sunna

See also: Sunna, sunnà, and Sunná

English

Noun

sunna (countable and uncountable, plural sunnas)

1. Alternative form of sunnah.

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• sunnu, sònnò, ŝchunna, ŝchunnà

Etymology

From Middle High German sunne, from Old High German sunna, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (“sun”).

Noun

sunna f

1. (Formazza) sun, the Sun

References

• 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

Czech

Alternative forms

• suna

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsuna]

Noun

sunna f

1. sunnah

Declension

Declension of sunna (hard feminine reducible)

	singular	plural
nominative	sunna	sunny
genitive	sunny	sunn
dative	sunně	sunnám
accusative	sunnu	sunny
vocative	sunno	sunny
locative	sunně	sunnách
instrumental	sunnou	sunnami

Related terms

• sunnita
• sunnitský

Further reading

• “sunna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “sunna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

Hausa

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sún.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sɪ́n.nàː]

Noun

sunnā̀ f (plural sunnōnī, possessed form sunnàr̃)

1. (Islam) sunnah

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sún.nàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sɪ́n.nàː]

Verb

sunnā̀ (grade 1)

1. (with an indirect object) To give something secretly to someone.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sunna, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen- < *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

Germanic cognates: Faroese sunna, English sun, West Frisian sinne, Low German Sünn, Zunne, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō).

Indo-European cognates: Sanskrit स्वर् (svar), Greek ἥλιος (ílios), Latin sol, Old Church Slavonic слъньце (slŭnĭce), Russian солнце (solnce), Latvian saũle, Welsh haul.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏnːa

Noun

sunna f (genitive singular sunnu, nominative plural sunnur)

1. (poetic) sun

   Synonyms: sól, (poetic) röðull

Declension

Declension of sunna (feminine)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sunna	sunnan	sunnur	sunnurnar
accusative	sunnu	sunnuna	sunnur	sunnurnar
dative	sunnu	sunnunni	sunnum	sunnunum
genitive	sunnu	sunnunnar	sunna	sunnanna

Derived terms

• sunnudagur

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “habit, custom”).

Noun

sunna f

1. (Islam) sunnah

Middle English

Noun

sunna

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

Old Dutch

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (“sun”).

Noun

sunna f

1. sun

Inflection

Declension of sunna (feminine ō/ōn-stem noun)

case	singular	plural
nominative	sunna	sunna, sunnon
accusative	sunna, sunnon	sunna, sunnon
genitive	sunnon	sunnono
dative	sunnon	sunnon

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: sonne f or m
  • Dutch: zon, zonne (obsolete), zun (dialectal)
    • Afrikaans: son
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: sono
    • Jersey Dutch: zon
    • Negerhollands: son, zon
    • → Sranan Tongo: son (see there for further descendants)
  • Limburgish: zón
  • West Flemish: zunne
  • Zealandic: zunne

Further reading

• “sunna”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Etymology 2

Unclear.

Noun

sunna ?

1. Son (a village in modern North Brabant, the Netherlands)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• van Berkel, Gerard; Samplonius, Kees (2018), “Son”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎^[1] (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnō. Masculine form of sunne.

Noun

sunna m

1. sun

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	sunna	sunnan
accusative	sunnan	sunnan
genitive	sunnan	sunnena
dative	sunnan	sunnum

Descendants

• Middle English: sonne, sunne, sone, son, sune, sun, sunna, sunnæ, synne, soen, zunne (Southwest Midland), zonne (Kent)
  • English: sun
  • Scots: sun
  • Yola: zin

References

• Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “sunna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (“sun”).

Noun

sunna f

1. sun

Declension

Declension of sunna (feminine n-stem)

case	singular	plural
nominative	sunna	sunnūn
accusative	sunnūn	sunnūn
genitive	sunnūn	sunnōno
dative	sunnūn	sunnōm, sunnōn

Descendants

• Middle High German: sunne f or m
  • Alemannic German: Sunnä

    Italian Walser: sunna, sunnu, sònnò, ŝchunna, ŝchunnà

  • Bavarian: Son

    Cimbrian: sunn, sonde, zunna

    Mòcheno: sunn

    Udinese: suna, sune, sunne

    Viennese: Sun

  • Central Franconian: Sonn, Sunn (rarer variant)
    • Hunsrik: Sunn, Sonn
    • Luxembourgish: Sonn
  • German: Sonne
  • Rhine Franconian:

    Palatine German: Sunn

    Pennsylvania German: Sunn

  • Vilamovian: zunn, zun
  • Yiddish: זון (zun)

References

• Wright, Joseph (1906), An Old High German Primer‎^[2], second edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō.

Noun

sunna f

1. an excuse
2. justification
3. law

References

• Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch‎^[3] (in German), 6th edition
• Grimm, Jacob, Teutonic Mythology, vol 1, 1882.

Old Irish

Adverb

sunna

1. alternative form of sund

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ (“sun”).

Compare Norn sjiner, Shetlandic Scots sjiner (literally “shiner”).

Noun

sunna f (genitive sunnu)

1. (poetic, heiti) sun

   Synonym: sól

2. (Old East Norse) based on descendants: (Runic alphabet) name of the rune ᛋ (s)

   Synonym: sól

Declension

Declension of sunna (weak ōn-stem)

feminine	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	sunna	sunnan	sunnur	sunnurnar
accusative	sunnu	sunnuna	sunnur	sunnurnar
dative	sunnu	sunnunni	sunnum	sunnunum
genitive	sunnu	sunnunnar	sunnna	sunnnanna

Synonyms

• See Thesaurus:non:sól

Derived terms

• setr sunnu (“the seat of the sun; heaven”)
• sunnudagr (“Sunday”)

Descendants

• Faroese: sunna
• Icelandic: sunna
• Old Swedish: ᛋᚢᚿ (Sun), sun, *sunna, *sonna
  • Swedish: sunna, sunn, sun, sönna, sönn, sön (archaic/dialectal; mainly in compounds)
  • ⇒ Swedish: (dialectal) agsönnes (“counterclockwise; back to front”, literally “ag(ainst)-sun”)
  • ⇒ Swedish: (dialectal) ansönes (“towards the sun”, literally “on-sun”), annsönsj, annsjöns

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (“sun”).

Noun

sunna f

1. sun

Declension

sunna (feminine n-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	sunna	sunnun, sunnan, sunnon
accusative	sunnun, sunnan, sunnon	sunnun, sunnan, sunnon
genitive	sunnun, sunnan, sunnon	sunnono
dative	sunnun, sunnan, sunnon	sunnun, sunnan, sunnon
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: sunne f or m, sonne
  • Low German: Sünne, Sonne
    • Dutch Low Saxon: zunne
    • German Low German: Sünn, Sünne, Sonn, Sonne
  • Plautdietsch: Sonn

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French sunna.

Noun

sunna f (uncountable)

1. sunnah

Declension

singular only	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	sunna	sunnaua
genitive-dative	—	-i
vocative	—

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• suna, sunnah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna). Compare Javanese ꦱꦸꦤꦃ (sunah). Doublet of sunat (“circumcision”).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈsuna/ [ˈsuː.n̪ɐ]
• Rhymes: -una
• Syllabification: su‧nna

Noun

sunna (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜈ) (Islam)

1. sunnah

Further reading

• “sunna”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018