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bun

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sherbro.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sherbro terms

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /bʌn/
• (Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /bɐn/

  • Audio (Australian):

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• (Wales) IPA^(key): /bən/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /bʊn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

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 *bungu (“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.

• bunn (archaic)

bun (plural buns)

1. Senses referring to baked goods.
   2. A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.

      Coordinate term: cake

   4. A bread roll that is served with a savoury filling such as a hamburger or hot dog.
   6. (Northern England, especially Northumbria) Any bread roll.

      Coordinate term: cake

   8. (Northern England, Ireland) A cupcake.

      Coordinate term: cake

3. A roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

   Synonyms: hair bun, chignon

   Hyponyms: French roll; man-bun

   loose bun;   messy bun;   tight bun

   • 2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:

     The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.

5. (UK, slang) A drunken spree.
6. (Internet slang) A newbie.
7. (slang) A young girl or woman.
8. (Canada, US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A buttock.

   nice buns;   tight buns

9. (Can we verify⁽⁾ this sense?) (slang) The vagina.
   • 1996, Richard Sandomir, Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless‎^[1], page 5:

     How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?

   • 2015, Rachelle Ayala, Whole Latte Love‎^[2], page 169:

     Wait. I can touch your boobs, stick my wiener in your bun, but I can't kiss you?

   • 2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13

     I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.

(hairstyle): bun drop, Princess Leia bun, man-bun

• → Samoan: pani

bun (third-person singular simple present buns, present participle bunning, simple past and past participle bunned)

1. (transitive) To form (the hair) into a bun.
   • 2014, A. A. Garrison, The Long Short Story: Novellas, page 39:

     Bunning her hair, she left her childhood bedroom for the hall.

• Bun (bread roll) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Bun (hairstyle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

bun (plural buns)

1. (colloquial, childish) Clipping of bunny (“rabbit”).

   Synonym: bun-bun

   She brought home two new buns to join the menagerie!

2. (dialect, archaic, nonclipped) A bunny: a rabbit.
3. (dialect, archaic) A squirrel.
4. (dialect, archaic) The scut or tail of a hare.
5. (dialect, archaic) A dry stalk.

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

bun (third-person singular simple present buns, present participle bunning, simple past and past participle bunned)

1. (Caribbean, MLE and MTE, 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 any day

   • 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^[3], 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

3. (MLE, slang) To forget.

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

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

• p'un, pun

bun (plural buns or bun)

1. A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

• nub

• búun (Northern Afar)
• búna, buná (Southern Afar)

Borrowed from Arabic بُنّ (bunn).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbun/ [ˈbʊn]
• Hyphenation: bun

bún m (plural buunitté f)

1. (Northern Afar) coffee

Declension of bún
absolutive	bún
predicative	búunu
subjective	bún
genitive	buntí
Postpositioned forms l-case búunul k-case búunuk t-case búunut h-case búunuh

• Mario Capomazza (1907), “bunu”, in La lingua degli Afar: Vocabulario Italiano-Dankalo e Dankalo-Italiano [The language of the Afar: Italian-Dankal and Dankal-Italian dictionary], Macerata: Unione Tipografica, page 118
• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “bun”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *bhunā. Compare Illyrian *bounon. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be wake, keep watch”).

bun m (plural bune, definite buni, definite plural bunet)

1. hut (of mountain shepherds), chalet, fenced area (for cattle)

   Synonyms: kasolle, kolibe

• “bun”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[4], 1980

bun (plural bun dem, quantified bun)

1. burn

bun (past min bun, future go bun, completive dun bun, imperfective a bun)

1. burn

• bunu

From Latin bonus. Compare Daco-Romanian bun.

bun m (feminine bunã, plural bunj, feminine plural buni or bune)

1. good

• IPA^(key): /ɡun/

bun

1. bread, bun

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

From Latin bonus.

bun m (feminine buna)

1. good

Borrowed from Arabic بُنّ (bunn).

bun

1. coffee

From English burn.

• IPA^(key): /bʌːn/

bun

1. To burn

• De Nyew Testament‎^[5], Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc., 2025

From Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

• (Munster) IPA^(key): /bˠun̪ˠ/^[2]
• (Connacht) IPA^(key): /bˠunˠ/ ~ /bˠɞnˠ/^[3]
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /bˠɞnˠ/^[4]

bun m (genitive singular buin, nominative plural bunanna)

1. base, bottom
2. stump
3. lower end
4. basic provision
5. settled spell (of weather)
6. source

• stoc

• de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959), “bun”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
• “bun”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013–2026
• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “bun”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

bun

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぶん

From Latin bonus.

bun

1. good

From Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”),^[1] from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn, Irish bun, Scottish Gaelic bun.

bun ?

1. base, bottom, foundation
2. source
3. butt, end

• “bun” in Phil Kelly, Fockleyr Gaelg-Baarle, 1991; reproduced on Fockleyreen: Manx - English Dictionary, 2 December 2014, →OCLC.

From Latin bonus. Compare Aromanian bun, Romanian bun.

bun

1. good

• rǫu

• bini

bun

1. alternative form of boun

• IPA^(key): /buːn/

būn

1. past participle of būan

bun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bune)

1. (Anglo-Norman) alternative form of bon

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈbun/

bun m (genitive bona, nominative plural bonai)

1. base
2. bottom
3. butt
4. end

• bunad

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

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

• IPA^(key): /bun/

• Audio:

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Inherited from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Doublet of bon, bonă, and bonus.

bun m or n (feminine singular bună, masculine plural buni, feminine/neuter plural bune)

1. good

   Antonym: rău

   E un om bun, crede-mă. ― He is a good man, trust me.

   Sunt bun la fotbal. ― I am good at football.

• bunătate

bun n (plural bunuri)

1. good, asset, possession

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]

bun m (plural buni, feminine equivalent bună)

1. (uncommon) grandfather

   Synonym: bunic

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

• IPA^(key): /pun/

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

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

• Edward Dwelly (1911), “bun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 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

bun m

1. coffee

Borrowed from Portuguese bom.

bun

1. good

bun

1. very, rather

bun

1. romanization of 𒇌 (bun)

From English bone.

bun

1. (anatomy) bone
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:

     Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.

     →New International Version translation

• Volker, C. A. (general editor), et al. (2008), Papua New Guinea Tok Pisin English Dictionary, Oxford University Press in association with Wantok Niuspepa, →ISBN, page 13

From Ottoman Turkish بوك (buñ), Proto-Turkic *buŋ. Cognate with Kazakh мұң (mūñ), Bashkir моң (moŋ), Tatar моң (moñ).

bun

1. distress

• IPA^(key): /bũ̀/

bùn

1. (transitive) to dash, to donate, to give away

   ó bùn mi ní owó ― He gave me money

2. (transitive) to gift, bless, or endow someone
3. (intransitive) to be gifted, endowed, or blessed with something

• Sense 1 is a verbal element that subcategorizes an NP-object (receiver) + ní + NP phrase
• bun before a direct object