bun

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

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bʌn/
  • Audio (AU):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌn

Etymology 1

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.

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.
    Synonym: French roll
  3. (Ireland) A cupcake.
  4. (slang, British) A drunken spree.
  5. (Internet, slang) A newbie.
  6. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A buttock.
  7. (informal) vagina
Synonyms
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bun (plural buns)

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

Etymology 3

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

Verb

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  1. (Caribbean and MLE, slang) To smoke cannabis.
  2. (MLE, African-American Vernacular, 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?
    • 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[1], 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

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

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

Alternative forms

Noun

bun (plural buns or bun)

  1. (Korean units of measure) A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

References

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

Anagrams

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)

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin bonus. Compare Daco-Romanian bun.

Adjective

bun m (feminine bunã)

  1. good

Derived terms

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”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

Pronunciation

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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

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

Derived terms

  • ar bun (“going on; settled, established”)
  • bun na cluaise (“earlobe”)
  • bun- (“basic, fundamental, primary, ultimate, original, base, elementary; sub-; key”)
  • bunaigh (“found, establish; settle”)
  • bunaonad (“base unit”)
  • bunú (“foundation; establishment”)
  • bunús (“origin; basis”)
  • de bhun tola (“willingly; deliberately”)
  • de bhun (“on foot of, in pursuance of”)
  • faoi bhun (“beneath”)
  • i mbun (“attending to, engaged in, abiding by”)

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.

Further reading

  • de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bun”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
  • “bun”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2024

References

Japanese

Romanization

bun

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶん

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bun

  1. good

Old French

Adjective

bun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bune)

  1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of bon

Declension

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

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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

Mutation

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

References

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

Further reading

Romanian

Pronunciation

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

  1. good
    E un om bun, crede-mă. ― He is a good man, trust me.
    Sunt bun la fotbal. ― I am good at football.
    Antonym: rău
Declension
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 bunelor bunilor
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

bun m (plural buni, feminine equivalent bună)

  1. (uncommon) grandfather
    Synonym: bunic
Derived terms
References
  1. ^ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

Mutation

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

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “bun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[2], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Somali

Noun

bun ?

  1. coffee

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese bom.

Adjective

bun

  1. good

Adverb

bun

  1. very, rather

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English bone.

Noun

bun

  1. (anatomy) bone

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Zou

Noun

bun

  1. skin

References

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