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3-letter words (1 found)

PUN,

2-letter words (3 found)

NU,UN,UP,

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All 3 letters words made out of pun

pun upn pnu npu unp nup

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Definitions and meaning of pun

pun

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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) 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.

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: a Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

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): [ˈpʊn]
  • 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 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, slang)

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /pon/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /pʊn/
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Rhymes: -un

Adverb

pun (Jawi spelling ڤون)

  1. also
  2. even

Synonyms

  • juga

Related terms

  • -pun

Descendants

  • Indonesian: pun

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 (definite pȕnī, Cyrillic spelling пу̏н)

  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, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun.

Noun

pūn

  1. origin
  2. beginning

Source: wiktionary.org