaic, Britain, slang) A prostitute.
   • Synonyms: see prostitute
4. A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

Alternative forms

• noon
• nūn

Noun

nun (plural nuns)

1. The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Pronoun

nun

1. Pronunciation spelling of nothing.

Alternative forms

• ñun (adverb)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnun/, [ˈnũŋ]

Adverb

nun

1. not, no (used to make negatives)

Contraction

nun

1. in a/an (contraction of en + un)

Noun

nún

1. (anatomy) nose

Alternative forms

• non (in older Americanist literature)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nòn/

Noun

nun

1. grave, burial place
2. cache

Noun

nun

1. parent

Pronunciation

• IPA: [nun]
• Hyphenation: nun

Adverb

nun

1. now

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnun/

Adverb

nun

1. Alternative form of non (“no, not”)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnun/, [ˈnun]
• Syllabification: nun

Noun

nun

1. nun (fourteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nuŋ/

Contraction

nun m (feminine nunha, masculine plural nuns, feminine plural nunhas)

1. in a, in one

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nuːn/

Alternative forms

• nu (colloquial; otherwise archaic)

Adverb

nun

1. now, at this moment
2. now, then; expressing a logical or temporal consequence
   • Wir haben abgewaschen, nun müssen wir noch abtrocknen.

     • We've washed up, now we must dry [the dishes].
   • Was bedeuten nun die geschilderten Entwicklungen für unser Land?

     • Now what do the aforementioned developments mean for our country?
3. unstressed and expletive, used for minor emphasis
   • Was soll das nun heißen?

     • What's that supposed to mean now?

Interjection

nun

1. now, well, so
   • Nun, das ist eine schwierige Frage.

     • Well, that's a tough question.

Conjunction

nun

1. (literary or dated colloquial) now that, given that it has occurred that the circumstances do not withstand that …

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nún/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [nɪ́ŋ]

Noun

nun f

1. nun (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nun/

Adverb

nun

1. now, at present, at this time
   • Synonym: nunk (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈnun/
• Hyphenation: nùn

Noun

nun f (invariable)

1. nun, specifically:
   1. the name of the Phoenician-script letter 𐤍
   2. the name of the Hebrew-script letter נ/ן
   3. the name of the Arabic-script letter ن

Noun

nun

1. canoe

Pronoun

nun

1. we

Romanization

nun

1. Nonstandard spelling of nún.
2. Nonstandard spelling of nùn.

Adverb

nun

1. not

Noun

nun m (oblique plural nuns, nominative singular nuns, nominative plural nun)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of nom

Adjective

nun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular nune)

1. Alternative form of negun

Pronoun

nun

1. Alternative form of negun

Alternative forms

• (Arabic) نٌ‎, نُنۡ‎
• (Bengali) নুন
• (Myanmar) နုန်
• (Hanifi) 𐴕𐴟𐴕‎ (nun)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [nun]

Noun

nun

1. salt

Noun

nun m (plural nuni, feminine equivalent nună)

1. the godfather at a wedding

Alternative forms

• non, unn, 'un, nn'

Pronunciation

• IPA: /nun/

Adverb

nun

1. not

Noun

nun

1. bread

Noun

nun

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ن

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Noun

nun (nominative plural nuns)

1. message

Alternative forms

• ñun (used alongside "nun" in Urban Wolof)

Pronoun

nun

1. we (first-person plural subject pronoun)

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ˈnun]
• Hyphenation: nun

Noun

nun

1. Alternative form of nan