non

Abbreviation of English Old Norse with n as a placeholder.

non

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Old Norse terms

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

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non (not comparable)

1. Obsolete form of none.
2. (nonstandard) Used to negate or invert the meaning of the following adjective. More properly written as the prefix non-.

non (plural nons)

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

non

1. heaven (incl. Heaven), the sky
2. cold (weather), wind

non

1. with, through, by (the means of)

While non does not mean to have on its own, it is used for this meaning. SIL International's Abau dictionary (Webonary) includes the following example:

Hakwe yeyk krompri non.

I have three canoes.

(literally, “I am with three canoes.”)

• Abau Dictionary © 2020 SIL International (Available online: [2])

From Latin non.

non

1. no

• nun (Biscayan, Soule)

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

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

non (interrogative)

1. inessive indefinite inanimate of nor; where

• “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

non

1. alternative spelling of nun

non

1. in

non

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

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

• IPA^(key): /nɔn/

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• Hyphenation: non
• Rhymes: -ɔn

non f (plural nonnen, diminutive nonnetje n)

1. nun

• zuster
• kloosterzuster

• bedelnon
• nonnenklooster

• → Papiamentu: nònchi (from the diminutive)

• nun
• no

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

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

non

1. not (negates the meaning of the modified verb)
   • 2000, Domingo Frades Gaspar, Vamus a falal: Notas pâ coñocel y platical en nosa fala, Editora regional da Extremadura, Theme II, Chapter 2: Recunquista:

     Non poemos analizar con pormenoris estis siglos, pero tampoco se debi toleral que, sin fundamentus, se poña en duda algo que a Historia documentá nos lega sobre nossa terra.

     We can’t thoroughly analyse these centuries, but one mustn’t tolerate that, unfoundedly, something documented history tells us about our land be questioned.

• Valeš, Miroslav (2021), Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web)‎^[3], 2nd edition, Minde, Portugal: CIDLeS, published 2022, →ISBN, page 210

From Old French non, from Latin nōn.

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/

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• Homophones: nom, noms, nons

non

1. no

non (literary)

1. not
   • 1869, Sully Prudhomme, “La Voie lactée”, in Les Solitudes:

     Êtes-vous toujours en prière ?
     Êtes-vous des astres blessés ?
     Car ce sont des pleurs de lumière,
     Non des rayons, que vous versez.

     Are you still in prayer?
     Are you hurt stars?
     Because it is cries of light,
     Not rays, that you pour.

non m (plural non or nons)

1. a no, a negative response

non

1. no!

• Haitian Creole: non
• Louisiana Creole: non

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

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

non m (plural nons)

1. name

non

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

   debbo reeduujo hino hanndi e ñaametee yottiiɗo fii yo tere makko ɗen gollu no haaniri non.

   A pregnant woman requires a substantial diet for her body to function properly

non

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

   Min non mi yiɗaa ɗun!

   As for me, I especially dislike that

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

• nom, não (reintegrationist)
• num, nun (Galician-Asturian, with verbs)

From Old Galician-Portuguese non, from Latin nōn.

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

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)

   Ás veces é mellor berrar que non calar

   Sometimes it is better to shout than to - keep quiet

4. no (reinforces a mandate in interrogative sentences)

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].

• “non”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
• Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “non”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (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

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/

From French non (“no, not”).

non

1. no

• wi

From French nom (“name”).

non

1. name

• onon

• Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎^[4], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, pages 136-137

Ido numbers ^(edit)

	90
←  8	9	10  →
Cardinal: non     Ordinal: nonesma     Adverbial: nonfoye     Multiplier: nonopla     Fractional: nonima

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

non

1. nine (9)

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

Ultimately derives from Late Latin nonna.

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

non (plural non-non)

1. apocopic form of nona
2. nun

   Synonyms: biarawati, suster

Cognate of Indonesian non-

non (plural non-non)

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

• “non”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

non

1. not

• nom

From Latin nōmen. Compare Friulian non, Dalmatian naun.

non

1. name

From Latin nōn.

• 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]

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    • 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‿/

non

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

From Latin nōn.

non (Hebrew spelling נון)

1. not

   ביינאבﬞינטוראדﬞו איל בﬞארון קי נון אנדה אין קונסיזﬞו די מאלוס.

   Bienaventurado el varon que non anda en consejo de malos.

   Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked.

• n̄ (abbreviation, Medieval Latin)

Uncertain. Maybe from Old Latin noenum, from Proto-Indo-European *né (“not”) + *óynos (“one”). Equivalent to ne + ūnus.^[1] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *nó-h₁ ne (“not at all”) and cognate with the uncertain Gaulish nane (“not”) and Luwian [Term?] (/⁠nā̆na⁠/, “not”).^[2]

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

nōn (negative particle)

1. not

   Lingua Graeca est; potest nōn legī.

   It's Greek; it can not be read.

   Sit ut est, aut nōn sit.

   Let it be as it is, otherwise it would not be.

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

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

• 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.

non

1. man

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

Inherited from Louisiana French non (“no”).

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

non

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

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

   • 1998, Albert Valdman, Thomas A. Klingler, Margaret M. Marshall, Kevin J. Rottet, Dictionary of Louisiana Creole, page 330:

     Non, mo pa las jòdi-la.

     No, I'm not tired today.

Borrowed from Yenish non, from Yiddish נון (nun) or directly from Hebrew נוּן (nun, “nun, the Hebrew letter for fifty”).

non

1. (Jéinesch, cant) fifty

non

1. romanization of ᠨᠣᠨ

• IPA^(key): /nɔ̃/

From French nom.

non

1. name

• nom

From French non.

non

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

   Antonym: wi

From Old French non.

non

1. no

• French: non

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

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

• “non” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• onn

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

• IPA^(key): /noːn/
• Rhymes: -oːn

nōn n

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

Strong a-stem:

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /non/
• Rhymes: -on

non m

1. a form of address from younger to older monks

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “nōn”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[5], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “non”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[6], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

From Latin nōn.

• Rhymes: -on

non

1. no

non

1. not
   • c. 1190, Chrétien de Troyes, Le Roman de Percival:

     Les uns barbez, les autres non

     Some bearded, the others not

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

1. alternative form of nom

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈnõ/

non

1. no, not
   • a. 1284, Alfonso X of Castile, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Códice de los músicos, cantiga 84 (facsimile):

     ſi ou non

     yes or no

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

From Late Latin nonnus (compare Italian nonno).

non m (plural nons)

1. (Puter) grandfather

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

• nona

From French non.

non

1. no

• nun

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

• IPA^(key): /nɔn/

non

1. not

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

From Latin non.

non

1. archaic form of no

From Latin non (par).

non

1. odd (indivisible by two)

   Synonym: impar

   Antonym: par

• “non”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Inherited from Chagatai نَان (nān), from Classical Persian نَان (nān).

non (plural nonlar)

1. bread

• novvoy (“baker”)

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

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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.

non • (嫩)

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

non • (𡽫, 𧀒)

1. mountain

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non

1. barracuda, (blackfin barracuda) Sphyraena qenie

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

• noi

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

• IPA^(key): [nòn]

non

1. something stored away, cache

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

non m

1. alternative form of nan