nun
A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and…A member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
» Are you really a nun?
Bist du wirklich Nonne?
Sind Sie wirklich Nonne?
Ты на самом деле монахиня?
Ты действительно монахиня?
Ты в самом деле монахиня?
Ты правда монахиня?
Ти дійсно чорниця?
Ти дійсно монахиня?
Meaning
5 sensesA member of a Christian religious community of women who live by certain vows and usually wear a habit, (Roman Catholicism, specifically) those living together in a cloister.
Nonne, Ordensschwester, Klosterschwester
мона́хиняmonáxinja, мона́шкаmonáška
мона́хиняmonáxynja, мона́шкаmonáška, черни́цяčernýcja
(broadly)A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
a Buddhist nun
A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
нунnun
(UK, archaic, slang)A prostitute.
Examples
44 sentencesAre you really a nun?
Ти дійсно чорниця?
ruТы на самом деле монахиня?
deBist du wirklich Nonne?
Mary wants to be a nun.
ruМэри хочет быть монахиней.
I disguised myself as a nun.
I'm thinking of becoming a nun.
Mary plans to become a nun.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“From Middle English nonne, nunne, from Old English nunne (“nun”), from Late Latin nonna (“nun, tutor”), originally (along with masculine form nonnus (“man”)) a term of address for elderly persons, perhaps from children's speech, reminiscent of nana, like papa etc. Doublet of nonna.
Borrowed from the letter’s name in the respective language. Doublet of nu.
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