נון
See also: נו״ן
Hebrew
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Aramaic נונא (nūnā, “fish”), ultimately possibly from Akkadian 𒄩 (KU6 /nūnu/), possibly from Sumerian.
Noun
נון • (nun) m (plural indefinite נונין)
- (archaic) fish, found mostly in compounds to form names of sea creatures.
References
- Kogan, Leonid (2015) Genealogical Classification of Semitic. The Lexical Isoglosses, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 274
- H5125 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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