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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: s?n, IPA^(key): /s?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: son

Etymology 1

From Middle English sonne, sunne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunn?, from Proto-Germanic *sunn?, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh?wen-, oblique of *sóh?wl? (“sun”)

See also Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, German Low German Sünn, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Icelandic sunna; outside of Germanic, Welsh huan, Sanskrit ???? (s?nú), Avestan ????????????????? (x????g)).

Related to sol, Sol, Surya, and Helios. More at solar.

Alternative forms

• (proper noun, star which the Earth revolves around): Sun (capitalized)
• sonne, sunne (obsolete spelling)

Proper noun

sun

2. The star that the Earth revolves around and from which it receives light and warmth.

Usage notes

• While the sun by tradition is typically regarded as masculine, the noun itself was originally feminine in grammatical gender.

Translations

See sun/translations § Proper noun.

Noun

sun (plural suns)

1. (astronomy) A star, especially when seen as the centre of any single solar system.
2. The light and warmth which is received from the sun; sunshine or sunlight.
3. (figuratively) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.

   • For the Lord God is a sun and shield.

   • 1649, Charles I of England (attributed), Eikon Basilike

     I will never consent to put out the sun of sovereignity to posterity.

4. (chiefly literary) Sunrise or sunset.
   • , p.184 (republished 1832):

     whilst many an hunger-starved poor creature pines in the street, wants clothes to cover him, labours hard all day long, runs, rides for a trifle, fights peradventure from sun to sun, sick and ill, weary, full of pain and grief, is in great distress and sorrow of heart.
5. A revolution of the Earth around the Sun; a year.
6. A transversing of the sky by the Sun; a day.
7. The nineteenth trump/major arcana card of the Tarot.
8. (cartomancy) The thirty-first Lenormand card.

Derived terms

Translations

See sun/translations § Noun.

Verb

sun (third-person singular simple present suns, present participle sunning, simple past and past participle sunned)

1. (transitive) To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.

   Synonym: apricate
2. (transitive) To warm or dry in the sunshine.
3. (intransitive) To be exposed to the sun.
4. (intransitive, alternative medicine) To expose the eyes to the sun as part of the Bates method.

Hypernyms

• bask

Derived terms

• sun up

Translations

See sun/translations § Verb.

See also

Etymology 2

From Japanese ? (sun).

Noun

sun (plural sun)

1. A traditional Japanese unit of length, approximately 30.3 millimetres (1.193 inches).

Etymology 3

Noun

sun (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of sunn (“the plant”)

Further reading

• sun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sun at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• 'uns, NUS, UNS, USN, uns

Bambara

Etymology 1

Noun

sun

1. trunk (of tree)

Usage notes

Often used in a compound with the name of a tree to indicate that kind of tree.

Etymology 2

From Arabic ?????? (?awm, “fasting; abstaining from food, drink, and sex”), from Classical Syriac ????? (?awm??)

Noun

sun

1. fasting (during the month of Ramadan)

Noun

sun

1. to fast

Bavarian

Alternative forms

• sunn, suun

Etymology

From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-West Germanic *sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”). Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

Noun

sun

1. (Sauris) son

References

• “sun” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Cimbrian

Noun

sun m

1. (Tredici Comuni) son

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sun/, [?s?un]
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: sun

Etymology 1

Possibly from etymology 2, originally as a replacement of mun, eroded variant of muin which was reinterpreted as the genitive singular of mä.

Conjunction

sun

1. (coordinating) A coordinating conjunction expressing generality.

   En nyt jouda, kun tässä on sitä sun tätä tekemistä.

   I don't have time for that because I have this and that to do (miscellaneous stuff/things to do).

   Lautanen oli täynnä makaroonilaatikkoa, makkaraa, salaattia, perunamuussia sun muuta pöperöä.

   The plate was full of macaroni casserole, sausage, salad, mashed potatoes and other grub.

Etymology 2

From the standard language form sinun (“your, yours”)

Pronoun

sun

1. (colloquial) genitive of sä

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin sonus.

Noun

sun m (plural suns)

1. sound
2. music

Synonyms

• (music): musiche

Related terms

• sunâ

Inari Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *sonë.

Pronoun

sun

1. he, she, it

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch zoen (“kiss”), from Middle Dutch zoene, soen, soene, swoene (“reconciliation; atonement; kiss”), from Old Dutch *s?na, *sw?na (“reconciliation; peace; agreement”), from Proto-Germanic *s?n?, *sw?n? (“appeasement; reconciliation; atonement; sacrifice”), from Proto-Indo-European *sw?-n- (“healthy; whole; active; vigorous”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?n]
• Hyphenation: sun

Noun

sun (first-person possessive sunku, second-person possessive sunmu, third-person possessive sunnya)

1. kiss, a touch with the lips, usually to express love or affection, or as a greeting.

   Synonym: ciuman

Derived terms

Further reading

• “sun” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Kaingang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??udn/

Verb

sun

1. To warm oneself by staying near a fire.

References

Ladin

Preposition

sun

1. on, over
2. in

Verb

sun

1. Alternative form of son

Manchu

Romanization

sun

1. Romanization of ???

Mandarin

Romanization

sun

1. Nonstandard spelling of s?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of s?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of sùn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

sun

1. Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

Etymology 2

Noun

sun

1. Alternative form of sone (“son”)

Mimi of Nachtigal

Etymology

Similar to (and likely a borrowing of, or possibly the lender of) the word used for water in the "third Mimi" language, Amdang sunu, which in turn is (per Starostin) "most likely cognate with Fur su?n ‘waterhole, well’".

Noun

sun

1. water

References

• George Starostin, On Mimi

Min Nan

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sand, from Proto-Germanic *samdaz. Cognates include West Frisian sân.

Noun

sun n (plural sun)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) sand

Derived terms

Okinawan

Verb

sun

1. romanized of ??

Old Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sonr, sunr, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz.

Noun

sun m (nominative plural synær)

1. son

Descendants

• Danish: søn

Quiripi

Noun

sun

1. (Unquachog) stone

References

• 1791, Thomas Jefferson, A vocabulary of the Language of the Unquachog Indians

Romanian

Etymology 1

Verb

sun

1. first-person singular present indicative of suna
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of suna

Etymology 2

Probably from Latin sonus, or from the verb suna.

Noun

sun n (plural sunuri)

1. (archaic) sound

Synonyms

• sunet

Scots

Etymology

From Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunn?, from Proto-Germanic *sunn?, from heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh?wen- (“sun”), oblique stem *sóh?wl? (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n/, /s?n/

Noun

sun (plural suns)

1. sun

Derived terms

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [sun??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [?un??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??w??m??] ~ [s?w??m??]

Verb

sun

1. (intransitive) To shrink.
2. (transitive) To pull together.

   sun vai

   to pull one’s shoulders together

References

• "sun" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

English

Etymology

From French parasol, from Italian parasole, from para- (“to shield”) +? sole (“sun”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pæ???s?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p????s?l/

Noun

parasol (plural parasols)

1. A small light umbrella used as protection from the sun.
2. A miniature paper umbrella used as a decoration in tropical-themed cocktails.
3. (architecture) A roof or covering of a structure designed to provide cover from wind, rain, or sun.

Synonyms

• (small light umbrella): sunshade, umbrella, beach umbrella

Derived terms

• parasol ant
• parasol cell
• parasol mushroom
• parasol tree
• parasol wing

Translations

Verb

parasol (third-person singular simple present parasols, present participle parasoling or parasolling, simple past and past participle parasoled or parasolled)

1. (transitive) To protect with, or as if with, a parasol; to shade.
   • 1826, The Monthly Magazine (page 161)

     Now old ladies, who dare venture a-shopping, go parasolling their withered perfections along, and entertain a decided dread of injuring the immaterial whiteness of their skins, which have ceased to he compared to "lilies" and "snows," and other sonnet-like similes, for more than thirty summers […]

   • 2013, Geoff Ryman, The King's Last Song (page 19)

     […] the buffaloes in the mire, and rows of trees parasolling houses along the waterways.

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French parasol, from Italian parasole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa?.ra??s?l/
• Hyphenation: pa?ra?sol
• Rhymes: -?l

Noun

parasol m (plural parasols or parasollen, diminutive parasolletje n)

1. parasol

Derived terms

• parasolvoet

Related terms

• paraplu

French

Etymology

From Italian parasole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.?a.s?l/

Noun

parasol m (plural parasols)

1. A large, anchored umbrella used as protection from the sun.

Further reading

• “parasol” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

parar (“to stop”) +? sol (“sun”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ol

Noun

parasol m (plural parasois)

1. umbrella, sunshade, parasol (used to protect against the sun)
2. sun visor

Synonyms

• (sunshade): antuca f, catasol m

Mauritian Creole

Etymology

From French parasol

Noun

parasol

1. umbrella

References

• Baker, Philip & Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. 1987. Dictionnaire de créole mauricien. Morisyen – English – Français

Polish

Etymology

From French parasol, from Italian parasole.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa?ra.s?l/

Noun

parasol m inan

1. umbrella (used to protect against the sun or rain)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) parasolka, parasolnik
• (adjectives) parasolowy, parasolowaty

Related terms

• (noun) parasolnictwo
• (adjectives) parasolkowy, parasolkowaty, parasolniczy
• (adverbs) parasolowato, parasolkowato

Further reading

• parasol in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• parasol in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Seychellois Creole

Etymology

From French parasol

Noun

parasol

1. umbrella

References

• Danielle D’Offay et Guy Lionnet, Diksyonner Kreol - Franse / Dictionnaire Créole Seychellois - Français

Spanish

Etymology

parar (“to stop”) +? sol (“sun”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ol

Noun

parasol m (plural parasoles)

1. umbrella (used to protect against the sun)
2. sunshade
3. (automotive) sun visor
4. parasol

See also

• parabrisas
• paraguas
• parachoques
• paracaídas