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bun

bun

See also: BUN, bún, bùn, bûn, bün, bűn, and bun-

English

Noun

bun ‎(plural buns)

  1. A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.
  2. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
  3. (Ireland) A cupcake.
  4. (slang, Britain) A drunken spree.
  5. (Internet, slang) A newbie.
  6. (informal, typically used in the plural) A buttock.
Synonyms
  • (hairstyle): French roll
Derived terms
  • (hairstyle): Princess Leia bun
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Translations

Etymology 2

From bunny?

Noun

bun ‎(plural buns)

  1. (dialect, archaic) A rabbit or sometimes a squirrel.

Etymology 3

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

Verb

bun ‎(third-person singular simple present buns, present participle bunning, simple past and past participle bunned)

  1. Eye dialect spelling of burn.
    1. (Carribean and MLE, slang) To smoke cannabis.
    2. (MLE, slang) To shoot.
      • 2004, MC Forcer, guest on Lethal Bizzle, "Pow!"
        Don't care about your crew, bun them anyday
      • 2011, Jme, "Mike Lowery"
        Some man acting dumb, think's he's a gun-man, wanna bring me drama. How you gonna bun me?

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Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bhunā, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ‎(“to be wake, keep watch”).

Noun

bun f

  1. hut (of mountain shepherds), chalet, fenced area (for cattle)
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Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin bonus. Compare Daco-Romanian bun.

Adjective

bun m ‎(feminine bunã)

  1. good

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bun m ‎(feminine buna)

  1. good

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish bun ‎(“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bˠʊnˠ/

Noun

bun m ‎(genitive singular buin, nominative plural bunanna)

  1. base, bottom
  2. stock, stump, trunk
  3. lower end
  4. extremity
  5. basis, origin, foundation
  6. basic provision
  7. settled state
  8. source, direction
  9. trace
  10. (card games) score required to win game

Declension

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Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
bun bhun mbun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "bun" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “1 bun” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Japanese

Romanization

bun

  1. rōmaji reading of ぶん

Ligurian

Adjective

bun

  1. good

Lojban

Rafsi

bun

  1. rafsi of bruna.

Old French

Adjective

bun m ‎(oblique and nominative feminine singular bune)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of bon

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic [Term?], from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-mn̥. Cognate with Old English botm (English bottom), Sanskrit बुध्न ‎(budhna), Latin fundus, Ancient Greek πυθμήν ‎(puthmḗn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bun/

Noun

bun m ‎(genitive bona, nominative plural bonai)

  1. base
  2. bottom
  3. butt
  4. end

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Nasalization
bun bun
pronounced with /v(ʲ)-/ 		mbun
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • “1 bun” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bun/

Etymology 1

From Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- ‎(“to show favor, revere”).

Adjective

bun m, n ‎(feminine singular bună, masculine plural buni, feminine and neuter plural bune)

  1. good
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Etymology 2

Either from the above word or from a Vulgar Latin *avunus, ultimately from the same Indo-European root as avus. (Compare the diminutive avunculus, avonculus), probably influenced by or confused with bonus. Compare also Friulian von ‎(“grandfather”), Calabrian and Piedmontese bona ("grandmother") [1].

Noun

bun m ‎(plural buni, feminine equivalent bună)

  1. (uncommon) grandfather
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References
  1. ↑ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish bun.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pun/

Noun

bun m ‎(genitive buna or buin, plural buin or bunan)

  1. bottom, base, foundation
  2. butt, stub

Derived terms

Somali

Noun

bun ?

  1. coffee

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English bone

Noun

bun

  1. (anatomy) bone
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 2:21 (translation here):
      Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.
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Etymology

From Middle English bunne ‎(“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne ‎(“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo ‎(“little clump”), diminutive of *bungo ‎(“lump, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô ‎(“clump, lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- ‎(“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk ‎(“clump, clot, cluster of fruits”). More at bunch.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʌn/
  • Rhymes: -ʌn

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