nun meaning in Malayalam
കന്യാസ്ത്രീ
/nʌn/
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nun in Malayalam: കന്യാസ്ത്രീ. 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.
Malayalam words for nun
- കന്യാസ്ത്രീ
English meaning of nun
- 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.
- noun A member of a similar female community in other confessions.
- noun A prostitute.
- noun A kind of pigeon with the feathers on its head like the hood of a nun.
Synonyms of nun
nun in other languages
Questions about nun in Malayalam
- What is the meaning of nun in Malayalam?
- Nun in Malayalam is കന്യാസ്ത്രീ.
- nun എന്നതിന്റെ മലയാളം അർത്ഥം എന്താണ്?
- Nun: കന്യാസ്ത്രീ.
- 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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Malayalam 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 Malayalam words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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