pon

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pon"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Pohnpeian, from Pohnpeian Pohnpei.

Symbol

pon

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pohnpeian.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pohnpeian terms

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑn/, /pɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Japanese 碰 (pon).

Noun

pon (plural pons)

1. (Japanese mahjong) A call for forming a set of three identical tiles using a discarded tile.

   Synonym: pung

Usage notes

Among English-speaking players of the Japanese variant of mahjong, pon is more commonly used than the Cantonese-derived term pung. Unlike the common English usage of pung, pon is not typically used to refer to a set of three identical tiles, which is usually called a triplet instead.

Coordinate terms

• chii
• kan

Translations

mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 碰 (pung³)

  Mandarin: 碰 (zh) (pèng)

• Japanese: ポン (ja) (pon), 碰 (ja) (pon)
• Korean: 펑 (peong)

Etymology 2

Preposition

pon

1. Alternative spelling of 'pon.

Etymology 3

Verb

pon (third-person singular simple present pons, present participle ponning, simple past and past participle ponned)

1. (Singlish) Clipping of ponteng

Anagrams

• NOP, NPO, Nop, ONP, OPN, nop

Agarabi

Noun

pon

1. pig

   Pon a-ruah yeih-pah.

   Place where they killed the pig.

References

• Richard Loving. Grammatical studies in three languages of Papua New Guinea (1974).

Ainu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pon/

Adjective

pon (Kana spelling ポン)

1. small, little, few, young

   pon cikuni

   small tree

   a=oskoni katu pon ruwe ne.

   There was little (fish) available.

   pon hekaci

   young boy

Verb

pon (Kana spelling ポン)

1. to be small, to be little, to be few, to be young

   kewe pon kusu oka.

   Body is very small.

Antonyms

• poro

Derived terms

• ponno (“few”)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔn]

Verb

pon

1. inflection of pondre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Cimbrian

Noun

pon m

1. A clearing; an area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Dutch

Etymology

Clipping of japon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

Noun

pon m (plural ponnen, diminutive ponnetje n)

1. nightgown, nightdress

Synonyms

• nachtpon, nachtjapon

Galician

Alternative forms

poi, põe (eastern)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔŋ/ [ˈpɔŋ]
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ
• Hyphenation: pon

Verb

pon

1. inflection of poñer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of pór:
   1. third-person singular/plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

See also

• poñen

References

• “pór”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French pont (“bridge”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃/

Noun

pon

1. bridge

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch pond, from Middle Dutch pont, pond, from Old Dutch punt, from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), borrowed from Latin pondō.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔn/ [ˈpon]
• Rhymes: -ɔn
• Syllabification: pon
• Homophones: Pon, PON

Noun

pon

1. (now uncommon or rare) metric pound (500 grams)

Further reading

• “pon”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English upon. Compare Belizean Creole pahn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɒn/
• Hyphenation: pon

Preposition

pon

1. on

   Weh yuh deh pon?

   What are you on?

Usage notes

• Jamaican Creole uses pon only for on as a preposition, so it does not use pon for on as an adjective, adverb, verb or noun.

Japanese

Romanization

pon

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぽん
2. Rōmaji transcription of ポン

Lower Sorbian

Adverb

pon

1. superseded spelling of pón

Malay

Etymology 1

Adverb

pon

1. (colloquial) alternative spelling of pun

Etymology 2

Apocopic form of ponteng (“to skip school”).

Verb

pon

1. (colloquial) alternative form of ponteng

Middle English

Noun

pon

1. alternative form of pown (“pawn”)

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpon/ [ˈpõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: pon

Verb

pon

1. second-person singular imperative of poner

Further reading

• “pon”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

Volapük

Etymology

From French pont.

Noun

pon (genitive pona, plural pons)

1. bridge

Declension

Declension of pon

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pon	pons
Genitive	pona	ponas
Dative	pone	pones
Accusative	poni	ponis
Predicative1	ponu	ponus
Vocative	o pon	o pons

1. Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Zou

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pon˧/

Noun

pon

1. alternative form of puon

References

• Chungkham Yashawanta Singh; Lukram Himmat (2013), A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 47