different between bun vs donut

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

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 *b?en??- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“clump, clot, cluster of fruits”). More at bunch.

Alternative forms

• bunn (archaic)

Noun

bun (plural buns)

1. A small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced.
2. A tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head.

   Synonyms: hair bun, French roll

   Hyponym: messy bun

3. (Northern England, Ireland) A cupcake.
4. (slang, Britain) A drunken spree.
5. (Internet, slang) A newbie.
6. (informal, chiefly in the plural) A buttock.
7. (informal) vagina
   • 1996 Richard Sandomir Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless page 5

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

   • 2015 Rachelle Ayala Whole Latte Love 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.

Synonyms

• cake

Derived terms

• (hairstyle): Princess Leia bun
• (hairstyle): man-bun

Translations

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

bun (plural buns)

1. (dialect, archaic) A rabbit or sometimes a squirrel.

Etymology 3

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

Verb

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

1. (Caribbean and MLE, 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 anyday

   • 2011, Jme, "Mike Lowery"

     Some man acting dumb, think's he's a gun-man, wanna bring me drama. How you gonna bun me?

Noun

bun (plural buns)

1. (Caribbean and MLE, slang) marijuana cigarette, joint

Etymology 4

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

Alternative forms

• p'un, pun

Noun

bun (plural buns or bun)

1. (Korean units of measure) A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

References

Anagrams

• nub

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *bhun?. Compare Illyrian *bounon. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?ewd?- (“to be wake, keep watch”).

Noun

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

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

   Synonyms: kasolle, kolibe

Declension

Related terms

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• bunu

Etymology

From Latin bonus. Compare Daco-Romanian bun.

Adjective

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

1. good

Derived terms

Related terms

Chibcha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?un/

Noun

bun

1. bread, bun

References

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

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bun m (feminine buna)

1. good

Irish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /b??n?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /b??n?/

Noun

bun m (genitive singular buin, nominative plural bunanna)

1. base, bottom
2. stock, stump, trunk
3. lower end
4. extremity
5. basis, origin, foundation
6. basic provision
7. settled state
8. source, direction
9. trace
10. (card games) score required to win game

Declension

Synonyms

• stoc

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• Entries containing “bun” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “bun” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

References

• "bun" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Japanese

Romanization

bun

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Ligurian

Etymology

From Latin bonus.

Adjective

bun

1. good

Old French

Adjective

bun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bune)

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of bon

Declension

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bun/

Noun

bun m (genitive bona, nominative plural bonai)

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

Inflection

Descendants

Mutation

References

Further reading

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

Romanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bun/

Etymology 1

From Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos, from Proto-Indo-European *dew- (“to show favor, revere”).

Adjective

bun m or n (feminine singular bun?, masculine plural buni, feminine and neuter plural bune)

1. good

   Antonym: r?u

Declension

Derived terms

Related terms

• bun?tate

Noun

bun n (plural bunuri)

1. good, asset, possession

Declension

Etymology 2

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”) .

Noun

bun m (plural buni, feminine equivalent bun?)

1. (uncommon) grandfather

   Synonym: bunic

Derived terms

References

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pun/

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

Mutation

References

• “bun” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Somali

Noun

bun ?

1. coffee

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese bom.

Adjective

bun

1. good

Adverb

bun

1. very, rather

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English bone.

Noun

bun

1. (anatomy) bone

English

Alternative forms

• doughnut

Etymology

Alteration of doughnut, from dough +? nut. Attested 1900.

Pronunciation

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /?do?n?t/, /?do??n?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

donut (plural donuts)

1. (American spelling, Canadian spelling) A deep-fried piece of dough or batter, commonly made in a toroidal or ellipsoidal shape, and mixed with various sweeteners and flavors, sometimes filled with jelly, custard or cream.
   • 1900, George Wilbur Peck, Peck’s bad boy and his pa, Stanton and Van Vliet, p. 107:

     …Pa said he guessed he hadn’t got much appetite, and he would just drink a cup of coffee and eat a donut.

2. (Canada, US) Anything in the shape of a torus.
3. (Canada, US, automobile) A peel-out or skid-mark in the shape of donut; a 360-degree skid.
4. (Canada, US) A spare tire, smaller and less durable than a full-sized tire, only intended for temporary use.
5. A toroidal cushion typically used by hemorrhoid patients.
6. (Canada, US, slang) An idiot. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Usage notes

This spelling was rare until 1950s, increasingly popular since then, possibly influenced by spread of Dunkin' Donuts (founded 1950).

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Tondu

Cebuano

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Noun

donut

1. a doughnut; a deep-fried piece of dough or batter

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English donut, from older doughnut.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do?.n?t/
• Hyphenation: do?nut

Noun

donut m (plural donuts, diminutive donutje n)

1. A doughnut, a donut.

Related terms

• deeg
• noot

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

Noun

donut m (plural donuts)

1. doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• dónute

Etymology

Borrowed from English.

Pronunciation

Noun

donut m (plural donuts)

1. doughnut (deep-fried piece of dough or batter)

   Synonym: (Brazil) rosquinha

Spanish

Noun

donut m (plural donuts)

1. Alternative form of dónut (“donut, doughnut”)