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pun

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: pŭn, IPA^(key): /pʌn/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /pʊn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

Etymology 1

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

Verb

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
2. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

Translations

Noun

pun (plural puns)

1. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

   Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words

   Hypernym: joke

   Hyponym: antanaclasis

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (“fen”).

Noun

pun (plural puns or pun)

1. (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”).

Etymology 3

From Hindi [Term?].

Alternative forms

• pund

Noun

pun (plural puns)

1. (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.

References

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “pun”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

Anagrams

• N-up, NPU, UPN, nup

Chuukese

Conjunction

pun

1. because

Dalmatian

Alternative forms

• puan
• pen (Ragusan dialect)

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

pun m

1. (Vegliot) bread

Iban

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *puhun (compare Malay pohon), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pun]

Noun

pun

1. tree (large woody plant)

Indonesian

Etymology

Inherited from Malay pun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun/, [ˈpun]
• Hyphenation: pun

Adverb

pun

1. also, too

   Synonym: juga

2. even, though, although, nevertheless

   Synonyms: biar, meski, kendati, saja

3. besides
4. any, every

Further reading

• “pun” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Kapampangan

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *puqun, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun. Compare Tagalog puno, Malay pohon, Indonesian pohon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun/ [ˈpun]

Noun

pun

1. trunk of a tree
2. origin, source

   Synonym: ibat

See also

Malay

Alternative forms

• pon (informal, pronunciation respelling)

Etymology

Probably from Proto-Austronesian *pa (“still, first, yet”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pon]
• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: pun

Adverb

pun (Jawi spelling ڤون)

1. also, too

   Synonym: juga

2. even

Related terms

• -pun

Descendants

• Indonesian: pun
• → Hokkien: 呠 (pún)
• → Teochew: 呠

Further reading

• “pun” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pun]

Etymology 1

Verb

pun

1. inflection of pune:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin punicus.

Noun

pun m (plural puni)

1. Punic, Carthaginian

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьlnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pílˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pûn/

Adjective

pȕn (Cyrillic spelling пу̏н, definite pȕnī)

1. full, filled
2. fleshy, plump
3. full, complete
4. occupied (of room)

Declension

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun/ [ˈpũn]
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: pun

Noun

pun m (uncountable)

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of discharging a firearm

   Synonym: pum

2. (onomatopoeia, vulgar) the sound of flatulence

Further reading

• “pun”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Sundanese

Etymology

From Old Sundanese pun. Cognate with Old Javanese pun, Javanese ꦥꦸꦤ꧀ (pun).

Article

pun (Sundanese script ᮕᮥᮔ᮪)

1. direct marker placed before names or terms of address of people
2. (lemes) direct marker placed before kinship terms; my

   Synonym: -ing (obsolete)

   pun bojo ― my wife

   pun anak ― my child

   Abdi ka dieu sareng pun bapa ― I'm going here with my father

Usage notes

• Used of someone in a position higher relative to another (usually the addressee), or used out of respect for the addressee.

Further reading

• "POEN", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij

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