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).

  1. calqued from تَنْوِين

Definitions

  1. 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.

  2. 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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