A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.

One of the original terms used to describe a religious woman. It is now used to refer particularly to those religious women who have embraced the contemplative* form of religious life such as the cloistered or discalced Carmelites. The ARs also have communities of cloistered contemplative nuns. The term Sister* often refers to a religious woman who has chosen a more active life style which includes some form of active apostolate.

a female living in a regular order under vows of poverty, chastity and obedience

As in Theravadin countries, Tibetan women practitioners (generically called ani) could not traditionally attain the full ordination of bhikshuni, since the ordination lineage was held to have died out. There were numerous communities of ani, but there were fewer of them than male monastics and their status was lower.

The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n.

Nun is the fourteenth letter of many Semitic abjads, including Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew and Arabic alphabet (in abjadi order). It is the third letter in Thaana(Þ‚)- pronounced as "noonu". Its sound value is .

Nun, in the Hebrew Bible, was a man from the Tribe of Ephraim, grandson of Ammihud, son of Elishama, and father of Joshua. He grew up in and may have lived his entire life in the Israelites' Egyptian captivity, where the Egyptians "made life bitter for them with harsh labor at mortar and bricks and with all sorts of tasks in the field." In Aramaic, "nun" means "fish."

The watery abyss of chaos.

Watery void of chaos, present before the existence of the world.

(Pronounced ‘Noon'.) The primeval waters of chaos before Creation.

The primeval waters of chaos. The primeval mound of creation arose from the Nun. The depths of the netherworld were also associated with the Nun.obelisk A tall, tapering four-sided monument topped by a pyramidion.