bun

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

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

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 *bungu (“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.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

Buns (sense 1.1)
A hamburger in a bun (sense 1.2)
Buns (sense 1.3)
A bun (sense 1.4)

bun (plural buns)

  1. Senses referring to baked goods.
    2. A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.
    4. A bread roll that is served with a savoury filling such as a hamburger or hot dog.
    6. (Northern England, especially Northumbria) Any bread roll.
    8. (Northern England, Ireland) A cupcake.
  2. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
    Synonyms: hair bun, French roll
    Hyponym: messy bun
    • 2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:
      The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
  3. (British, slang) A drunken spree.
  4. (Internet slang) A newbie.
  5. (Canada, US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A buttock.
  6. (slang) The vagina.
    • 1996, Richard Sandomir, Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless‎[1], page 5:
      How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?
    • 2015, Rachelle Ayala, Whole Latte Love‎[2], page 169:
      Wait. I can touch your boobs, stick my wiener in your bun, but I can't kiss you?
    • 2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13
      I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.
Synonyms[edit]
Derived terms[edit]

(hairstyle): bun drop, Princess Leia bun, man-bun

other "bun" meanings
Translations[edit]
newbie — see newbie

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (transitive) To form (the hair) into a bun.
    • 2014, A. A. Garrison, The Long Short Story: Novellas, page 39:
      Bunning her hair, she left her childhood bedroom for the hall.

Further reading[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Probably from Scots bun (“tail of a rabbit or hare”), which is probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”).[1]

Noun[edit]

bun (plural buns) (dialect, archaic)

  1. A rabbit.
  2. A squirrel.
  3. The scut or tail of a hare.
  4. A dry stalk.

Etymology 3[edit]

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (Caribbean, MLE and MTE, slang) To smoke cannabis.
  2. (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang) To shoot.
  3. (MLE, slang) To forget.
    • 2004, MC Forcer, guest on Lethal Bizzle, "Pow!"
      Don't care about your crew, bun them any day
    • 2011, Jme, Mike Lowery:
      Some man acting dumb, think's he's a gun-man, wanna bring me drama. How you gonna bun me?
    • 2017, “Fire in the Booth”, performed by Taze, reused in ”Usual Suspects”:
      Look, come round, come round gunning, I still look try to bun him
      Don't chat on the net ’bout bunnin, oh my God why the fuck you runnin?
    • 2018, “Slatt Season”, in Sorry For The Get Off‎[3], performed by Drego & Beno, track 15:
      The K in the back, the glock in the front
      It’s one in the head, you know how we bun

Noun[edit]

bun (plural buns)

  1. (Caribbean and MLE, slang) marijuana cigarette, joint
    • 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:
      Man say that they spray the fire
      I fuck that shit, I drop the bun

Etymology 4[edit]

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (fèn, “fen”). Doublet of fen.

Alternative forms[edit]

Noun[edit]

bun (plural buns or bun)

  1. A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Eric Partridge (1966), Origins: A short etymological dictionary of modern English. New York: Greenwich House, →ISBN, p. 64.

Anagrams[edit]

Afar[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic بُنّ (bunn).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /ˈbun/, [ˈbʊn]
  • Hyphenation: bun

Noun[edit]

bún m (plural buunitté f)

  1. (Northern Afar) coffee

Declension[edit]

Declension of bún
absolutive bún
predicative búunu
subjective bún
genitive buntí
Postpositioned forms
l-case búunul
k-case búunuk
t-case búunut
h-case búunuh

References[edit]

  • E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bun”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

bun m (plural bune, definite buni, definite plural bunet)

  1. hut (of mountain shepherds), chalet, fenced area (for cattle)
    Synonyms: kasolle, kolibe

Declension[edit]

Declension of bun
indefinite definite
singular plural singular plural
nominative bun bune buni bunet
accusative bunin
dative buni buneve bunit bunevet
ablative bunesh

Related terms[edit]

Aromanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bonus. Compare Daco-Romanian bun.

Adjective[edit]

bun m (feminine bunã, plural bunj, feminine plural buni or bune)

  1. good

Derived terms[edit]

Related terms[edit]

Chibcha[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bun

  1. bread, bun

References[edit]

  • Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Dalmatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bonus.

Adjective[edit]

bun m (feminine buna)

  1. good

Girirra[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Arabic بُنّ (bunn).

Noun[edit]

bun

  1. coffee

Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”),[1] from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bun m (genitive singular buin, nominative plural bunanna)

  1. base, bottom
  2. stump
  3. lower end
  4. basic provision
  5. settled spell (of weather)
  6. source

Declension[edit]

Declension of bun

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

Synonyms[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
  2. ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 85
  3. ^ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58
  4. ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, page 78

Further reading[edit]

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bun

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶん

Ligurian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bonus.

Adjective[edit]

bun

  1. good

Megleno-Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin bonus. Compare Aromanian bun, Romanian bun.

Adjective[edit]

bun

  1. good

Antonyms[edit]

See also[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bun

  1. Alternative form of boun

Old French[edit]

Adjective[edit]

bun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bune)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of bon

Declension[edit]

Declension of bun
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject buns bune bun
Oblique bun bune bun
Plural Subject bun bunes bun
Oblique buns bunes bun

Old Irish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

bun m (genitive bona, nominative plural bonai)

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

Inflection[edit]

Masculine u-stem
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative bun bunL bonaeH
Vocative bun bunL bonu
Accusative bunN bunL bonu
Genitive bonoH, bonaH bonoL, bonaL bonaeN
Dative bunL bonaib bonaib
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants[edit]

  • Irish: bun
  • Manx: bun
  • Scottish Gaelic: bun

Mutation[edit]

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[edit]

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71

Further reading[edit]

Romanian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”). Doublet of bon, bonă, and bonus.

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. good
    Antonym: rău
    E un om bun, crede-mă. ― He is a good man, trust me.
    Sunt bun la fotbal. ― I am good at football.
Declension[edit]
Declension of bun
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite bun bună buni bune
definite bunul buna bunii bunele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite bun bune buni bune
definite bunului bunei bunilor bunelor
Derived terms[edit]
Related terms[edit]

Noun[edit]

bun n (plural bunuri)

  1. good, asset, possession
Declension[edit]
Declension of bun
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) bun bunul (niște) bunuri bunurile
genitive/dative (unui) bun bunului (unor) bunuri bunurilor
vocative bunule bunurilor

Etymology 2[edit]

Either from the above word or from a Vulgar Latin *avunus, ultimately from the same Proto-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[edit]

bun m (plural buni, feminine equivalent bună)

  1. (uncommon) grandfather
    Synonym: bunic
Declension[edit]
Declension of bun
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) bun bunul (niște) buni bunii
genitive/dative (unui) bun bunului (unor) buni bunilor
vocative bunule bunilor
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
  1. ^ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary

Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

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

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

Derived terms[edit]

Mutation[edit]

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

References[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[4], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Somali[edit]

Noun[edit]

bun ?

  1. coffee

Sranan Tongo[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Portuguese bom.

Adjective[edit]

bun

  1. good

Adverb[edit]

bun

  1. very, rather

Sumerian[edit]

Romanization[edit]

bun

  1. Romanization of 𒇌 (bun)

Tok Pisin[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From English bone.

Noun[edit]

bun

  1. (anatomy) bone
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:
      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.
      →New International Version translation

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Ottoman Turkish بوك (buñ), Proto-Turkic *buŋ. Cognate with Kazakh мұң (mūñ).

Noun[edit]

bun

  1. distress

Derived terms[edit]

Yoruba[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

bùn

  1. (transitive) to dash, to donate, to give away
    ó bùn mi ní owó ― He gave me money
  2. (transitive) to gift, bless, or endow someone
  3. (intransitive) to be gifted, endowed, or blessed with something

Usage notes[edit]

  • Sense 1 is a verbal element that subcategorizes an NP-object (receiver) + ní + NP phrase
  • bun before a direct object

Derived terms[edit]

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