nunation
noun/nʌˈneɪ.ʃən/US
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).
- calqued from تَنْوِين
Definitions
In Standard Arabic, The use of a suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical…
In Standard Arabic, The use of a suffix ("-n") signifying a lack of syntactical definiteness of the noun or adjective.
In Akkadian, the use of a suffix ("-n") in dual forms.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for nunation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
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