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nunationnoun
A suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical definiteness of the noun or adjective in standard Arabic. It is written as a diacritic over the final letter.
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Nunation
Nunation (Arabic: تَنوِين, tanwīn ), in some Semitic languages such as Literary Arabic, is the addition of one of three vowel diacritics (ḥarakāt) to a noun or adjective. This is used to indicate the word ends in an alveolar nasal without the addition of the letter nūn. The noun phrase is fully declinable and syntactically unmarked for definiteness, identifiable in speech.
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Nunation
In some Semitic languages, notably Arabic, nunation is the addition of a final nūn sound to a noun or adjective to indicate that it is fully declinable and syntactically unmarked for definiteness. There are three of these vowel diacritics, and the signs indicate, from left to right, the endings -un, -in, and -an. The sign ـً is most commonly written in combination with ا alif, ةً or stand-alone ءً. An alif should always be written unless the word ends in tā’ marbūṭah or hamzah or is a diptote, even though the -un, -an or -in is not written. Nunation is used only in literary Arabic; it is absent in everyday spoken Arabic, and many Arabic textbooks introduce even literary Arabic without these endings. Since Arabic has no indefinite article, nouns in a syntactic context unmarked for definiteness are generally indefinite; this has led to the extremely common but inaccurate belief that nunation is a marker for indefiniteness and is analogous to an indefinite article. The lack of a marker for definiteness does not necessarily make a word indefinite; in fact, many definite nouns take nunation, as for example in the expression أشهد أن محمداً رسول الله, in which the name Muḥammad, a definite noun, is nunated.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of nunation in Chaldean Numerology is: 7
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of nunation in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
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