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ن — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

nun
Pronunciation:Standard: /nun/
miscOrigin: Native Pashto → PashtoVerified sense 1
Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

ن (nun) is a Pashto misc meaning “thirty-sixth letter of the Pashto alphabet; number 50 in the abjad system” in English او په اردو کې د «حرف، اکشر، پشتو» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards.

Meanings3

ماناوې او تعریفونه
1
thirty-sixth letter of the Pashto alphabet; number 50 in the abjad system
حرف، اکشر، پشتو
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2
[Classical] It is sometimes changed into ن , as لنبه for لمبه ʻa flame.ʼ[classical]
Page 893 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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3
[Classical] ن nūn , the twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic, and twenty-ninth of the Persian, is the thirty-sixth letter of the Puś̱ẖto alphabet, and corresponds to Sanskrit न . It is one of the dental letters, and has the sound of English n ; and in the application of the Arabic letters to denote numbers, it stands for 50.[classical]
Page 957 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto
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Idioms1

اصطلاحات
Idiom

یلون ن د جرابی

nylon stockings

Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې
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Native Pashto

Native Pashto (Raverty 1860)

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Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword ن (nun) functions as a misc in standard Pashto lexicography. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.

Phonological & Dialectal Realization

Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.

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Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه
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