bun

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Middle English bunne (wheat cake, bun), from Anglo-Norman bugne (bump on the head; fritter), from Frankish *bungo ("lump, clump") (compare Dutch bonk (clump, clot, cluster of fruits)), from Proto-Germanic *bunkōn, *bungōn. More at bunch.

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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. (slang, UK) A drunken spree.
  4. (Internet, slang) A newbie.
  5. (dialect, obsolete) A squirrel or rabbit.

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

  1. (UK, slang) To smoke cannabis.

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Latin bonus

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bun m. (feminine bune)

  1. good (positive)

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[edit] Aromanian

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From Latin bonus.

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bun m. (feminine bunã)

  1. good

[edit] Dalmatian

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From Latin bonus.

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bun m. (feminine buna)

  1. good

[edit] Irish

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From Old Irish bun.

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  • IPA: [bˠʊn̪ˠ]

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bun m.

  1. base
  2. foundation
  3. bottom
  4. trunk

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First declension

Bare forms:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative bun bunanna
Vocative a bhuin a bhunanna
Genitive buin bunanna
Dative bun bunanna

Forms with the definite article:

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an bun na bunanna
Genitive an bhuin na mbunanna
Dative leis an mbun

don bhun

leis na bunanna

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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.

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bun (hiragana ぶん)

  1. : part; share
  2. : sentence, writings

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bun

  1. Rafsi of bruna.

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From Proto-Celtic, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰudʰ-mn. Cognate with Old English botm (English bottom), Sanskrit बुध्न (budhna), Latin fundus, Ancient Greek πυθμήν (puthmēn).

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bun m.

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

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Latin bonus.

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bun 4 nom/acc forms

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

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bun m. (plural bunifeminine equivalent bună)

  1. (rare) grandfather
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  1. ^ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary

[edit] Scottish Gaelic

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From Old Irish bun.

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

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

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bun

  1. (anatomy) bone
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