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PRONUNCIATION OF NUNNATION

nunnation  [nʌnˈeɪʃən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF NUNNATION

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Nunnation is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES NUNNATION MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Nunation

In some Semitic languages, such as Arabic, nunation is the addition of a final nūn sound to a noun or adjective to indicate that it is fully declinable and syntactically unmarked for definiteness. There are three of these vowel diacritics, and the signs indicate, from left to right, the endings -un, -in, and -an. The sign ـً‎ is most commonly written in combination with ا‎ alif, ةً‎ or stand-alone ءً‎. An alif should always be written unless the word ends in tāʾ marbūṭa or hamza or is a diptote, even though the -un, -an or -in is not written. Since Arabic has no indefinite article, nouns in a syntactic context unmarked for definiteness are generally indefinite; this has led to the extremely common but inaccurate belief that nunation is a marker for indefiniteness and is analogous to an indefinite article. The lack of a marker for definiteness does not necessarily make a word indefinite; in fact, many definite nouns take nunation, as for example in the expression أشهد أن محمدًا رسول الله, in which the name Muḥammad, a definite noun, is nunated.

Definition of nunnation in the English dictionary

The definition of nunnation in the dictionary is the pronunciation of an extra n-sound at the end of inflected words in Arabic and other languages. Other definition of nunnation is the pronunciation of an n-sound instead of other consonants often as a symptom of stammering.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH NUNNATION


affiliation
əˌfɪlɪˈeɪʃən
appreciation
əˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən
Asian
ˈeɪʃən
association
əˌsəʊsɪˈeɪʃən
aviation
ˌeɪvɪˈeɪʃən
bromination
ˌbrəʊmɪnˈeɪʃən
connation
kɒnˈeɪʃən
creation
kriːˈeɪʃən
Croatian
krəʊˈeɪʃən
deoxygenation
diːˌɒksɪdʒɪnˈeɪʃən
deviation
ˌdiːvɪˈeɪʃən
evaluation
ɪˌvæljʊˈeɪʃən
graduation
ˌɡrædjʊˈeɪʃən
humiliation
hjuːˌmɪlɪˈeɪʃən
hyphenation
ˌhaɪfənˈeɪʃən
Pan-Asian
ˈpænˈeɪʃən
personation
ˌpɜːsənˈeɪʃən
recreation
ˌrɛkrɪˈeɪʃən
situation
ˌsɪtjʊˈeɪʃən
variation
ˌvɛərɪˈeɪʃən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE NUNNATION

nuncheon
nunciature
nuncio
nuncle
nuncupate
nuncupation
nuncupative
nuncupatory
nundinal
nundine
Nuneaton
nunhood
nunlike
Nunn
nunneries
nunnery
nunnish
nunnishness
nunny bag
nunship

WORDS THAT END LIKE NUNNATION

accreditation
action
administration
animation
application
certification
citation
combination
communication
confirmation
conversation
corporation
decoration
destination
documentation
duration
education
excitation
federation
formation
foundation

Synonyms and antonyms of nunnation in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «nunnation» into 25 languages

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The translations of nunnation from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «nunnation» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

nunnation
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

nunnation
570 millions of speakers

English

nunnation
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

nunnation
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نأنأة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

nunnation
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

nunnation
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

nunnation
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

nunnation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Nunnation
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

nunnation
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

nunnation
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

nunnation
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Nunnation
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

nunnation
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

nunnation
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

नाणं
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

nunnation
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

nunnation
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nunnation
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

nunnation
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nunnation
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

nunnation
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

nunnation
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

nunnation
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nunnation
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of nunnation

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «NUNNATION»

The term «nunnation» is normally little used and occupies the 129.482 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «NUNNATION» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about nunnation

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NUNNATION»

Discover the use of nunnation in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to nunnation and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Alliteration and Sound Change in Early English
4.3.4 Nunnation in Middle English Nunnation is the addition of an unetymological <n-> after a vowel. This phenomenon is potentially relevant for the description of the changes affecting Onset in Middle English. The earliest Middle English ...
Donka Minkova, 2003
2
A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights' ...
Then he spent the rest of the night with her in embracing and clipping, plying the particle of copulation in concert1 and joining the conjunctive with the conjoined,2 whilst her husband was as a cast-out nunnation of construction.3 And they ...
‎1900
3
Arabian Nights
Then he spent the rest of the night with her in embracing and clipping, plying the particle of copulation in con- cert1 and joining the conjunctive with the conjoined, 2 whilst her husband was as a cast-Out nunnation of construction.3 And they ...
‎2008
4
A practical Arabic grammar
esq. Duncan Stewart. In general, when a pause occurs, the vowel or nunnation of Sc' the last letter is suppressed; thus, instead of saying <x>j ijtj* Zaid has struck me, and iXm^M Julc ,y-*V -4W ul Hamid has come to me, pronouncing in the first  ...
esq. Duncan Stewart, 1841
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The Monthly Review
The Arabians, however, in their Nunnation, have a contrivance which appears to us to have been invented originally to supply the place of an indefinite article. The vowetterminatioii Darnma seems to have been intended to express the thing  ...
Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths, 1812
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The Southern Review. Vol. V. February and May, 1830.
There is one instance, in the modern languages of Teutonic origin, in which we find the Arabic nunnation : this is the German and Dutch hitmen, the Saxon binnan or binnon, signifying within, Hebrew and Chaldee beyn, Arabic, bayn, without ...
‎1830
7
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
Tanwin" (nunnation)is pronouncing thevowels of the case endings ofa noun with nunforu (nominative) infori (genitive) and an for a(accusative). This nunnation expresses indefiniteness, e.g. "Malikun"=a king, any king. When the noun is made ...
Anonymous, 2013
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Southern Review
There is one instance, in the modern languages of Teutonic origin, in which we find the Arabic nunnation : this is the German and Dutch binntn, the Saxon hitman or binnon, signifying within, Hebrew and Chaldee beyn, Arabic, bayn, without ...
‎1830
9
The Southern Review
There is one instance, in the modern languages of Teutonic origin, in which we find the Arabic nunnation : this is the German and Dutch binnen, the Saxon bjnnan or binnon, signifying within, Hebrew and Chaldee beyn, Arabic, bayn, without ...
‎1830
10
A grammar of the Arabick language
As before observed, in common reading and conversation the Nunnation is not founded, so that the nominative is generally pronounced heire, genitive Imsiti, accusative Imsita, &e. When the accusative is used adverbially however the ...
John I Richardson, 1776

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