"nunation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /nʌˈneɪʃn̩/ [UK, US], /nʌˈneɪʃən/ Forms: nunations [plural]
Etymology: From nun + -ation, after Arabic تَنْوِين (tanwīn), verbal noun of نَوَّنَ (nawwana, literally “to nunate, nunify”), derived from the letter name نُون (nūn). See nun (“Semitic letter”). Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|nun|ation}} nun + -ation, {{cal|en|ar|تَنْوِين|notext=1}} Arabic تَنْوِين (tanwīn), {{m|ar|نَوَّنَ|lit=to nunate, nunify}} نَوَّنَ (nawwana, literally “to nunate, nunify”), {{m|ar|نُون}} نُون (nūn), {{m|en|nun||Semitic letter}} nun (“Semitic letter”), {{root|en|ar|ن و ن}} Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} nunation (countable and uncountable, plural nunations)
  1. The use of 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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Semitic linguistics Translations (suffix in Arabic): تَنْوِين (tanwīn) [masculine] (Arabic), tanwīn [masculine] (French), nunation [feminine] (French), Nunation [feminine] (German), Nunierung [feminine] (German), タンウィーン (tanwīn) (Japanese), تنوین (tanvin) (Persian), nunação [feminine] (Portuguese), танви́н (tanvín) [masculine] (Russian), нуна́ция (nunácija) [feminine] (Russian), nunación [feminine] (Spanish), танвин (tanvin) (Tajik), nunlama (Turkish), tanvin (Uzbek)
    Sense id: en-nunation-en-noun-9c1dKdrC Disambiguation of Semitic linguistics: 56 44 Categories (other): Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ation Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ation: 62 38 Disambiguation of 'suffix in Arabic': 68 32
  2. The use of a suffix ("-n") in dual forms in Akkadian. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-nunation-en-noun-pw2ytnwj
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: tanwin, nunnation

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Alternative forms

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