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====Pronunciation====
* {{enPR|nŭn}}, {{IPA|en|/nʌn/}}
* {{audio|en|En-au-nun.ogg|Audio (a=AU)}}
* {{rhymesIPA|en|ʌn/nʊn/|sa=1North England,Ireland}}
* {{homophones|en|none}}
* {{lrhymes|en|nunhoodʌn|s=1}}▼
 
====Noun====
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# A member of a [[Christian]] religious community of women who live by certain [[vow]]s and usually wear a [[habit]], {{lb|en|Roman Catholicism|specifically}} those living together in a [[cloister]].
#: {{syn|en|sister|moniale|sistren|cloistress}}▼
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1988|author=[[w:Tsitsi Dangarembga|Tsitsi Dangarembga]]|title=[[w:Nervous Conditions|Nervous Conditions]]|publisher=Faber & Faber Limited (2021)|page=258|passage=Thus, when the '''nuns''' 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.}}▼
▲#: {{syn|en|sister|moniale|sistren}}
#: {{ant|en|brother|friar|monk|frater}}
▲#* {{quote-book|en|year=1988|author=[[w:Tsitsi Dangarembga|Tsitsi Dangarembga]]|title=[[w:Nervous Conditions|Nervous Conditions]]|publisher=Faber & Faber Limited (2021)|page=258|passage=Thus, when the '''nuns''' 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.}}
# {{lb|en|by extension}} A member of a similar female community in other [[confession]]s.
#: {{ux|en|a Buddhist '''nun'''}}
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|en
|year=1881
|firstauthor=w:Pierce Egan
|last=Egan
|authorlink=Pierce Egan
|title=Life in London
|chapter=8
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=====Usage notes=====
* In [[Roman Catholicism]], a distinction is often drawn, (especially by members of female [[religious order]]s), 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.
 
=====Hyponyms=====
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=====Derived terms=====
{{col-auto|en|corporate nun|nun buoy|nun-coloured|nunhood|nunlike|nun-like|nun moth|nunnery|Nun of the Visitation|dry as a nun's nasty|dry as a nun's cunt}}
* {{l|en|nun buoy}}
▲* {{l|en|nunhood}}
* {{l|en|nunlike}}, {{l|en|nun-like}}▼
* {{l|en|nunnery}}
 
=====Related terms=====
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=====Translations=====
{{trans-top|member of a Christian religious community of women}}
* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|non}}
* Albanian: {{t+|sq|murgeshë|f}}
* Arabic: {{t|ar|رَاهِبَة|f}}
* Armenian: {{t+|hy|միանձնուհի }}
* Asturian: {{t+|ast|monxa|f}}
* Azerbaijani: {{t|az|rahibə}}
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* Erzya: {{t|myv|ськамонава}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|monaĥino}}
* Estonian: {{t+|et|nunn}}
* Faroese: {{t|fo|nunna|f}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nunna}}
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* German: {{t+|de|Nonne|f}}, {{t+|de|Ordensschwester|f}}, {{t|de|Klosterschwester|f}}, {{t+|de|Schwester}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μοναχή|f}}, {{t+|el|καλόγρια|f}}
* Hebrew: {{t|he|נזירהנְזִירָה|f|tr=nezirá}}
* Hindi: {{t|hi|मठवासिनी|f}}, {{t+|hi|भक्तिन|f}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|apáca}}, {{t+|hu|nővér}}
* Icelandic: {{t+|is|nunna|f}}
* Indonesian: {{t+|id|biarawati}}, {{t+|id|suster}}
* Irish: {{t|ga|bean rialta|f}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|suora|f}}, {{t+|it|monaca|f}}
* Japanese: {{t+|ja|修道女|tr=しゅうどうじょ, shūdōjo}}, {{t+|ja|尼僧|tr=にそう, nisō}}, {{t+|ja|童貞|tr=dōtei}}, {{qualifier|now derogatory}} {{t+|ja|尼|tr=あま, ama}}
* Korean: {{t+|ko|수녀(修女)}}, {{t+|ko|비구니(比丘尼)}}
* Kyrgyz: {{t|ky|монахиня}}
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* Malay: {{t|ms|rahib perempuan}}
* Maori: {{t|mi|none}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t+|mn|гэлэнмаа|sc=Cyrl}}
* Norman: {{t|nrf|nonne|f}}
* Norwegian:
*: Bokmål: {{t|nonb|nonne|m|f}}
*: Nynorsk: {{t|nn|nonne|f}}
* Old English: {{t|ang|nunne|f}}
* PersianOssetian: {{t+|faos|راهبه|tr=râhebeмоладзан}}
* Persian:
*: Dari: {{t+|prs|رَاهِبَه}}
*: Iranian Persian: {{t+|fa-ira|راهِبِه}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|zakonnica}}, {{t+|pl|mniszka|f}}, {{t|pl|siostra zakonna|f}}, {{t+|pl|siostra|f}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|freira}}, {{t+|pt|religiosa|f}}, {{t+|pt|madre|f}}, {{t+|pt|monja|f}}
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* Tetun Dili: {{t|tdt|madre}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ชี}}, {{t+|th|แม่ชี}}
* Tibetan: {{t|bo|བཙུན་མ}}
* Turkish: {{t+|tr|rahibe}}
* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|мона́хиня|f}}, {{t|uk|мона́шка|f}}, {{t|uk|черни́ця|f}}
* Urdu: {{t|ur|راہبہراہِبَہ|f|tr=rāhiba}}, {{t|ur|نننَن|tr=nanf}}
* Uyghur: {{t|ug|راھىبە}}
* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|rohiba}}, {{t|uz|monashka}}
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{{trans-top|member of a non-Christian religious community of women}}
* Afrikaans: {{t+|af|non}}
* Burmese: {{t+|my|သီလရှင်|sc=Mymr}}, {{t+|my|ဘိက္ခုနီ|sc=Mymr}} {{qualifier|mendicant Buddhist nun}}
* Chinese:
*: Min NanHokkien: {{t+|nan-hbl|尼姑|tr=[[li5nî-ko͘ / lî-koo1]]ko͘}}
* Czech: {{t|cs|mniška|f}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|monaĥino}}
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* Hindi: {{t|hi|मठवासिनी|f|sc=Deva}}, {{t+|hi|तपस्विनी|f|sc=Deva}}
* Italian: {{t+|it|monaca|f}}
* Khmer: {{t+|km|ជី|tr=cii|sc=Khmr}}
* Mongolian:
*: Cyrillic: {{t+|mn|гэлэнмаа|sc=Cyrl}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|mniszka|f}}
* Thai: {{t+|th|ชี}}, {{t+|th|แม่ชี}}
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====Pronunciation====
* {{enPR|nŏŏn}}, {{IPA|en|/nʊn/}} ''or'' {{enPR|no͞on}}, {{IPA|en|/nuːn/}}
** {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-nun (oo).wav|Audioa=Southern (UK)England}}
* {{rhymes|en|ʊn|uːn|s=1}}
 
====Noun====
{{en-noun}}
 
# The fourteenth [[letter]] of many [[Semitic]] alphabets/abjads[[alphabet]]s or [[abjad]]s ([[Phoenician]], [[Aramaic]], [[Hebrew]], [[Syriac]], [[Arabic]] and others).
 
=====Translations=====
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* Dutch: {{t+|nl|noen}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nun}}
▲* French: {{lt+|enfr|nunlikenoun|m}}, {{lt+|enfr|nun-like|m}}
* Hebrew: {{t+|he|נון|m|tr=nun}}
* Persian: {{t+|fa|نون|tr=nun}}, {{t|fa|ن}} {{qualifier|letter}}
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* Yiddish: {{t|yi|נון|m|f}}
{{trans-bottom}}
 
====See also====
* [[Appendix:Hebrew alphabet]]
 
====Further reading====
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* {{R:Online Etymology Dictionary}}
 
[[Category:fi:{{C|en|Hebrew letter names|Phoenician letter names]]}}▼
{{cln|en|three-letter words|heteronyms}}
{{C|en|Arabic letter names|Monasticism|People|Catholicism|Female people}}
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# [[in]] [[a]]/[[an]] (contraction of {{l|ast|en}} + {{l|ast|un}})
 
==Azerbaijani==
 
===Etymology===
{{bor+|az|ar|نُون}}.
 
===Noun===
{{eoaz-IPAnoun}}▼
 
# the Arabic letter {{lang|mul|sc=Arab|ن}} {{c|az|Arabic letter names}}
 
====Declension====
{{az-decl-noun|u|c}}
 
====Further reading====
* {{R:az:Obastan}}
 
==Bambara==
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===References===
* Richard Nci Diarra, [http://bambara.org/fr/index.htm ''Lexique bambara-français-anglais''], December 13, 2010
 
==Champenois==
 
===Etymology===
{{inh+|roa-cha|fro|nun|negun}}, from {{inh|roa-cha|la|nec unus}}.
 
===Pronunciation===
{{IPA|roa-cha|/nœ̃/}}
 
===Adverb===
{{head|roa-cha|adverb}}
 
# {{lb|roa-cha|Troyen|Langrois}} [[nobody]]
 
===References===
* {{R:roa-cha:Daunay}}
* {{R:roa-cha:Baudouin}}
 
==Chiricahua==
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===Etymology===
From {{derbor+|eo|de|nun}}.
 
===Pronunciation===
* {{audio|eo-IPA|a=LL-Q143 (epo)-Lepticed7-nun.wav|Audio}}
▲{{eo-IPA}}
 
===Adverb===
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===Pronunciation===
{{fax-IPApr}}
 
===Adverb===
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{{fi-decl-risti|nun|||a|i=0}}
 
[[Category:{{C|fi:|Hebrew letter names]]|Phoenician letter names}}
▲[[Category:fi:Phoenician letter names]]
 
==Galician==
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===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|de|/nuːn/}}
* {{audio|de|De-nun.ogg|Audio}}
 
===Etymology 1===
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# [[now]], at this moment
# [[now]], [[then]]; {{nonn-gloss definitiong|expressing a logical or temporal consequence}}
#: {{ux|de|Wir haben abgewaschen, '''nun''' müssen wir noch abtrocknen.|We've washed up, '''now''' we must dry [the dishes].}}
#: {{ux|de|Was bedeuten '''nun''' die geschilderten Entwicklungen für unser Land?|'''Now''' what do the aforementioned developments mean for our country?}}
# {{nonn-gloss definitiong|unstressed and expletive, used for minor emphasis}}
#: {{ux|de|Was soll das '''nun''' heißen?|What's that supposed to mean '''now'''?}}
 
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# {{l|en|nun}} {{gl|letter of the Arabic alphabet}}
 
[[Category:{{C|ha:|Arabic letter names]]}}
 
==Ido==
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# {{l|en|now}}, {{l|en|at present}}, at {{l|en|this time}}
#: {{syn|io|nunk}} {{qualifier|<qq:archaic>}}
 
====Derived terms====
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===Etymology===
From {{inh+|ro|LL.|nonnus}}.
 
===Noun===
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# [[not]]
 
==Talysh==
 
===Etymology===
Cognate with {{cog|fa|نان|tr=nân}}.
 
===Noun===
{{head|tly|noun}}
 
# [[bread]]
 
==Tat==
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# Letter of the Arabic alphabet: {{lang|mul|sc=Arab|ن}}
*#* Previous: {{l|mul|sc=Arab|م}}
*#* Next: {{l|mul|sc=Arab|و}}
 
[[Category:{{C|tr:|Arabic letter names]]}}
 
==Uzbek==
 
===Etymology===
{{bor+|uz|ar|نُون}}.
 
===Noun===
{{uz-noun}}
 
# the Arabic letter {{lang|mul|sc=Arab|ن}} {{c|uz|Arabic letter names}}
 
====Declension====
{{uz-decl-noun}}
 
==Volapük==
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# [[message]]
#* {{quote-journal|vo|year=1946|author=|title=Nuns|journal=Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans|pages=34|passage=Ko lied gretik egetobs '''nuni''', das vomül: ‚Maria Willebrand’ in ‚Warendorf’ e söl: ‚Ing. Paul Tarnow’ in ‚Düsseldorf-Oberkassel’ edeadons sekü krigaduns.|t=With great regret we have received the '''news''' that Miss Maria Willebrand of Warendorf and Mr. ing. Paul Tarnow of Düsseldorf-Oberkassel have died as a result of war action.}}
 
====Declension====
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===Noun===
{{zza-noun|m}}
 
# {{alt form|zza|nan}}
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