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Etymology
Old English non#Old English|n�n, from a Germanic borrowing of classical Latin nona|n�na �ninth hour� (short for nona|n�na hora#Latin|h�ra), feminine of nonus|n�nus �ninth�. Cognate with Flemish noen, obsolete German Non, Norwegian non#Norwegian|non.

Pronunciation
IPA|/nu�n/
audio|en-us-noon.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-u�n|-u�n

Noun
en-noun

1. obsolete The ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.
2. time|Time of day when the sun is in its zenith; twelve o'clock in the day, midday.
3. The corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

#* 1885: When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents � Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 17

Synonyms
noontide, midday, twelve (o'clock)

Translations
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Arabic: Arab|ظ�ر IPAchar|(�óher) m
Breton: kreisteiz m
Chinese: 正� (zhèng w�)
Danish: middag
Dutch: middag m
Esperanto: tagmezo
Ewe: �d�
Finnish: keskipäivä
French: midi m
German: Mittag m
Guaraní: asaje, asajepyte
Hungarian: dél
Indonesian: tengah hari
Interlingua: mediedie, meridie
Italian: mezzogiorno m
Japanese: 正� (����, sh�go), �� (���, mahiru)
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Korean: �� (jeong-o)
Kurdish: KUchar|�������
Latin: meridies m
Maltese: nofsinhar m
Polish: po�udnie n
Portuguese: meio-dia m
Romanian: amiaz� f
Russian: полден� (pólden�) m
Serbian: подне (podne} n
Slovene: poldan m
Spanish: mediodía m
Swahili: adhuuri (nc 9/10), saa sita
Swedish: middag c
Tagalog: tanghali, n.t.
Tupinambá: asaîé
Turkish: ö�le
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