non

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Translingual

Symbol

non

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Old Norse.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Norse terms

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /nɑn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /nɒn/

Adverb

non (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of none.

Noun

non (plural nons)

1. (Malaysia, slang) A non-Muslim citizen.

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin non.

Adverb

non

1. no

Basque

Etymology

From Proto-Basque *no- (interrogative stem) +‎ -n (inessive suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /non/ [nõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: non

Adverb

non (interrogative)

1. inessive indefinite inanimate of nor; where

Derived terms

Further reading

• “non”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
• “non”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Chiricahua

Noun

non

1. Alternative spelling of nun

Chuukese

Preposition

non

1. in

Cimbrian

Noun

non

1. plural of nono (“grandfather”): grandparents

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch nonne, which ultimately derives from Late Latin nonna.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔn/
• Hyphenation: non
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

non f (plural nonnen, diminutive nonnetje n)

1. nun

Synonyms

• zuster
• kloosterzuster

Derived terms

• bedelnon
• nonnenklooster

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: nònchi (from the diminutive)

Fala

Alternative forms

• nun
• no

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn (“not”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnon/
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: non

Adverb

non

1. not (negates the meaning of the modified verb)

References

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021) Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[1], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN

French

Etymology

From Old French non, from Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/
• Homophones: nom, noms, nons

Adverb

non

1. no

Conjunction

non (literary)

1. not

Noun

non m (plural non or nons)

1. a no, a negative response

Interjection

non

1. no!

Derived terms

Descendants

• Louisiana Creole: non

Further reading

• “non”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin nōmen, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥.

Noun

non m (plural nons)

1. name

Fula

Adverb

non

1. a deictic element referring to either a preceding adverb or the preceding statement

Particle

non

1. a particle of insistance which can be added to a conjunction, interjection or pronoun

References

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

Galician

Alternative forms

• não (reintegrationist)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nʊ̃ŋ], [ˈnõŋ]
  • Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: non

Adverb

non

1. no, not, not at all
2. no (used to show disagreement or negation)
3. no (used to reinforce an affirmation as negation of the alternative - but it can be omitted without changing the meaning)

4. no (reinforces a mandate in interrogative sentences)

Usage notes

Non usually contracts in speech with a following definite article or personal pronoun (a, as, o, os). The result of this contraction, in the past written as nono, no-no, n'o, among other forms, is [nona], [nono], [nonas], [nono] in the east and central areas and [na], [no], [nas], [nos] in the west. Today these contractions are rarely shown in written Galician:

Non o queres? ("You don't want it?"): IPA^(key): (central) [nõnoˈkɛɾɪs], (western) [noˈkɛs].

References

• “non”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “non”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “non”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “non”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Haitian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/

Etymology 1

From French non (“no, not”).

Adverb

non

1. no

Antonyms

• wi

Etymology 2

From French nom (“name”).

Noun

non

1. name

Related terms

• onon

Ido

Etymology

From English nine, German neun, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥. In length from English nona-, French nona-, Italian nono, Spanish nono.

Numeral

non

1. nine (9)

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnɔn]
• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Hyphenation: non

Etymology 1

Ultimately derives from Late Latin nonna.

• The sense of nun is a Dutch non (“nun”), cf above.

Noun

non (plural non-non)

1. apocopic form of nona
2. nun

   Synonyms: biarawati, suster

Etymology 2

Cognate of Indonesian non-

Noun

non (plural non-non)

1. see kaum non (“non-cooperative groups of Dutch colonial government”)

Further reading

• “non” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Interlingua

Adverb

non

1. not

Istriot

Alternative forms

• nom

Etymology

From Latin nōmen. Compare Friulian non, Dalmatian naun.

Noun

non

1. name

Italian

Etymology

From Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /non/
  • (prevocalic) IPA^(key): [no.n‿]
  • preconsonantally the final /-n/ assimilates the place of articulation of the following consonant.
  • (stressed, prepausal) IPA^(key): [ˈnon.nə̆], [ˈnon]
    • Rhymes: -on
• (unmonitored speech, preconsonantal, very common) IPA^(key): /n/, usually assimilates the place of articulation of the following consonant, though some speakers realize this as [n] in all positions.
  • Homophones: 'n, in, un, un'
• (unmonitored speech, prevocalic, less common) IPA^(key): /n‿/, ^*/n‿/

Adverb

non

1. not
2. un-
3. don't

Ladino

Etymology

From Latin nōn.

Adverb

non (Hebrew spelling נון)

1. not

Latin

Alternative forms

• n̄ (abbreviation, Medieval Latin)

Etymology

Uncertain. Maybe from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”) + *óynos (“one”). Equivalent to ne + ūnus. Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *nó-h₁ ne (“not at all”) and cognate with the uncertain Gaulish nane (“not”) and Luwian [Term?] (/⁠nā̆na⁠/, “not”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈnoːn/, [ˈnoːn]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈnon/, [ˈnɔn]

Particle

nōn (negative particle)

1. not

Usage notes

The particle nōn may be used to negate verbs, adjectives, nouns, or phrases.

Derived terms

Related terms

• nē (“not”, + subjunctive)
• nī (“if not, that not”)

Descendants

References

Further reading

• non in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• non in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• non in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Lote

Noun

non

1. man

References

• Greg Pearson, René van den Berg, Lote Grammar Sketch (2008)

Louisiana Creole

Etymology

Inherited from Louisiana French non (“no”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -nɔ̃, -ɔ̃
• Homophone: nom

Particle

non

1. no; a word used to indicate disagreement or negation

   Antonyms: wé (more common), wi (less common)

Manchu

Romanization

non

1. Romanization of ᠨᠣᠨ

Mauritian Creole

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/

Etymology 1

From French nom.

Noun

non

1. name

Alternative forms

• nom

Etymology 2

From French non.

Adverb

non

1. no; a word used to indicate disagreement or negation

   Antonym: wi

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French non.

Interjection

non

1. no

Descendants

• French: non

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse nón, from Latin nona (hora) (“ninth hour”). Akin to English noon and nones.

Noun

non n (definite singular nonet, indefinite plural non, definite plural nona)

1. (historical) the ninth hour after dawn (about 3pm)
2. a meal eaten around 3-5 pm
3. (Catholicism) none, nones

Derived terms

• nonsmat m
• Nonshaug (a common Norwegian toponym)
• Nonshei (toponym common in Trøndelag)
• Nonshøa (toponym common in Oppdal and Upper Gudbrandsdal)
• Nonsfjell (toponym, almost not used in Eastern Norway)
• Nonfjell (toponym, used only in Western and Southern Norway)

References

• “non” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• onn

Old English

Etymology 1

From Latin nōna (“ninth; ninth hour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /noːn/

Noun

nōn n

1. (historical) Nones, the ninth hour after sunrise
2. (Christianity) Nones, the religious service appointed to this hour

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Synonyms

• (time): nōntīd, nōntīma
• (religious service): nōnsang

Derived terms

• nōngereord, nōnmete, nōnsang, nōntīd, nōntīma
• ofernōn (“afternoon”)

Descendants

• Middle English: non, none, noon, noun, noune
  • English: noon

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /non/

Noun

non m

1. a form of address from younger to older monks

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “nōn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “non”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin nōn.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -on

Interjection

non

1. no

Adverb

non

1. not

Noun

non oblique singular, m (oblique plural nons, nominative singular nons, nominative plural non)

1. Alternative form of nom

Old Galician-Portuguese

Etymology

From Latin nōn (“no”), from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”) + *óynos (“one”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnõ/

Adverb

non

1. no, not

   • ſi ou non

     yes or no

Descendants

• Fala: non
• Galician: non
• Portuguese: não

Romansch

Etymology

From Late Latin nonnus (compare Italian nonno).

Noun

non m (plural nons)

1. (Puter) grandfather

Synonyms

• (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Surmiran) tat
• (Vallader) bazegner, bapsegner

Related terms

• nona

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French non.

Interjection

non

1. no

Sicilian

Alternative forms

• nun

Etymology

Dialectal variant of Sicilian nun, from Latin nōn. Maybe influenced from Italian non.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔn/

Adverb

non

1. not

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnon/ [ˈnõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: non

Etymology 1

From Latin non.

Adverb

non

1. Archaic form of no.

Etymology 2

From Latin non (par).

Adjective

non

1. odd (indivisible by two)

   Synonym: impar

   Antonym: par

Further reading

• “non”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Uzbek

Etymology

From Persian نان (nân).

Noun

non (plural nonlar)

1. bread

Declension

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [nɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [nɔŋ˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [nɔŋ˧˧]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *k-nɔːn, from *k-rn-ɔːn, which Ferlus considered an infixed derivation of Proto-Vietic *kɔːn (“child”). Cognate with Chut [Rục] kunɔːn¹, Semai kenon (“child”), Juang kɔnɔn ("child, son, the young one; young"), Khmu [Cuang] krnɔːn ("uterus"). Likely received some semantic influence from 嫩 (MC nwonH) (SV: nộn) as well.

Adjective

non • (嫩)

1. young, tender, green
2. new
3. mild
4. premature
5. not up to the mark

See also

Etymology 2

Noun

non • (𡽫, 𧀒)

1. mountain

See also

Vurës

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

non

1. barracuda, (blackfin barracuda) Sphyraena qenie

Further reading

Catriona Malau (2011-05-05) Dictionary of Vurës

Western Apache

Alternative forms

• noi

Etymology

Cognates: Navajo nooʼ, Chiricahua nun, Mescalero nun, Plains Apache nǫǫ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [nòn]

Noun

non

1. something stored away, cache

Zazaki

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈnon]
• Hyphenation: non

Noun

non

1. Alternative form of nan