Aramaic Letters: Noon

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The next letter of the Aramaic Alphabet is called Noon, pronounced noon, to rhyme with words like soon or moon. It corresponds to the Hebrew letter Nun in the Hebrew Alphabet. The letters in the Aramaic Alphabet are almost identical to those in Hebrew, but have slightly different names and sometimes slightly different sounds.

  Aramaic audio: Listen to the sound of Noon.

Here is what the Aramaic letter Noon looks like:

 
Noon is pronounced with a n sound, like the words Naaman, Nahum or Noah.

Like Kap and Meem, Noon is one of the Aramaic letters with a special form when it occurs at the end of a word.

Here is what the final form looks like:


The final form has a tail which goes below the line.


Here is how to write Noon:



Noon is one of the four Aramaic letters on the Dreidel, which is a spinning top used for playing games during the festival of Hannukah.

Practise writing Noon in the grid lines below:









Both forms of Noon have the Gematria (numerical value) of 50.

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