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fun
English
Etymology
From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”). Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond.
As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.
Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of f?mne, f?mne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnij?, from Proto-Germanic *faimnij? (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen- (“breast milk”). If so, then cognate with Old English f?mne (“maid, virgin, damsel, bride”), West Frisian famke (“girl”), Saterland Frisian fone, fon (“woman, maid, servant," also "weakling, simpleton”).
Pronunciation
- (US, UK) enPR: f?n, IPA(key): /f?n/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /f?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
Noun
fun (uncountable)
- amusement, enjoyment or pleasure
- playful, often noisy, activity.
Synonyms
- (enjoyment, amusement): amusement, diversion, enjoyment, a laugh, pleasure
- (playful, often noisy, activity): boisterousness, horseplay, rough and tumble
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
fun (comparative more fun or funner, superlative most fun or funnest)
- (informal) enjoyable, amusing
- We had a fun time at the party.
- He is such a fun person to be with.
- 2016 January 11, Tom Bateman, quoted in Nigel Hunt, "Jekyll and Hyde, TV revamp of Robert Louis Stevenson classic, debuts on CBC-TV" CBC News, Canada:
- He's the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play
- (informal) whimsical, flamboyant
- This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.
Usage notes
- Note that, prescriptively, the adjectival use of fun, instead of funny as in a funny movie, is often considered unacceptable in formal contexts. This includes censure of the comparative and superlative funner and funnest, but equally constructions such as very fun (rather than, say, a lot of fun). For more, see Quinion's discussion.
Translations
Verb
fun (third-person singular simple present funs, present participle funning, simple past and past participle funned)
- (colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
- Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.
Translations
Anagrams
- FNU, NFU, unf
Chibcha
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?un/
Noun
fun
- Alternative form of bun
References
- Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.
French
Adjective
fun (invariable)
- (colloquial) fun
Galician
Etymology 1
Inflected form of ir (“to go”).
Verb
fun
- first-person singular preterite indicative of ir
Etymology 2
Inflected form of ser (“to be”).
Verb
fun
- first-person singular preterite indicative of ser
Japanese
Romanization
fun
- R?maji transcription of ??
- R?maji transcription of ??
Tboli
Noun
fun
- owner
Yoruba
Verb
fún
- give
- choke, squeeze, strangle, throttle
- scatter, strew
- sew
Preposition
fún
- for, on behalf of
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sport
English
Etymology
From Middle English sporten (verb) and sport, spoort, sporte (noun), apheretic shortenings of disporten (verb) and disport, disporte (noun). More at disport.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sp??t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /sp??t/
- (Tasmanian) IPA(key): /sp??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spo(?)?t/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /spo?t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Noun
sport (countable and uncountable, plural sports)
- (countable) Any activity that uses physical exertion or skills competitively under a set of rules that is not based on aesthetics.
- (countable) Something done for fun, regardless of its design or intended purpose.
- (countable) A person who exhibits either good or bad sportsmanship.
- (countable) Somebody who behaves or reacts in an admirably good-natured manner, e.g. to being teased or to losing a game; a good sport.
- (obsolete) That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
- The little dog laughed to see such sport, and the dish ran away with the spoon.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:hobby
- a. 1765, year of origin unknown, Hey Diddle Diddle (traditional rhyme)
- (obsolete) Mockery, making fun; derision.
- (countable) A toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- flitting leaves, the sport of every wind
- a. 1676, John Clarke, On Governing the Temper
- Never does man appear to greater disadvantage than when he is the sport of his own ungoverned passions.
- (uncountable) Gaming for money as in racing, hunting, fishing.
- (biology, botany, zoology, countable) A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. The term encompasses both mutants and organisms with non-genetic developmental abnormalities such as birth defects.
- (slang, countable) A sportsman; a gambler.
- (slang, countable) One who consorts with disreputable people, including prostitutes.
- (obsolete, uncountable) An amorous dalliance.
- (informal, usually singular) A friend or acquaintance (chiefly used when speaking to the friend in question)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:friend
- (obsolete) Play; idle jingle.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
- An author who should introduce such a sport of words upon our stage […] would meet with small applause.
- 1725-1726, William Broome, The Odyssey
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? Japanese: ???? (sup?tsu) (from sports)
- ? Korean: ??? (seupocheu) (from sports)
Translations
Verb
sport (third-person singular simple present sports, present participle sporting, simple past and past participle sported)
- (intransitive) To amuse oneself, to play.
- (intransitive) To mock or tease, treat lightly, toy with.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- He sports with his own life.
- 1663, John Tillotson, The Wisdom of being Religious
- (transitive) To display; to have as a notable feature.
- (reflexive) To divert; to amuse; to make merry.
- Against whom do ye sport yourselves?
- (transitive) To represent by any kind of play.
- Now sporting on thy lyre the loves of youth.
- To practise the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal.
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- more than one kind of rose has sported into a moss
- 1860, Charles Darwin, The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication
- (transitive) To close (a door).
- 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
- There he locked it up in a drawer, sported the doors of both sets of rooms, and retired to bed.
- 1904, M. R. James, The Mezzotint
Translations
Anagrams
- -prost, -prost-, Ports, Prost, ports, strop, torps, trops.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?sport]
Noun
sport m inan
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
Related terms
- sportovat
- sportovec m
Further reading
- sport in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- sport in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?rt/
- Hyphenation: sport
- Rhymes: -?rt
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English sport, from Middle English sport, from Middle English sport, from older disport, from Old French desport. First attested in the 19th century. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)
- (countable) A sport; (uncountable) sports.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch sporte, metathesised form of sprote. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Noun
sport f (plural sporten, diminutive sportje n)
- rung, step on a ladder
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the main entry.
Verb
sport
- first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of sporten
- imperative of sporten
Anagrams
- sprot, strop
Estonian
Noun
sport (genitive spordi, partitive sporti)
- sport, sports
Declension
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp??/
Noun
sport m (plural sports)
- sport
Derived terms
Further reading
- “sport” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Hungarian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??port]
- Hyphenation: sport
- Rhymes: -ort
Noun
sport (plural sportok)
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- sport in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Italian
Pronunciation
Noun
sport m (invariable)
- sport (activity that uses physical skills, often competitive)
- hobby, pastime
Derived terms
Lower Sorbian
Etymology
Borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?rt/
Noun
sport m
- sport (athletic activity that uses physical skills)
Declension
References
- sport in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.
Norman
Noun
sport m (plural sports)
- (Jersey) sport (physical activity pitting two or more opponents against each other)
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
From English sport
Noun
sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
- sport
- Synonym: idrett
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Alternative forms
- spora, sporet
Verb
sport
- past participle of spore
References
- “sport” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From English sport
Noun
sport m (definite singular sporten, uncountable)
- sport
- Synonym: idrett
Derived terms
- hestesport
- kampsport
References
- “sport” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?rt/
Noun
sport m inan
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- sport in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Romanian
Etymology
From French sport.
Noun
sport n (plural sporturi)
- sport
Declension
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- šp?rt (Croatia)
Etymology
Borrowed from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spôrt/
Noun
sp?rt m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
Swedish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English sport, first used in 1857.
Pronunciation 1
- IPA(key): /?sp??/
Noun
sport c
- sport
Declension
Derived terms
See also
- idrott
References
- sport in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).
- sport in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation 2
- IPA(key): /?sp??/
Verb
sport
- supine of spörja.
Anagrams
- ports, prost, torps
West Frisian
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch sport, from English sport.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sp?(r)t/
Noun
sport c (plural sporten)
- sport (physical activity)
Further reading
- “sport”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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