dun

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1 1.1.1 Pronunciation 1.1.2 Noun 1.1.2.1 Translations 1.1.3 Adjective 1.1.3.1 Translations 1.1.4 Derived terms 1.1.5 See also 1.2 Etymology 2 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Compounds 1.2.1.2 Translations 1.2.2 Verb 1.2.2.1 Translations 1.3 Etymology 3 1.3.1 Pronunciation 1.3.2 Noun 1.4 Etymology 4 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Translations 1.5 Etymology 5 1.5.1 Verb 1.6 Anagrams 2 Danish 2.1 Etymology 2.2 Pronunciation 2.3 Noun 2.3.1 Inflection 2.3.2 See also 3 Dutch 3.1 Adjective 3.1.1 Antonyms 4 Galician 4.1 Etymology 4.2 Contraction 5 Kiput 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Noun 6 Mandarin 6.1 Pinyin syllable 6.1.1 Usage notes 7 Old English 7.1 Etymology 7.2 Noun 7.2.1 Derived terms 7.2.2 Related terms 7.2.3 Descendants 8 Swedish 8.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology 1

This definition is lacking an etymology or has an incomplete etymology. You can help Wiktionary by giving it a proper etymology.

[edit] Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʌn

[edit] Noun

dun (countable and uncountable; plural duns)

1. (color/colour, uncountable) a brownish grey colour.

   dun colour:

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dun (not comparable)

1. (color/colour) of a brownish grey colour.

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• dun-bar

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• bawn
• durmast oak
• Appendix:Colours

[edit] Etymology 2

Origin uncertain.

[edit] Noun

dun (plural duns)

1. (countable) A collector of debts.

   “Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours”, G. Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Ch. 18

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• dun letter

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to dun (third-person singular simple present duns, present participle dunning, simple past and past participle dunned)

1. (transitive) To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 577:

     Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.

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[edit] Etymology 3

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[edit] Pronunciation

The “u” is long, so the word is also spelled “doon”.

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dun (plural duns)

1. A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.

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dun (plural duns)

1. (countable) A newly hatched, immature mayfly

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[edit] Etymology 5

from do

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dun

1. (informal) Eye dialect spelling of done: simple past tense and past participle of do.

   He dun it before and he dun it again.

   Now, ya dun it!

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• Anagrams of DNU

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse dúnn (“‘down’”).

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /duːn/, [d̥uːˀn]

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dun n. (singular definite dunet, plural indefinite dun)

1. down (soft, immature feathers)

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[edit] See also

• Dun on the Danish Wikipedia.da.Wikipedia

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[edit] Dutch

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dun (declined dunne, comparative dunner, superlative dunste)

1. thin, slender

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• dicht

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[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology

From contraction of preposition de (“‘of’”) + masculine article un (“‘a, one’”)

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dun m. (feminine dunha, masculine plural duns, feminine plural dunhas)

1. of a, of one; from a, from one

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[edit] Kiput

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *daqun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahun.

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dun

1. leaf

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dun

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, dūn, dún, dǔn, or dùn.

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English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

Cognate with Old Irish dun “hill, hill fort” Middle Dutch dune “sandy hill”

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dūn

1. hill, mountain

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• ofdune: downwards, literally, “from the hill”

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• tūn: enclosure, garden, yard; farm; village, town

[edit] Descendants

• English down
• English dune
• English London

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[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

dun n.

1. down, what grows on young birds