ن

See also: ں‎

ن - Arabic

Alternative forms

ࢽ‎ – African form; undotted when final

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
(phoneme): IPA: /n/

Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن‎ • (nūn)

The twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by م‎ (m) and followed by ه‎ (h).

Symbol

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن‎ • (nūn)

The fourteenth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by م‎ (m) and followed by س‎ (s).

Suffix

ـنَّ or ـنْ • (-nna or -n)

Suffix marking the short or long energetic mood of a verb that is 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.

Pronoun

نِ • (ni)

Alternative form of نِي‎ (nī)

ن - Balti

Pronunciation

IPA: /n/, [n]

Letter

ن (n)

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

ن - Burushaski

Pronunciation

IPA: /n/, [n]

Letter

ن (n)

The fourtieth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

ن - Kashmiri

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ن • (n)

The thirty-eighth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

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

Usage notes

The nasal sound IPA: /◌̃/ 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.

ن - Kazakh

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
(phoneme): IPA: /n/

Letter

ن • (n)

The twenty-first letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Н.

Forms

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

ن - Malay

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن‎

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

ن - North Levantine Arabic

Suffix

ـن • (-un, -wun, -yun) pl

Alternative spelling of ـهن‎ when not pronounced as “-hun”

ن - Pashto

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /nun/
(phoneme): IPA: /n/

Letter

ن • (nun)

The thirty-sixth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

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

ن - Persian

Pronunciation

Letter name:

IPA: /nuːn/

Phoneme

IPA: /n/
(before: گ, ک) IPA: /ŋ/
(before: ق) IPA: /ɴ/

Letter

ن / نـ / ـنـ / ـن • (nun)

The twenty-ninth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by م‎ and followed by و‎. Its name is نون‎.

Prefix

ن • (n)

نَه‎ as a prefix
(dialectal) A prefix used before personal endings or definite direct object marker (e) to link a pronoun that ends in certain vowels.
- ‏یو موتور مونه.‎‎
  - yo motor mo-n-e.
  - This is my motorcycle.
(dialectal) A prefix used before personal endings or definite direct object marker (e) to link a word that ends in certain vowels.

Usage notes

Some dialects only use this prefix to link a pronoun, while others use this to link any word which ends in certain vowels.

ن - Sindhi

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
(phoneme): IPA: /n/

Letter

ن (nūn)

The forty-eighth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

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

ن - Urdu

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ن • (nūn)

The thirty-second letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

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

ن - Uyghur

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /ne/
(phoneme): IPA: /n/

Letter

ن • (ne)

The twenty-third letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

Forms

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

ن - Yoruba

Pronunciation

(letter name): IPA: /ní/
(phoneme): IPA: /n/

Letter

ن (n)

The fifteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script.

Forms

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