nun
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forAnong.
FromMiddle Englishnonne,nunne, fromOld Englishnunne(“nun”), fromLate Latinnonna(“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine formnonnus(“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent ofnana, likepapa etc.Doublet ofnonna.
nun (pluralnuns)
- A member of aChristian religious community of women who live by certainvows and usually wear ahabit,(Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in acloister.
- Synonyms:sister,moniale,sistren,cloistress
- Antonyms:brother,friar,monk,frater
1988,Tsitsi Dangarembga,Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page258:Thus, when thenuns came to the mission and we saw that instead of murmuring soft blessings and gliding seraphically over the grass in diaphanous habits, they wore smart blouses and skirts and walked, laughed and talked in low twanging tones very much like our own American missionaries did, we were very disappointed.
- (by extension) A member of a similar female community in otherconfessions.
a Buddhistnun
- (archaic, British, slang) Aprostitute.[1]
- Synonyms:seeThesaurus:prostitute
1770,Samuel Foote,The Lame Lover, a Comedy in Three Acts. […], London: […] Paul Vaillant; and sold byP[eter] Elmsly […]; and Robinson and Roberts, […],→OCLC, Act I,page12:Why laſt night, as Colonel Kill'em, Sir William Weezy, Lord Frederick Foretop, and I were careleſsly ſliding the Ranelagh round, picking our teeth, after a damn'd muzzy dinner at Boodle's, who ſhould trip by but an abbeſs, well known about town, with a ſmart littlenun in her ſuite.
1881,Pierce Egan, chapter 8, inLife in London[1], page205:"I mean to inform you," answered theOxonian, with a grin on his face, "that those three nymphs, who have so much dazzled your optics, are threenuns, and the plump female isMother .... of great notoriety [...]"
- A kind ofpigeon with thefeathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
- InRoman Catholicism, a distinction is often drawn, especially by members of femalereligious orders, between nuns and sisters, the former being cloistered and devoted primarily to prayer, while the latter being more active, doing work such as operating hospitals, caring for the poor, or teaching.
member of a Christian religious community of women
—see alsomonk- Afrikaans:non (af)
- Albanian:murgeshë (sq) f
- Arabic:رَاهِبَة f(rāhiba)
- Armenian:միանձնուհի (hy)(mianjnuhi)
- Asturian:monxa (ast) f
- Azerbaijani:rahibə
- Basque:moja (eu)
- Belarusian:мана́шка f(manáška)
- Bulgarian:монахи́ня f(monahínja),калу́герка f(kalúgerka)
- Catalan:monja (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin:修女 (zh)(xiūnǚ),尼姑 (zh)(nígū),姑子 (zh)(gūzi),尼 (zh)(ní)
- Czech:jeptiška (cs) f,řeholnice (cs) f
- Danish:nonne (da) c
- Dutch:non (nl) f, (klooster-, slot-)zuster (nl) f
- Erzya:ськамонава(śkamonava)
- Esperanto:monaĥino
- Estonian:nunn (et)
- Faroese:nunna f
- Finnish:nunna (fi)
- French:nonne (fr) f,religieuse (fr) f,bonne sœur (fr) f,moniale (fr) f,nonnain (fr) f
- Galician:madre (gl) f,monxa f,touquinegra f(archaic),freira f
- Georgian:მონაზონი(monazoni)
- German:Nonne (de) f,Ordensschwester (de) f,Klosterschwester f,Schwester (de)
- Greek:μοναχή (el) f(monachí),καλόγρια (el) f(kalógria)
- Hebrew:נְזִירָה f(nezirá)
- Hindi:मठवासिनी f(maṭhvāsinī),भक्तिन (hi) f(bhaktin)
- Hungarian:apáca (hu),nővér (hu)
- Icelandic:nunna f
- Indonesian:biarawati (id),suster (id)
- Irish:bean rialta f
- Italian:suora (it) f,monaca (it) f
- Japanese:修道女 (ja)(しゅうどうじょ, shūdōjo),尼僧 (ja)(にそう, nisō),童貞 (ja)(dōtei),(now derogatory)尼 (ja)(あま, ama)
- Korean:수녀(修女) (ko)(sunyeo),비구니(比丘尼) (ko)(biguni)
- Kyrgyz:монахиня(monahinya)
- Latin:nonna f,monacha f
- Latvian:mūķene f
- Lithuanian:vienuolė f
- Luxembourgish:Nonn (lb) f
- Macedonian:калуѓерка f(kaluǵerka)
- Malay:rahib perempuan
- Māori:none
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic:гэлэнмаа (mn)(gelenmaa)
- Norman:nonne f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål:nonne m orf
- Nynorsk:nonne f
- Old English:nunne f
- Ossetian:моладзан(molaʒan)
- Persian:
- Dari:رَاهِبَه(rāhiba)
- Iranian Persian:راهِبِه(râhebe)
- Polish:zakonnica (pl),mniszka (pl) f,siostra zakonna f,siostra (pl) f
- Portuguese:freira (pt),religiosa (pt) f,madre (pt) f,monja (pt) f
- Romanian:călugăriță (ro) f
- Russian:мона́хиня (ru) f(monáxinja),мона́шка (ru) f(monáška)
- Sami:
- Skolt Sami:manaših
- Scottish Gaelic:cailleach dhubh f,bean-chràbhaidh f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic:часна сестра f,калуђерица f,монахиња f,редовница f
- Latin:časna sestra (sh) f,kaluđerica (sh) f,monahinja (sh) f,redovnica (sh) f
- Slovak:mníška (sk) f,rehoľníčka f
- Slovene:nuna (sl) f,redovnica f
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian:mnichowka f
- Spanish:monja (es) f,religiosa (es) f
- Swahili:sista (sw)
- Swedish:nunna (sv) c
- Tagalog:madre
- Tajik:роҳиба(rohiba)
- Tamil:துறவி (ta)(tuṟavi)
- Tetun Dili:madre
- Thai:ชี (th)(chii),แม่ชี (th)
- Tibetan:བཙུན་མ(btsun ma)
- Turkish:rahibe (tr)
- Ukrainian:мона́хиня f(monáxynja),мона́шка f(monáška),черни́ця f(černýcja)
- Urdu:راہِبَہ f(rāhiba),نَن f(nan)
- Uyghur:راھىبە(rahibe)
- Uzbek:rohiba (uz),monashka
- Vietnamese:xơ (vi)(Roman Catholicism),bà xơ (vi)(Roman Catholicism),nữ tu sĩ (vi),nữ tu
- Vilamovian:nunn f
- Volapük:(♂♀)kleudan (vo),(♂)hikleudan (vo),(♀)jikleudan (vo)
- Welsh:lleian (cy) f
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member of a non-Christian religious community of women
Translations to be checked
Borrowed from the letter’s name in the respective language.Doublet ofnu.
nun (pluralnuns)
- The fourteenthletter of manySemiticalphabets orabjads (Phoenician,Aramaic,Hebrew,Syriac,Arabic and others).
nun
- Pronunciation spelling ofnothing.
- IPA(key): /ˈnun/[ˈnũŋ]
- Rhymes:-un
- Syllabification:nun
FromLatinnōn.
nun
- not,no (used to make negatives)
nun
- ina/an (contraction ofen +un)
- Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “nun”, inDiccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana,→ISBN
- “nun”, inDiccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1ª edición,Academia de la Llingua Asturiana,2000,→ISBN
Borrowed fromArabicنُون(nūn).
nun (definite accusativenunu,pluralnunlar)
- the Arabic letterن
nún
- (anatomy)nose
Inherited fromOld Frenchnegun, fromLatinnec unus.
nun
- (Troyen, Langrois)nobody
- Daunay, Jean (1998),Parlers de Champagne : Pour un classement thématique du vocabulaire des anciens parlers de Champagne (Aube - Marne - Haute-Marne)[2] (in French), Rumilly-lés-Vaudes
- Baudoin, Alphonse (1885),Glossaire de la forêt de Clairvaux[3] (in French), Troyes
- non(in older Americanist literature)
Cognates: Navajonooʼ, Western Apachenon,noi, Plains Apachenǫǫ.
nun
- grave,burial place
- cache
nun
- parent
Borrowed fromGermannun.
nun
- now
FromOld Galician-Portuguesenon, fromLatinnōn(“not”).
- IPA(key): /ˈnun/
- Rhymes:-un
- Syllabification:nun
nun
- alternative form ofnon(“no, not”)
- Valeš, Miroslav (2021),Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)[4], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published2022,→ISBN, page211
FromPhoenician[Term?].
- IPA(key): /ˈnun/,[ˈnun]
- Rhymes:-un
- Syllabification(key):nun
- Hyphenation(key):nun
nun
- nun(fourteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad)
- IPA(key): /ˈnuŋ/[ˈnũŋ]
- Rhymes:-uŋ
- Hyphenation:nun
From contraction of prepositionen(“in”) + masculine articleun(“a, one”).
nun m (femininenunha,masculine pluralnuns,feminine pluralnunhas)
- ina, inone
Probably from or under influence ofAsturiannun.
nun
- (Galician-Asturian)not
1898, Acevedo Huelves,Boal y su Concejo, page61:En Llanteironun hay mozas, en Mezà todas son veyas, en Miñagon milindrosas y en Serandías a fror d'ellas.- In Llanteiro there areno girls, in Mezá they are all old, in Miñagón [they are] finicky and in Serandías [they are] the cream of the crop.
1898, Marcelino Fernández Fernández,El Franco y su Concejo, page112:As cuitas ayías,num me quitan dormir. / Condo Diosnun quer, os Santosnun poden- Other people's troublesdon't keep me up at night / When Goddoesn't want [it], the Saints cannot
FromMiddle High Germannu, nū,nuo with a secondary final-n, already occasionally inMiddle High Germannuon, fromOld High Germannu, fromProto-West Germanic*nū.
- nu(colloquial; otherwise archaic)
nun
- now, at this moment
- now,then;expressing a logical or temporal consequence
Wir haben abgewaschen,nun müssen wir noch abtrocknen.- We've washed up,now we must dry [the dishes].
Was bedeutennun die geschilderten Entwicklungen für unser Land?- Now what do the aforementioned developments mean for our country?
- unstressed and expletive, used for minor emphasis
Was soll dasnun heißen?- What's that supposed to meannow?
- Although the adverb is similar and akin to English “now”, Germannun is not commonly used in a strictly temporal sense, meaning “at this moment”. For that, seejetzt.
nun
- now,well,so
Nun, das ist eine schwierige Frage.- Well, that's a tough question.
Clipping ofnun dass ornunda.
nun
- (literary or dated colloquial)now that, given that it has occurred that the circumstances do not withstand that …
FromArabicنُون(nūn).
nun f
- nun(letter of the Arabic alphabet)
Borrowed from Esperantonun, Germannun. Originally replaced withnunk, it was eventually taken back.
nun
- now,at present, atthis time
- Synonym:nunk(archaic)
FromHebrewנו״ן(nun).
nun f (invariable)
- nun,specifically:
- the name of thePhoenician-script letter𐤍
- the name of theHebrew-script letterנ/ן
- the name of theArabic-script letterن
nun
- (Romanesco, Tuscan, southern Italian)alternative form ofnon
nun
- canoe
Akin toItaliannoi, from Latinnos.
nun
- we
FromProto-Athabaskan*naˑn.
nun
- todrink
- Kari, Jameset al. (2024), Kari, James, editor,Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center,→ISBN, page337
nun
- nonstandard spelling ofnún
- nonstandard spelling ofnùn
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the criticaltonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Froman(“in”) +un(“a”,masculine singular indefinite article).
nun m pl (pluralnuns,femininenũa,feminine pluralnũas)
- ina,insome
nun
- alternative form ofnó(“no, not”)
Commonly used before verb forms.
- Moisés, Pires (2004), “nun”, inPequeno vocabulário Mirandês-Português [Small Mirandese-Portuguese Vocabulary], 2nd edition, Miranda do Douro: Câmara Municipal de Miranda do Douro, published2019,→ISBN, page364.
Seenom.
nunoblique singular, m (oblique pluralnuns,nominative singularnuns,nominative pluralnun)
- (Anglo-Norman)alternative form ofnom
Reduced form ofnegun.
nun m (oblique and nominative feminine singularnune)
- alternative form ofnegun
nun
- alternative form ofnegun
CompareBengaliনুন(nun).
nun
- salt
Inherited fromLate Latinnonnus.
nun m (pluralnuni,feminine equivalentnună)
- thegodfather at awedding
FromLatinnōn.
- IPA(key): /nun/,[nun],[un],[n]
nun
- not
Cognate withPersianنان(nân).
nun
- bread
Akin toPersianنان(nân,“bread”), see there for more.
nun
- bread
Inherited fromOttoman Turkishنون(nûn), fromArabicنُون(nūn).
nun
- Letter of the Arabic alphabet:ن
Borrowed fromArabicنُون(nūn).
nun (pluralnunlar)
- the Arabic letterن
nun (genitivenuna,pluralnuns)
- message
1946, “Nuns”, inVolapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page34:Ko lied gretik egetobsnuni, das vomül: ‚Maria Willebrand’ in ‚Warendorf’ e söl: ‚Ing. Paul Tarnow’ in ‚Düsseldorf-Oberkassel’ edeadons sekü krigaduns.- With great regret we have received thenews that Miss Maria Willebrand of Warendorf and Mr. ing. Paul Tarnow of Düsseldorf-Oberkassel have died as a result of war action.
- ñun(used alongside "nun" in Urban Wolof)
nun
- we(first-person plural subject pronoun)
- IPA(key): [ˈnun]
- Hyphenation:nun
nun m
- alternative form ofnan
