Sun

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sun"

English

The Sun (1)

The Sun's astronomical symbol

Etymology

From Middle English sunne, from Old English sunne (“sun; the Sun”), from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from the heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh̥₂uén (“sun; the Sun”), oblique form of *sóh₂wl̥. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Low German Sünn, German Sonne, Faroese sunna, Icelandic sunna, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō). More at sun.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sʌn/

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Proper noun

the Sun

2. The star at the center of the Solar System, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
4. The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
6. (newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.

Related terms

• sun
• currant bun

Translations

star

• Abkhaz: Амра (Āmrā)
• Afrikaans: Son
• Akkadian: 𒌓 m (šamšu)
• Albanian: Dielli m (definite), diell (sq) m
• Amharic: ፀሐይ (ṣ́äḥäy)
• Arabic: اَلشَّمْس‎ f (aš-šams) (definite), شَمْس‎ (ar) f (šams)
• Armenian: Արեգակ (hy) (Aregak)
• Asturian: sol (ast) m, sol (ast) m
• Avar: Бакъ (Baq̇̄)
• Azerbaijani: Günəş (az)
• Bashkir: Ҡояш (Qoyaš), ҡояш (qoyaš)
• Belarusian: Со́нца n (Sónca)
• Bengali: সূর্য (surjô)
• Breton: Heol m
• Bulgarian: Слъ̀нце n (Slǎ̀nce)
• Burmese: နေ (my) (ne)
• Catalan: Sol (ca) m
• Chechen: Малх (Malχ)
• Cherokee: ᏅᏓᎡᎨᎯ (nvdaegehi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 太陽, 太阳 (taai³ joeng⁴)

  Hakka: 日頭, 日头 (ngit-thèu)

  Mandarin: 太陽 (zh), 太阳 (zh) (tàiyáng)

  Min Nan: 日頭 (zh-min-nan), 日头 (ji̍t-thâu, li̍t-thâu), 太陽 (zh-min-nan), 太阳 (thài-iâng)

• Chukchi: Тиркытир (Tirkytir)
• Chuvash: Хӗвел (Hĕvel)
• Czech: Slunce (cs) n
• Danish: Solen (da)
• Dhivehi: އިރު‎ (dv) (iru)
• Dutch: Zon (nl) c
• Erzya: Чи (Či)
• Esperanto: suno (eo)
• Estonian: päike (et), Päike (et)
• Faroese: Sólin
• Finnish: Aurinko (fi)
• French: Soleil (fr) m
• Galician: sol (gl) m
• Gamilaraay: yaraay
• Georgian: მზე (mze)
• German: Sonne (de) f
• Greek: Ήλιος (el) m (Ílios)

  Ancient: ἀγαθό δαίμων m (agathó daímōn), Φᾰέθων m (Phaéthōn)

• Gujarati: સૂર્ય (gu) (sūrya)
• Hebrew: שֶׁמֶשׁ‎ (he) (shémesh), חַמָּה‎ (he) (khamá)
• Hindi: सूर्य (hi) m (sūrya), ख़्वुरशेद m (xvurśed), सूरज (hi) m (sūraj)
• Hungarian: nap (hu), Nap (hu)
• Icelandic: sól (is), Sól (is) f
• Ido: suno (io)
• Indonesian: Matahari (id), matahari (id)

  Sundanese: panonpoe

• Irish: Grian, An Ghrian
• Italian: sole (it) m
• Japanese: 太陽 (ja) (たいよう, taiyō)
• Kannada: ಸೂರ್ಯ (kn) (sūrya)
• Kapampangan: Aldo
• Kazakh: Күн (kk) (Kün)
• Khmer: ព្រះអាទិត្យ (km) (preah aatɨt)
• Komi-Zyrian: Шонді (Šondï)
• Korean: 해 (ko) (hae), 일 (ko) (il), 태양 (ko) (taeyang), (太陽 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: Күн (Kün)
• Lakota: apawi
• Lao: ຕາເວັນ (lo) (tā wen)
• Latvian: Saule

• Laz: მჟორა (mžora)
• Lezgi: Рагъ (Raġ)
• Lithuanian: saulė (lt) f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Sünn (nds) f

• Macedonian: Со́нце n (Sónce)
• Malay: Matahari (ms), matahari (ms)
• Maltese: Xemx m, xemx (mt) m
• Marathi: सूर्य m (sūrya)
• Mingrelian: ბჟა (bža)
• Mongolian: Нар (Nar)
• Navajo: jóhonaaʼéí
• Nepali: सूर्य (sūrya)
• Ngarrindjeri: Nungge
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sol m, f, Solen m, f (definite)

  Nynorsk: Sola

• Ojibwe: giizis
• Old English: Sunne
• Old Occitan: sol, solelh m
• Ossetian: Хур (Xur)
• Pashto: لمر‎ (ps) m (lmër), نور‎ (ps) m (nwër), نمر‎ (ps) m (Nmër)
• Persian: خورشید‎ (fa) (xoršid)
• Polish: słońce (pl) n
• Portuguese: sol (pt) m
• Purepecha: jurhiata, jurhíata
• Romanian: soare (ro) m
• Russian: Со́лнце (ru) n (Sólnce) (л is silent)
• Sanskrit: रवि (sa) (ravi), सूर्य (sa) (sūrya), दिनकर (sa) (dinakara)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сунце n

  Roman: Sunce (sh) n

• Sichuan Yi: ꉘꁮ (hxo bbu)
• Sinhalese: හිරු (hiru), ඉර (si) (ira)
• Slovak: Slnko n
• Slovene: sonce (sl) n, Sonce (sl) n
• Southern Altai: Кӱн (Kün)
• Spanish: sol (es) m, Sol (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒌓 (ud)
• Svan: მიჟ (miž)
• Swahili: Jua
• Swedish: solen (sv) c
• Tagalog: Araw, Adlaw
• Tajik: Офтоб (tg) (Oftob), Хуршед (Xuršed), офтоб (tg) (oftob)
• Tamil: ஞாயிறு (ta) (ñāyiṟu)
• Tatar: Кояш (tt) (Qoyaş), кояш (tt) (qoyaş)
• Telugu: సూర్యుడు (te) (sūryuḍu)
• Thai: ดวงอาทิตย์ (th) (duuang-aa-tít)
• Tibetan: ཉི་མ (nyi ma)
• Turkish: Güneş (tr)
• Turkmen: Güneş, Gün
• Tzotzil: kʼakʼal
• Ukrainian: Со́нце (uk) n (Sónce)
• Urdu: سوریہ‎ m (sūrya), خورشید‎ m (xuršed), سورج‎ (ur) m (sūraj)
• Uyghur: قۇياش‎ (ug) (quyash), كۈن‎ (ug) (kün)
• Uzbek: Quyosh, Oftob
• Veps: Päiväine
• Vietnamese: Mặt Trời (vi), Thái Dương (vi) (太陽)
• Volapük: sol (vo)
• Welsh: Haul (cy)
• Yiddish: זון‎ f (zun), החמה‎ f (hakhome)
• Zhuang: da'ngoenz, gyangngoenz, gyangjngoenz, havaenz

91st sura of the Qur'an

• Arabic: سورة الشمس‎

newspaper

• Arabic: ذَا صَن‎ f (ḏā ṣan)
• Japanese: ザ・サン (za-San)

• Russian: Сан (ru) m, f (San)

Noun

Sun

1. Abbreviation of Sunday.

Translations

Sunday

• Catalan: dg. (ca)
• Danish: søn (da)
• Finnish: su (fi)
• French: dim. (fr) m

• German: So. (de), Son., Sonnt.
• Japanese: 日 (ja) (nichi), 日曜 (ja) (nichiyō)
• Korean: 일 (ko) (il)
• Scottish Gaelic: Did

Anagrams

• 'uns, NUS, UNS, USN, uns

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Proper noun

Sun

1. A male given name
2. A female given name