# ن

| ن | U+0646, &#1606; ARABIC LETTER NOON |
| ← م [U+0645] | Arabic | ه → [U+0647] |
| ﻥ | U+FEE5, &#65253; ARABIC LETTER NOON ISOLATED FORM |
| ← ﻤ [U+FEE4] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﻦ → [U+FEE6] |
| ﻦ | U+FEE6, &#65254; ARABIC LETTER NOON FINAL FORM |
| ← ﻥ [U+FEE5] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﻧ → [U+FEE7] |
| ﻧ | U+FEE7, &#65255; ARABIC LETTER NOON INITIAL FORM |
| ← ﻦ [U+FEE6] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﻨ → [U+FEE8] |
| ﻨ | U+FEE8, &#65256; ARABIC LETTER NOON MEDIAL FORM |
| ← ﻧ [U+FEE7] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﻩ → [U+FEE9] |

## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* ࢽ — African form; undotted when final

### Etymology

From the Nabataean letter 𐢕 (l, “nun”), derived from the Phoenician letter 𐤍 (l, “nun”), from the Egyptian hieroglyph 𓆓. See also Classical Syriac ܢ (l, “nun”), Hebrew נ (l, “nun”), Ancient Greek Ν (N), Latin N.

### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/

### Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن • (nūn)
* The twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by م (m) and followed by ه (h).

### Symbol

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن • (nūn)
* The fourteenth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by م (m) and followed by س (s).

### Suffix

ـنَّ or ـنْ • (-nna or -n)
* Suffix marking the short or long energetic mood of a verb that is preceded by لَ (la).
    لَتَشْرَبَنَّ ٱلْمَاءَ أَوْ تَمُوتَ!latašrabanna l-māʔa ʔaw tamūta!Indeed, you either drink water or you die.
    لَأُسَاعِدَنَّكُمْ جَمِيعًا!laʔusāʕidannakum jamīʕan!I'll definitely help all of you.
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:32:وَلَئِن لَّمْ يَفْعَلْ مَا آمُرُهُ لَيُسْجَنَنَّ وَلَيَكُونًا مِّنَ الصَّاغِرِينَwalaʔin lam yafʕal mā ʔāmuruhu layusjananna walayakūnan mina ṣ-ṣāḡirīnaAnd if he does not do what I order him to, he will certainly be imprisoned and fully disgraced.

### Pronoun

نِ • (ni)
* Alternative form of نِي (nī)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 26:80:وَإِذَا مَرِضْتُ فَهُوَ يَشْفِينِwa-ʔiḏā mariḍtu fa-huwa yašfīniand when I get sick it is He who cures me

### See also

* Arabic script letters: حُرُوف (ḥurūf) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي
* Wikipedia article on the Arabic alphabet
* Search for entries beginning with ن
* ـً
* ـٍ
* ـٌ

## Balti
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /n/, [n]

### Letter

ن (transliteration needed)
* The thirty-ninth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

## Burushaski
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /n/, [n]

### Letter

ن (n)
* The fortieth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic ن (n).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /n/
** IPA: [n]
** IPA: [ŋ] (before [k], [ɡ])
** IPA: [ɴ] (before [q])

#### Letter

ن • (n)
* The twenty-fifth letter in the Hija'i order, named نون (nūn).

### Etymology 2

From Arabic نَـ (na-).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ni/, (after a vowel) /n/

#### Prefix

نِـ • (ni-)
* Froms first-person plural forms of present-tense verbs.
    ‎نـ + ‎اكتب (aktib, “I write”) → ‎نكتب (niktib, “we write”)
* Alternative form of ا- (a-, first-person singular present-tense conjugating prefix)

## Kashmiri
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/, /◌̃/

### Letter

ن • (n)
* The thirty-eighth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ن | ـن | ـنـ | نـ |

#### Usage notes

The nasal sound IPA: /◌̃/ is represented by ن only when it comes in the middle of a word. If the nasal sound appears at the end of a word, it is represented by ں.

#### See also

* Previous letter: م (m)
* Next letter: و (v)

## Kazakh
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/

### Letter

ن • (n)
* The twenty-first letter of the Kazakh in Arabic Script. It represents the Cyrillic letter Н.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ن | ـن | ـنـ | نـ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: م
* Next letter: ە
* Arabic script letters: әріптер (ärıpter) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ج, چ, ح, د, ر, ز, س, ش, ع, ف, ق, ك, گ, ڭ, ل, م, ن, ە, ھ, و, ۇ, ۋ, ۆ, ى, ي

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* (Name of letter) IPA: [non]
* (Phoneme) IPA: [n]

### Letter

ن / ن‍ / ‍ن‍ / ‍ن
* The twenty-ninth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

#### See also

* Arabic script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ

## North Levantine Arabic
### Suffix

ـن • (-un, -wun, -yun) pl
* Alternative spelling of ـهن when not pronounced as “-hun”

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1
#### Letter

ن • (nun)
* A letter of the Ottoman Turkish alphabet.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

ن • (ramazan)
* Abbreviation of رمضان (“Ramadan”).

## Pashto
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /nun/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/

### Letter

ن • (nun)
* The thirty-sixth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ن | ـن | ـنـ | نـ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: م
* Next letter: ڼ

## Persian
### Pronunciation

(letter name)
* IPA: /nuːn/
(phoneme)
* IPA: /n/
* (before velars) IPA: [ŋ]
* (before uvulars) IPA: [ɴ]
* (before labials) IPA: [m]
* (before dentals) IPA: [n̪]
    Audio (Iran):(file)

### Letter

ن / نـ / ـنـ / ـن • (nun)
* The twenty-ninth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by م and followed by و. Its name is نون.

## Punjabi
### Alternative forms

* Gurmukhi letter: ਨ (nannā)
* (letter name): نُون (nūn)

### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/, [n̪]

### Letter

ن • (nūn)
* The thirty-third letter of Punjabi in the Shahmukhi script.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ن | ـن | ـنـ | نـ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: م (mīm)
* Next letter: ݨ (aṇūn)
* Shahmukhi script letters: اکّھر (script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ٹ, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ڈ, ذ, ر, ڑ, ز, ژ, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ک, گ, ل, ࣇ, م, ن, ݨ, ں, ہ, و, ی, ے
* Shahmukhi script vowels (script appendix): آ, ا, ع, و, ء, ی, ے
* Shahmukhi script diacritics (script appendix): ◌َ, ◌ِ, ◌ُ, ◌ّ, ◌ْ, ◌٘, ◌ٰ, ◌ً

## Sindhi
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/

### Letter

ن • (nūn)
* The forty-eighth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ن | ـن | ـنـ | نـ |

#### See also

* Arabic script letters: اکر (akharu) (script appendix): ا, ب, ٻ, ڀ, ت, ٿ, ٽ, ٺ, ث, پ, ج, ڄ, جھ, ڃ, چ, ڇ, ح, خ, د, ڌ, ڏ, ڊ, ڍ, ذ, ر, ڙ, ڙھ, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ڦ, ق, ڪ, ک, گ, ڳ, گھ, ڱ, ل, م, ن, ڻ, و, ه, ء, ي
* Previous letter: م
* Next letter: ڻ

## Urdu
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /nuːn/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/, /ɳ/, /ɲ/, /ŋ/

### Letter

ن • (nūn)
* The thirty-second letter of the Urdu abjad.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ن | ـن | ـنـ | نـ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: م (m)
* Next letter: ں (̃)

## Uyghur
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /ne/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/

### Letter

ن • (ne)
* The twenty-third letter of the Uyghur alphabet.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ن | ـن | ـنـ | نـ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: م (m)
* Next letter: ھ (h)

## Yoruba
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /ní/
* (phoneme): IPA: /n/

### Letter

ن (n)
* The fifteenth letter of the Yoruba alphabet in the ajami script.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ن | ـن | ـنـ | نـ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: م
* Next letter: وْ