Nun (Letter) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nun is the fourteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet n n (in abjadi order). It is the third letter in Thaana, pronounced as "noonu." Its sound value is n]. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek nu ( ), Etruscan, Latin N, and Cyrillic . Nun(Hebrew: ) is thought to have come from a pictogram of a snake (the Hebrew word for snake, nachash begins with a Nun and snake in Aramaic is nun) or eel. Some have hypothesized a hieroglyph of a fish in water for its origin (in Arabic, n n means large fish or whale). The Phoenician letter was named n n "fish," but the glyph has been suggested to descend from a hypothetical Proto-Canaanite na "snake," based on the name in Ethiopic, ultimately from a hieroglyph representing a snake, (see Middle Bronze Age alphabets). Na in modern Arabic literally means "bad luck." The cognate letter in Ge'ez and descended Semitic languages of Ethiopia is nehas, which also means "brass."