sunburn

English

Etymology

From Middle English *sunne burnen, *sonne brennen, *sunne brennen (suggested by derivatives sonne brennynge, sunne brennynge (“sunburn”, literally “sun-burning”) and sunne brente (“sunburnt”), equivalent to sun +‎ burn. Compare West Frisian sinnebrân (“sunburn”), Dutch zonnebrand (“sunburn”), German Sonnenbrand (“sunburn”), Swedish solbränna (“sunburn”), Icelandic sólbruni (“sunburn”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnbɝn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsʌnbɜːn/

Noun

sunburn (countable and uncountable, plural sunburns)

1. A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.

Related terms

• sunburnt
• windburn

Translations

burn

• Arabic: سَفْعَة اَلشَّمْس‎ f (safʿat aš-šams)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 曬傷 (zh), 晒伤 (zh) (shàishāng), 曬熟, 晒熟 (shàishóu)

• Czech: spálení n
• Finnish: auringonpolttama
• French: coup de soleil (fr) m, actinite (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Sonnenbrand (de) m
• Ido: sunbrulo
• Irish: dó gréine m, griandó m
• Japanese: 日焼け (ja) (ひやけ, hiyake)
• Khmer: សុរិយរោគ (so’re’ya’ rook), រោលថ្ងៃ (rool tŋay)
• Korean: 햇볕에 탐 (haetbyeote tam)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can

• Macedonian: изгоре́ница f (izgorénica)
• Maori: tīkākā
• Norman: coup d'solé m (Jersey), êcaudeuse f (Jersey)
• Polish: oparzenie słoneczne n
• Portuguese: queimadura solar f, escaldão m
• Russian: со́лнечный ожо́г m (sólnečnyj ožóg)
• Scottish Gaelic: losgadh na grèine m
• Slovak: spálenie
• Spanish: quemadura solar f, quemadura de piel f, quemadura (es) f
• Tagalog: katim, paso ng araw
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Tibetan: ཉི་སྲེག (nyi sreg)
• Turkish: güneş yanığı (tr)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

sunburn (third-person singular simple present sunburns, present participle sunburning, simple past and past participle sunburned)

1. (intransitive) To receive a sunburn.
2. (transitive) To burn or discolour by the sun; to tan.
   • Dryden

     Sunburnt and swarthy though she be.

Translations

to receive a sunburn

• Czech: spálit se (cs) pf
• Finnish: polttaa itsensä auringossa
• French: attraper un coup de soleil
• German: Sonnenbrand bekommen
• Ido: sunbrular
• Japanese: 日に焼ける (ひにやける, hi-ni yakeru)

• Kazakh: күю (küyw)
• Macedonian: изгорува (izgoruva)
• Portuguese: apanhar um escaldão
• Russian: обгоре́ть на со́лнце pf (obgorétʹ na sólnce), получи́ть со́лнечный ожо́г pf (polučítʹ sólnečnyj ožóg)
• Slovak: spáliť sa
• Spanish: quemarse la piel
• Turkish: yanmak (tr)

Anagrams

• unburns