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====Pronunciation====

* {{enPR|nŭn}}, {{IPA|en|/nʌn/}}

* {{homophones|en|none}}

 

====Noun====

 

# 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]].

#: {{ant|en|brother|friar|monk|frater}}

#* {{quote-book|en|year=1988|author=w:Tsitsi Dangarembga|title=w: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.}}

 

=====Usage notes=====

 

=====Hyponyms=====

 

=====Derived terms=====

 

=====Related terms=====

=====Translations=====

{{trans-top|member of a Christian religious community of women}}

* Albanian: {{t+|sq|murgeshë|f}}

* Arabic: {{t|ar|رَاهِبَة|f}}

* 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}}

* Hindi: {{t|hi|मठवासिनी|f}}, {{t+|hi|भक्तिन|f}}

* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|apáca}}, {{t+|hu|nővér}}

* Malay: {{t|ms|rahib perempuan}}

* Maori: {{t|mi|none}}

* Norman: {{t|nrf|nonne|f}}

* Old English: {{t|ang|nunne|f}}

* 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}}

* Tetun Dili: {{t|tdt|madre}}

* Thai: {{t+|th|ชี}}, {{t+|th|แม่ชี}}

* Turkish: {{t+|tr|rahibe}}

* Ukrainian: {{t|uk|мона́хиня|f}}, {{t|uk|мона́шка|f}}, {{t|uk|черни́ця|f}}

* Uyghur: {{t|ug|راھىبە}}

* Uzbek: {{t+|uz|rohiba}}, {{t|uz|monashka}}

 

{{trans-top|member of a non-Christian religious community of women}}

* Chinese:

* Czech: {{t|cs|mniška|f}}

* Esperanto: {{t|eo|monaĥino}}

* Hindi: {{t|hi|मठवासिनी|f|sc=Deva}}, {{t+|hi|तपस्विनी|f|sc=Deva}}

* Italian: {{t+|it|monaca|f}}

* Polish: {{t+|pl|mniszka|f}}

* Thai: {{t+|th|ชี}}, {{t+|th|แม่ชี}}

====Pronunciation====

* {{enPR|nŏŏn}}, {{IPA|en|/nʊn/}} ''or'' {{enPR|no͞on}}, {{IPA|en|/nuːn/}}

 

====Noun====

{{en-noun}}

 

 

=====Translations=====

* Dutch: {{t+|nl|noen}}

* Finnish: {{t+|fi|nun}}

* Hebrew: {{t+|he|נון|m|tr=nun}}

* Persian: {{t+|fa|نون|tr=nun}}, {{t|fa|ن}} {{qualifier|letter}}

* Yiddish: {{t|yi|נון|m|f}}

{{trans-bottom}}

 

====Further reading====

 

# [[in]] [[a]]/[[an]] (contraction of {{l|ast|en}} + {{l|ast|un}})

 

==Bambara==

===References===

* Richard Nci Diarra, [http://bambara.org/fr/index.htm ''Lexique bambara-français-anglais''], December 13, 2010

 

==Chiricahua==

 

===Etymology===

 

===Pronunciation===

 

===Adverb===

 

===Pronunciation===

 

===Adverb===

{{fi-decl-risti|nun|||a|i=0}}

 

 

==Galician==

===Pronunciation===

* {{IPA|de|/nuːn/}}

 

===Etymology 1===

 

# [[now]], at this moment

#: {{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?}}

#: {{ux|de|Was soll das '''nun''' heißen?|What's that supposed to mean '''now'''?}}

 

# {{l|en|nun}} {{gl|letter of the Arabic alphabet}}

 

 

==Ido==

 

# [[not]]

 

==Tat==

#* Next: {{l|mul|sc=Arab|و}}

 

 

==Volapük==

 

# [[message]]

 

====Declension====

===Noun===

{{zza-noun|m}}

# {{alt form|zza|nan}}