nun

Etymology 1
From, , from , from , originally (along with masculine form ) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from , reminiscent of , like etc..

Noun

 * 1) A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit,  those living together in a cloister.
 * 2)  A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
 * 3)  A prostitute.
 * 4) A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
 * 1)  A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
 * 2)  A prostitute.
 * 3) A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
 * 1) A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
 * 1) A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
 * 1) A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
 * 1) A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

Usage notes
In Roman Catholicism, a distinction is often drawn (especially by members of female religious orders) between nuns and sisters, the former being cloistered and devoted primarily to prayer, the latter being more active, doing work such as operating hospitals, caring for the poor, or teaching.

Hyponyms

 * See

Translations

 * Afrikaans:
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: رَاهِبَة
 * Armenian:
 * Asturian:
 * Azerbaijani: rahibə
 * Belarusian: мана́шка
 * Bulgarian: монахи́ня, калу́герка
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, (klooster-, slot-)
 * Erzya: ськамонава
 * Esperanto: monaĥino
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: nunna
 * Finnish:
 * French:, , , ,
 * Galician:, monxa, touquinegra , freira
 * Georgian: მონაზონი
 * German:, , Klosterschwester,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew: נְזִירָה
 * Hindi: मठवासिनी,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: nunna
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Irish: bean rialta
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, , ,
 * Korean: ,
 * Kyrgyz: монахиня
 * Latin: nonna, monacha
 * Latvian: mūķene
 * Lithuanian: vienuolė
 * Luxembourgish:
 * Macedonian: калуѓерка
 * Malay: rahib perempuan
 * Maori: none
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norman: nonne
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: nonne
 * Nynorsk: nonne
 * Old English: nunne
 * Ossetian: моладзан
 * Persian:
 * Dari:
 * Iranian Persian:
 * Polish:, , siostra zakonna,
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cailleach dhubh, bean-chràbhaidh
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: часна сестра, калуђерица, монахиња, редовница
 * Roman:, , ,
 * Skolt Sami: manaših
 * Slovak:, rehoľníčka
 * Slovene:, redovnica
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: mnichowka
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: madre
 * Tajik: роҳиба
 * Tetun Dili: madre
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: བཙུན་མ
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: мона́хиня, мона́шка, черни́ця
 * Urdu: راہِبَہ, نَن
 * Uyghur: راھىبە
 * Uzbek:, monashka
 * Vietnamese:, , , nữ tu
 * Vilamovian: nunn
 * Volapük:,  ,
 * Welsh:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Hokkien:
 * Czech: mniška
 * Esperanto: monaĥino
 * Galician: monxa
 * Georgian: მონაზონი
 * Greek:
 * Hindi: मठवासिनी,
 * Italian:
 * Khmer:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Polish:
 * Thai: ,
 * Tibetan: ཨ་ནི
 * Tocharian A: aśi
 * Uyghur: راھىبە
 * Vietnamese:


 * Georgian: ,

Etymology 2
Borrowed from the letter’s name in the respective language. .

Pronunciation

 * , or ,

Noun

 * 1) The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).

Translations

 * Arabic: نُون,
 * Catalan:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Persian:, ن
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Urdu: نون
 * Yiddish: נון

Etymology 1
From.

Adverb

 * 1) not, no (used to make negatives)

Contraction

 * 1) in a/an (contraction of  + )

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) the Arabic letter ن

Noun

 * 1)  nose

Etymology
Cognates: Navajo, Western Apache , , Plains Apache.

Noun

 * 1) grave, burial place
 * 2) cache

Noun

 * 1) parent

Etymology
.

Adverb

 * 1) now

Etymology
From, from.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) nun fourteenth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad

Etymology
From contraction of preposition + masculine article.

Contraction

 * 1) in a, in one

Etymology 1
From, with a secondary final -n, already occasionally in , from , from.

Adverb

 * 1) now, at this moment
 * 2) now, then;

Usage notes

 * Although the adverb is similar and akin to English “now”, German nun is not commonly used in a strictly temporal sense, meaning “at this moment”. For that, see.

Interjection

 * 1) now, well, so

Etymology 2
or.

Conjunction

 * 1)  now that, given that it has occurred that the circumstances do not withstand that …

Etymology
From.

Etymology
Originally replaced with, it was eventually taken back.

Adverb

 * ,, at

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  𐤍
 * 2)  נ/ן
 * 3)  ن
 * 1)  ن

Noun

 * 1) canoe

Etymology
Akin to 🇨🇬, from Latin nos.

Pronoun

 * 1) we

Adverb

 * 1) not

Etymology 1
See.

Etymology 2
Reduced form of.

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) salt

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) the godfather at a wedding

Etymology
From.

Adverb

 * 1) not

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) bread

Etymology
Akin to 🇨🇬, see there for more.

Noun

 * 1) bread

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ن
 * 2) * Previous:
 * 3) * Next:

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) the Arabic letter ن

Noun

 * 1) message

Pronoun

 * 1) we first-person plural subject pronoun