nunation

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Etymology

From nun (“Semitic letter”) +‎ -ation, after Arabic تَنْوِين (tanwīn), verbal noun of نَوَّنَ (nawwana, literally “to nunate, nunify”), derived from the letter name نُون (nūn).

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Noun

nunation (countable and uncountable, plural nunations)

  1. In Standard Arabic, The use of a suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical definiteness of the noun or adjective.[1]
    Synonym: tanwin
  2. In Akkadian, the use of a suffix ("-n") in dual forms.

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References

  1. ^ Abboud, Peter F.; Ernest N. McCarus; et al. (1983), Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 1: Pronunciation and Writing; Lessons 1-30, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 110-111

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