Nun (letter)

The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek nu (Ν), Etruscan , Latin N, and Cyrillic Н.

The Phoenician letter was also named nūn "fish", but this name has been suggested to descend from a hypothetical Proto-Canaanite word naḥš "snake", based on the letter name in Ethiopic, ultimately from a hieroglyph representing a snake, The letter is named nūn, and is written is several ways depending in its position in the word: Some examples on its uses in Modern Standard Arabic: Nūn is used as a suffix indicating feminine plural verb conjugations; for example هِيَ تَكْتُب hiya taktub ("she writes") becomes هُنَّ يَكْتُبْنَ hunna yaktubna ("they [feminine] write").

Another similar sound is the velar nasal ⟨ŋ⟩ with a leftward hook from the right stem; in Saraiki, this is ݨ, combining nūn and rre ڑ: for example کݨ مݨ، چھݨ چھݨ، ونڄݨ۔ .

After the fall of Mosul, ISIL demanded Assyrian Christians in the city to convert to Islam, pay tribute, or face execution.

[4] Some Christians changed their profile pictures to the letter ن as a symbol of support, calling it the "Mark of the Nazarene".

Nun is also one of the seven letters which receive a special crown (called a tag: plural tagin ) when written in a Sefer Torah.

See Tag (Hebrew writing), Shin, Ayin, Teth, Gimmel, Zayin, and Tzadi.