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Translingual
[edit]Symbol
[edit]sun
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- enPR: sŭn, IPA(key): /sʌn/
- (Local Dublin) IPA(key): /sʊn/
Audio (UK): (file) Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ʌn
- Homophone: son
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen-, oblique of Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”). See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit स्वर् (svar), Avestan 𐬓𐬇𐬧𐬔 (xᵛə̄ṇg)). Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.
Alternative forms
[edit]- (proper noun, star which Earth revolves around): Sun (capitalized)
- sonne, sunne (obsolete spelling)
- ☉ (alchemy)
Proper noun
[edit]the sun
- The star that Earth revolves around, and from which it receives light and heat.
- 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 233:
- "I suppose I may have leave to do that!" Yes, she could do that, he said, but there was no road to that place; it lay east of the sun and west of the moon, and she could never find her way there.
- 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
- 'Twas early June, the new grass was flourishing everywheres, the posies in the yard—peonies and such—in full bloom, the sun was shining, and the water of the bay was blue, with light green streaks where the shoal showed.
Translations
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun (countable and uncountable, plural suns)
- (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
- 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Haestrom Codex entry:
- Because Haestrom's sun has overwhelmed the planet's protective magnetosphere, humans foolhardy enough to venture into geth-controlled Haestrom must exercise extreme caution. Minutes of radiation exposure will overload shields and hours of exposure will kill.
- The light and heat which are received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
- c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:
- Lambs that did frisk in the sun.
- 1835, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], “The Knight of Provençe, and His Proposal”, in Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes. […], volume I, London: Saunders and Otley, […], →OCLC, book II (The Revolution), page 184:
- His fair hair waved long and freely over a white and unwrinkled forehead: the life of a camp and the suns of Italy had but little embrowned his clear and healthful complexion, which retained much of the bloom of youth.
- (figurative) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.
- 1560, [William Whittingham et al., transl.], The Bible and Holy Scriptures Conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. […] (the Geneva Bible), Geneva: […] Rouland Hall, →OCLC, Psalmes 84:11, folio 253, recto, column 2:
- For the Lord God is the ſunne & ſhield vnto vs: […]
- 1649 February 19 (Gregorian calendar), attributed to Charles I of England, “Upon their seizing the Kings Magazines, Forts, Navy, and Militia”, in Έἰκὼν Βασιλική [Éikṑn Basilikḗ]. The Pourtraicture of His Sacred Maiestie in His Solitudes and Sufferings: […], [London: […] Roger Daniel for John Williams], →OCLC, page 65:
- […] I will never conſent to put out the Sun of Sovereigntie to all Poſterity, […]
- (uncountable, chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 381, columns 1–2:
- Imo[gen]. […] Prythee ſpeake, / How many ſtore of Miles may we well rid / Twixt houre, and houre? / Piſ[anio]. One ſcore 'twixt Sun, and Sun, / Madam's enough for you: and too much too. / Imo[gen]. Why, one that rode to's Excution Man, / Could neuer go ſo ſlow: […]
- 1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Discontents, Cares, Miseries, &c. causes”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 1, section 2, member 3, subsection 10, page 110:
- [W]hileſt many an hunger-ſtarved poore creature pines in the ſtreet, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from Sun to Sun, ſick and ill, weary, full of paine and griefe, is in great diſtreſſe and ſorrow of heart.
- 1849, Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, published 1873, page 357:
- I love these sons of earth every mother's son of them, with their great hearty hearts rushing tumultuously in herds from spectacle to spectacle, as if fearful lest there should not be time between sun and sun to see them all, and the sun does not wait more than in haying-time.
- 1962, Harry S. Truman, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, page 651:
- You see, the President has five jobs, any one of which would be more than a full-time job for one man; but I have to do all five of them between sun and sun.
- 1997, Alan Dean Foster, Howling Stones, page 149:
- “Tomorrow at first sun.” Not being much of a morning person, she winced internally. “First sun?” “It is the proper time, when the flowers of the pohoroh first open to the light.”
- A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
- A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
- 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
- Four suns since was the word brought to me from ‘She-who-must-be-obeyed,’ ‘White men come; if white men come, slay them not.’ Let them be brought to the house of ‘She-who-must-be-obeyed.’
- The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the tarot.
- (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.
Derived terms
[edit]- aftersun
- antisun
- catch the sun
- countersun
- day in the sun
- everything under the sun
- fix the roof while the sun is shining
- fly too close to the sun
- follow the sun
- glory-of-the-sun
- go to bed with the sun
- have had one's day under the sun
- have the sun in one's eyes
- low-sun
- make hay while the sun shines
- mean sun
- midnight sun
- mock sun
- moment in the sun
- nothing new under the sun
- place in the sun
- protosun
- rise with the sun
- sun and planet gear
- sun anemone shrimp
- sun-angel
- sunangel
- sunback
- sunbake
- sun-bath
- sunbath
- sun bath
- sunbathe
- sunbeam
- sun bear
- sunbeaten
- sunbed
- sun beetle
- sunbelt
- sunberry
- sunbird
- sunbittern
- sun-bittern
- sun bittern
- sunbleached
- sunbleak
- sun-blind
- sunblind
- sun blind
- sun block
- sunblock
- sunblocking
- sunbloom
- sunblotch
- sunblush
- sunbonneted, sun-bonneted
- sunbonnet, sun bonnet
- sunbow
- sunbreak
- sunbrella
- sunbright
- sunbrowned
- sun-bunny
- sun bunny
- sunburn
- sun-burner
- sunburnt
- sunburst
- suncap
- suncapped
- suncare
- suncatcher
- sunchair
- sun-chaser
- sunchoke
- Sun City
- Suncoast
- suncolored
- suncrack
- suncream
- sun cream
- sun cross
- suncup
- sun cure
- sundae
- sundance
- Sundance
- sun dance
- sun-darts
- sundawn
- Sunday
- Sundayfied
- sun deck
- sundeck
- sundew
- sundial
- sun disc
- sundisk
- sundog
- sun dog
- sundown
- sun-drenched
- sundress
- sun-dried
- sundrops
- sun-dry
- sunfall
- sunfast
- sun fever
- sun-fever
- sunfilled
- sun filter
- sunfish
- sunfleck
- sunflower
- sunfringed
- sunfrock
- sunfruit
- sungazer
- sungazing
- sun gear
- sunglade
- sunglass
- sun-glassed
- sun glasses
- sunglasses
- sunglint
- sunglow
- sungod
- sun granny
- sungrazer
- sungrazing
- sungrebe
- sungrebe
- sunhat
- sun hat
- sunhood
- sun kicks
- sun kink
- sunkissed
- sun-kissed
- sunlamp
- sun lamp
- sunland
- sunless
- sun letter
- sunlight
- sunlighting
- Sun-like
- sun-like
- sunlike
- sun line
- sunlit
- sun lounge
- sunlounger
- sunly
- sunnish
- sunny
- sun oneself
- sun outage
- sun parlor
- sun-parlor
- sun parlour
- sunperch
- sunphotometer
- sunphotometric
- sunphotometry
- sun picture
- sun pillar
- sun poisoning
- sunporch
- sunproof
- sun protection factor
- sunquake
- sunquat
- sunray
- sunrise
- sunrising
- sunrist
- sunroof
- sun room
- sunroom
- sunroot
- sunrose
- sunscald
- sunscreen
- sunscreening
- sunseed
- sunseeker
- sunset
- sunshade
- sunshaft
- sunshield
- sun-shine
- Sunshine
- sunshine
- sunshot
- sun shot
- sun-shot
- sunshower
- sun shower
- sunskirter
- sun sneezing
- sunspace
- sun spider
- sun-splashed
- sunspot
- sun spot
- sun spurge
- sun star
- sunstar
- sunstead
- sun-stead
- sunstone
- sunstricken
- sunstrike
- sunstroke
- sunstruck
- sunsuit
- sunswept
- sun-synchronous orbit
- suntan
- sun tea
- suntiger
- sun-tight
- sun trap
- suntrap
- sun umbrella
- sun-up
- sunup
- sunview
- sun visor
- sun visor
- sunward
- sunwards
- sunwarmed
- sunwashed
- sunwatcher
- sunways
- sunwear
- sunwing
- sunwise
- sun-wizened
- sun-worshiper
- sun worshiper
- sun worshipper
- sun-worshipper
- supersun
- sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow
- sure as the sun is going to come up tomorrow morning
- sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow
- sure as the sun is going to rise tomorrow morning
- take the sun
- there is nothing new under the sun
- the sun sets on something
- think the sun shines out of someone's arse
- think the sun shines out of someone's ass
- think the sun shines out of someone's backside
- think the sun shines out of someone's butt
- too close to the sun
- Tuscan sun
- under the sun
- upsun
- Venezuelan suntiger
- Vergina sun
- virgin of the sun
- what color is the sun in your world
- where the sun doesn't shine
- where the sun don't shine
- Whitsun, Whitsunday
- winter sun
Translations
[edit]Verb
[edit]sun (third-person singular simple present suns, present participle sunning, simple past and past participle sunned)
- (transitive) To expose to the heat and radiation of the sun.
- Synonym: apricate
- Beautiful bodies lying on the beach, sunning their bronzed limbs.
- 2000, William Laurance, Stinging Trees and Wait-a-Whiles: Confessions of a Rainforest Biologist:
- There were lots of zany antics and we tried not to stare too obviously at the beautiful women toplessly sunning themselves...
- 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines. A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.
- (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
- (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
- (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.
Hypernyms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Japanese 寸 (sun). Doublet of cun.
Noun
[edit]sun (plural suns or sun)
- A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).
Etymology 3
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun (uncountable)
- Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”)
Further reading
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Bambara
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun
- trunk (of tree)
Usage notes
[edit]Often used in a compound with the name of a tree to indicate that kind of tree.
Etymology 2
[edit]From Arabic صَوْم (ṣawm, “fasting; abstaining from food, drink, and sex”), from Classical Syriac ܨܘܡܐ (ṣawmāʾ).
Noun
[edit]sun
Noun
[edit]sun
- to fast
Bavarian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”). Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.
Noun
[edit]sun
References
[edit]- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Cimbrian
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun m
References
[edit]- Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun m inan
Declension
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sun”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
- “sun”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “sun”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Finnish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Possibly from sun (etymology 2), originally as a replacement of mun, eroded variant of muin which was reinterpreted as the genitive singular of mä.
Conjunction
[edit]sun
- (coordinating) A coordinating conjunction expressing generality.
- En nyt jouda, kun tässä on sitä sun tätä tekemistä.
- I don't have time for that because I have this and that to do (miscellaneous stuff/things to do).
- Lautanen oli täynnä makaroonilaatikkoa, makkaraa, salaattia, perunamuussia sun muuta pöperöä.
- The plate was full of macaroni casserole, sausage, salad, mashed potatoes and other grub.
Further reading
[edit]- “sun”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][4] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01
Etymology 2
[edit]Compare standard sinun (“your, yours”) (genitive singular of sinä).
Pronoun
[edit]sun
- (colloquial) genitive of sä
Friulian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun m (plural suns)
Synonyms
[edit]- (music): musiche
Related terms
[edit]Hokkien
[edit]For pronunciation and definitions of sun – see 孫 (“grandchild; grandson; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 孫). |
Inari Sami
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Samic *sonë.
Pronunciation
[edit]Pronoun
[edit]sun (genitive suu)
See also
[edit]Inari Sami personal pronouns | |||
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singular | dual | plural | |
1st person | mun | muoi | mij |
2nd person | tun | tuoi | tij |
3rd person | sun | suoi | sij |
Further reading
[edit]- sun in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje[5], Tromsø: UiT
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[6], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Indonesian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch zoen (“kiss”), from Middle Dutch zoene, soen, soene, swoene (“reconciliation; atonement; kiss”), from Old Dutch *sōna, *swōna (“reconciliation; peace; agreement”), from Proto-Germanic *sōnō, *swōnō (“appeasement; reconciliation; atonement; sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *swā-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun (first-person possessive sunku, second-person possessive sunmu, third-person possessive sunnya)
- kiss, a touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.
- Synonym: ciuman
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “sun” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From su.
Pronunciation
[edit]Conjunction
[edit]sun
- (poetic, rare) Alternative form of su used before a vowel
- mid 13th century–1280s, Ricordano Malispini, “Come Catellino e sua gente sconfissano e amazorono Fiorino; e della venuta di Giulio Cesare con l’oste de’ romani [How Catiline and his people defeated and killed Fiorinus; and of the arrival of Julius Caesar with the Roman host]” (chapter 16), in Istoria antica[7]; republished as Istoria antica di Ricordano Malespini gentil'uomo fiorentino dall’edificazione di Fiorenza insino all'anno MCCLXXXI, con l'aggiunta di Giachetto suo nipote dal detto anno per insino al 1286, Florence: Stamperia Giunti, 1568, page 9:
- […] preſſo a monte Giulio Ceſare ſi puoſe la milizia di Magrino […] , & in ſun’unaltro monte preſſo a quello […]
- [ […] presso a Monte Giulio Cesare si puose la milizia di Magrino […] ; e in sun un altro monte, presso a quello […] ]
- […] Macrinus' force was stationed near Mount Julius Caesar […] ; and, on another mountain, near that one […]
Further reading
[edit]- sun in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Japanese
[edit]Romanization
[edit]sun
Javanese
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun
- a kiss
Kaingang
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sun
References
[edit]Kamkata-viri
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a descendant of Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvárṇa).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun (Kamviri, Western Kata-viri)[1]
References
[edit]Ladin
[edit]Preposition
[edit]sun
Verb
[edit]sun
- Alternative form of son
Manchu
[edit]Romanization
[edit]sun
- Romanization of ᠰᡠᠨ
Mandarin
[edit]Romanization
[edit]sun
- Nonstandard spelling of sūn.
- Nonstandard spelling of sǔn.
- Nonstandard spelling of sùn.
Usage notes
[edit]- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun
- Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun
- Alternative form of sone (“son”)
Mimi of Nachtigal
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Similar to (and likely a borrowing of, or possibly the lender of) the word used for water in the "third Mimi" language, Amdang sunu, which in turn is (per Starostin) "most likely cognate with" Fur suːn (“waterhole, well”).
Noun
[edit]sun
References
[edit]- George Starostin, On Mimi
North Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Frisian sand, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz. Cognates include West Frisian sân.
Noun
[edit]sun n
Noun
[edit]sun m (plural sunen)
- (Föhr-Amrum) sandbank, sandy area, sands
Derived terms
[edit]Old Danish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Norse sonr, sunr, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz.
Noun
[edit]sun m (nominative plural synær)
Descendants
[edit]- Danish: søn
Quiripi
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun
- (Unquachog) stone
References
[edit]- Thomas Jefferson (1791) A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians (in Quiripi)
Romanian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]sun
Etymology 2
[edit]Probably from Latin sonus, or from the verb suna.
Noun
[edit]sun n (plural sunuri)
Declension
[edit]References
[edit]- sun in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
Scots
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen- (“sun”), oblique stem *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun (plural suns)
Derived terms
[edit]Vietnamese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [sun˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [ʂun˧˧] ~ [sun˧˧]
- (Saigon) IPA(key): [ʂʊwŋ͡m˧˧] ~ [sʊwŋ͡m˧˧]
Verb
[edit]sun
- (intransitive) To shrink.
- (transitive) To pull together.
- sun vai
- to pull one’s shoulders together
- sun vai
References
[edit]- "sun" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)
Waigali
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from a descendant of Sanskrit सुवर्ण (suvárṇa).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]sun (Nisheigram)[1]
References
[edit]Yoruba
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sùn
Synonyms
[edit]Yoruba Varieties and Languages - sùn (“to sleep”) | ||||
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Language Family | Variety Group | Variety/Language | Location | Words |
Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ào | Ìdóàní | rhùn |
Eastern Àkókó | Àkùngbá Àkókó | sùn | ||
Ṣúpárè Àkókó | sùn | |||
Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú Òde | sù | ||
Ìkòròdú | sù | |||
Ṣágámù | sù | |||
Ẹ̀pẹ́ | sù | |||
Ìkálẹ̀ | Òkìtìpupa | hùn | ||
Ìlàjẹ | Mahin | hùn | ||
Oǹdó | Oǹdó | sùn | ||
Usẹn | Usẹn | hùn | ||
Ìtsẹkírì | Ìwẹrẹ | sùn | ||
Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Àdó Èkìtì | sùn |
Àkúrẹ́ | sùn | |||
Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì | sùn | |||
Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | sùn | |
Ẹ̀gbá | Abẹ́òkúta | sùn | ||
Èkó | Èkó | sùn | ||
Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | sùn | ||
Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | sùn | ||
Oǹkó | Ìtẹ̀síwájú LGA | sùn | ||
Ìwàjówà LGA | sùn | |||
Kájọlà LGA | sùn | |||
Ìsẹ́yìn LGA | sùn | |||
Ṣakí West LGA | sùn | |||
Atisbo LGA | sùn | |||
Ọlọ́runṣògo LGA | sùn | |||
Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | sùn | ||
Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | sùn | ||
Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | sùn | |||
Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Ìyàgbà | Yàgbà East LGA | hùn | |
Owé | Kabba | hùn | ||
Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Akpáré | sũ̀ | |
Atakpamé | sũ̀ | |||
Tchetti | sũ̀ |
Derived terms
[edit]- ibùsùn (“bed”)
- kòríkòsùn (“close friend”)
- másùnmáwo (“stress”)
- sísùn (“sleeping”)
- àsùngbádùn (“good night's sleep”)
- àsùnwọra (“deep sleep”)
- àìróorunsùn (“insomnia”)
Etymology 2
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sun
- to roast
- to burn; to set on fire
Synonyms
[edit]Yoruba Varieties and Languages - sun (“to roast, burn”) | ||||
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Language Family | Variety Group | Variety/Language | Location | Words |
Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú Òde | su |
Ìkòròdú | su | |||
Ṣágámù | su | |||
Ẹ̀pẹ́ | su | |||
Ìkálẹ̀ | Òkìtìpupa | họn | ||
Usẹn | Usẹn | họn | ||
Olùkùmi | Ugbódù | họ́n | ||
Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Àdó Èkìtì | sụn |
Àkúrẹ́ | sụn | |||
Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì | sụn | |||
Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | sun | |
Èkó | Èkó | sun | ||
Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | sun | ||
Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | sun | ||
Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | sun | ||
Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | sun | ||
Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | sun | |||
Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Owé | Kabba | hun |
Derived terms
[edit]- dáná sun
- sísun (“burning”)
- ìdánásungbó (“arson; slash and burn”)
- ìdánásunlé (“arson”)
Etymology 3
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sun
Derived terms
[edit]- orísun (“source”)
Etymology 4
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sun
- (with ẹkún (“tears”)) to cry
- Wọ́n ń sun ẹkún níbi ìsìnkú ― They're crying at the burial ground
- to chant
- Ọdẹ ni ó máa ń sun ìjálá, ìyàwó ni ó máa ń sun ẹkún-ìyàwó ― Hunters chant ìjálá, and brides chant the ẹkún-ìyàwó
Synonyms
[edit]Yoruba Varieties and Languages - sun (“to cry”) | ||||
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Language Family | Variety Group | Variety/Language | Location | Words |
Proto-Itsekiri-SEY | Southeast Yoruba | Ìjẹ̀bú | Ìjẹ̀bú Òde | sọ |
Ìkòròdú | sọ | |||
Ṣágámù | sọ | |||
Ẹ̀pẹ́ | sọ | |||
Ìkálẹ̀ | Òkìtìpupa | hun | ||
Ìlàjẹ | Mahin | hun | ||
Usẹn | Usẹn | họn | ||
Ìtsẹkírì | Ìwẹrẹ | sọ, sọn | ||
Olùkùmi | Ugbódù | họ́n | ||
Proto-Yoruba | Central Yoruba | Èkìtì | Àdó Èkìtì | sụn |
Àkúrẹ́ | sụn | |||
Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì | sụn | |||
Northwest Yoruba | Àwórì | Èbúté Mẹ́tà | sun | |
Èkó | Èkó | sun | ||
Ìbàdàn | Ìbàdàn | sun | ||
Ìlọrin | Ìlọrin | sun | ||
Ọ̀yọ́ | Ọ̀yọ́ | sun | ||
Standard Yorùbá | Nàìjíríà | sun | ||
Bɛ̀nɛ̀ | sun | |||
Northeast Yoruba/Okun | Ìyàgbà | Yàgbà East LGA | hu | |
Owé | Kabba | hun | ||
Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba | Ifɛ̀ | Akpáré | sɔ | |
Atakpamé | sɔ | |||
Tchetti | sɔ |
Derived terms
[edit]Etymology 5
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sùn
Derived terms
[edit]- àfojúsùn (“goal; target”)
Etymology 6
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sún
- to shift; to move
- Sún mọ́ mi. ― Move closer to me.
- Pẹ̀lúmi fẹ́ sún ìpàdé síwájú ― Pelumi wants to postpone the meeting
- to nudge; to motivate
- Ó sún mi láti wọ́de ― It motivated me to protest
- to prick
- Synonym: gún
- Ẹ̀gún sún mi lọ́wọ́ ― The thorn pricked me
Derived terms
[edit]- sún kì (“to contract; to shrink”)
Etymology 7
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]sùn
- to make a complaint
- A ti fẹjọ́ yín sùn wọ́n ― We have reported you to them
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