Nun
Nun - pronounced with a push of the tongue against the palate and the back walls of the teeth - like the English letter "N".
Nun (Arabic نون, nun) is the twenty-fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. Nun is the fourteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician nūn, Hebrew nun נ, Aramaic nun, Syriac nūn ܢܢ.
Origins
Nun is believed to be derived from an Egyptian hieroglyph of a snake (the Hebrew word for snake, nachash begins with a Nun and snake in Aramaic is nun) or eel.
The Phoenician letter was named nūn, but the glyph has been suggested to descend from a hypothetical Proto-Canaanite "snake", based on the name in Ethiopic, ultimately from a hieroglyph representing a snake.
«Nun» and the root of the word
The letter nūn (ن) is one of the most commonly used letters in Arabic.
It is necessary to study the possible inflectional load that the letter nūn (ن) can have on the root of the word. It is required to understand the theses that in some cases, the letter nūn (ن) can play the role of a modifier or connector that changes the meaning of the root, and in other cases, it can have its own separate meaning, which is added to the meaning of the root.
One of the theories about the relationship between the position of the letter nūn (ن) in the root of the word and its semantic characteristics suggests that in some cases the letter nūn (ن) at the beginning of the root can indicate the foreign origin of the word.
The hypothesis of the letter nūn (ن) as a marker of the foreign origin of some roots needs to be explored more deeply, but one of the examples of the Quran clearly demonstrates its possibility: we are talking about the word "soul" (وَالْأَنْفُسِ, wal-anfusi) and the root of this word "nūn fā sin (ن ف س)".
It can be assumed that in this case the letter nūn (ن) marks the etymon "fā sīn" with a foreign characteristic, which historically can come from the ancient Greek, and even earlier Proto-Caucasian root *psa - which is the root basis of the word "psyche" - «Soul». See the article «Psyche»
We see here historical, semantic and phonetic parallels and correlations:
1. The Quranic text corpus was not created in a vacuum, the ancient Greek language had an active influence on the Arabic language of that time. The so-called "Incense Trail" from ancient times connected Ethiopia and Yemen, through Mecca and Yathrib with Damascus and Constantinople. The interpenetration of languages is quite natural. In turn, the ancient Greek language is historically connected with the region of the Caucasus, as evidenced by the myths about Jason and the Argonauts who sailed the seas to Colchis - West Georgia, as well as the myth of Prometheus, chained as you know in the mountains of the Caucasus).
2. Semantically, the word "soul" (وَالْأَنْفُسِ, wal-anfusi) and the word "psyche" are very close.
3. Phonetically, the root *psa and the etymon "fā sīn" in the root "nūn fā sīn (ن ف س)" are consonant if we allow for a linguistic shift and the transformation of the letter fā into the letter "p", which occupies the initial position in the Proto-Caucasian root *psa.
Psychology's view of the letter «Nun»
In particular, Carl_Jung believed that the letter «N» has an archetypal meaning associated with beginnings and new possibilities. It is also associated with reason and understanding, and is a powerful symbol for a person's spiritual path. In this perspective, the letter «N» is associated with such qualities as inspiration, understanding, intelligence and spirituality.
Carl Gustav Jung believed that letters are symbols that contain archetypal information and energy. For him, the letters were powerful and influential symbols that connected humanity to its collective unknown. He believed that each letter contains special symbolic qualities that can affect the psychophysical state of a person and influence his life.
(68:1) Nun (Arab. نَ, noon), the Philosophy, and miths they (making).
