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nun meaning in Kannada

ಸನ್ಯಾಸಿನಿ

/nʌn/

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Ireland/nʊn/

nun in Kannada: ಸನ್ಯಾಸಿನಿ. In English, nun means 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.

Kannada words for nun

ಸನ್ಯಾಸಿನಿ

English meaning of nun

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
  3. noun A prostitute.
  4. noun A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.

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Questions about nun in Kannada

What is the meaning of nun in Kannada?
Nun in Kannada is ಸನ್ಯಾಸಿನಿ.
nun ಪದದ ಕನ್ನಡ ಅರ್ಥ ಏನು?
Nun: ಸನ್ಯಾಸಿನಿ.
What does nun mean in English?
Nun means 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.

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Kannada words: machine translation by IndicTrans2 (AI4Bharat, MIT license), kept only when it translates back to “nun”. English meanings adapted from Wiktionary: nun (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Kannada words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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