different between sunburn vs brown

English

Etymology

From Middle English *sunne burnen, *sonne brennen, *sunne brennen (suggested by derivatives sonne brennynge, sunne brennynge (“sunburn”, literally “sun-burning”) and sunne brente (“sunburnt”), equivalent to sun +? burn. Compare West Frisian sinnebrân (“sunburn”), Dutch zonnebrand (“sunburn”), German Sonnenbrand (“sunburn”), Swedish solbränna (“sunburn”), Icelandic sólbruni (“sunburn”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?s?nb?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?nb??n/

Noun

sunburn (countable and uncountable, plural sunburns)

1. A burn on the skin caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.
2. A burn on the tissue of crop plants or their fruits (especially if they are rich in water like tomatoes, grapes, apples, gooseberries) caused by excess exposure to the sun's rays.

   Synonym: sunscald

Related terms

• sunburnt
• windburn

Translations

Verb

sunburn (third-person singular simple present sunburns, present participle sunburning, simple past and past participle sunburned)

1. (intransitive) To receive a sunburn.
   • c. 1613, John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, London: D.N. and T.C., 1678, Act V, Scene 2, p. 64,^[1]

     I have brought

     Your grace a Salamanders skin, to keep you

     From sun-burning.

   • 1724, Aaron Hill, The Plain Dealer, No. 81, 28 December, 1724, London: S. Richardson and A. Wilde, Volume 2, p. 199,^[2]

     […] there is a a Country, in the World, call’d Turkey; where Women are secur’d against the Danger of Sun-burning, by being kept out of the open Air, and lock’d up, like other Jewels, in Places where no Mischief can reach ’em.
2. (transitive) To burn or tan (someone's skin) by the sun; to allow (a part of one's body) to become sunburnt.
   • 1668, John Dryden, Sir Martin Mar-all, London: H. Herringman, Act II, p. 11,^[3]

     My Aunt charg’d me not to pull off my Glove for fear of Sun-burning my hand.

   • 1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Penguin, 1999, Part 3, Chapter 1, p. 171,^[4]

     As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert […]

   • 1989, Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees, New York: Harper and Row, Chapter 7, p. 95,^[5]

     “Oh shoot, I’ve sunburned the top half of my boobs,” she said, frowning down her chest.

Translations

Anagrams

• unburns

English

Etymology

From Middle English broun, from Old English br?n (“brown; dark; dusky”), from Proto-Germanic *br?naz (compare West Frisian brún, Dutch bruin, German braun), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erH- (compare Ancient Greek ????? (phrún?), ?????? (phrûnos, “toad”); Latin brunneus (“brown”)), compare Lithuanian b??ras (“brown”), Sanskrit ????? (babhrú, “reddish-brown”)). Doublet of bruin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b?a?n/
• Rhymes: -a?n

Noun

brown (countable and uncountable, plural browns)

1. (countable and uncountable) A colour like that of chocolate or coffee.

2. (snooker, countable) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 4 points.
3. (uncountable) Black tar heroin.
4. (slang, archaic, countable) A copper coin.
5. A brown horse or other animal.
6. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of Middle Eastern, Latino or South Asian descent; a brown-skinned person; someone of mulatto or biracial appearance.
7. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae (formerly the family Satyridae).
8. (entomology) Any of certain species of nymphalid butterflies of subfamily Satyrinae, such as those of the genera Heteronympha and Melanitis.
9. (informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
10. (hunting, as "the brown") A mass of birds or animals that may be indiscriminately fired at.
    • 1928, R. Pigot, Twenty-five Years Big Game Hunting (page 166)

      The temptation to have a shot into the brown was great. There was not a head there which was not a big one and the one by himself was not too easy a shot since it is always difficult to shoot when lying in soft snow.

    • 1979, Kevin Andrews, Athens Alive (page 223)

      My anger mounted at this, I opened the courtyard door and raised my musket to fire into the brown; I had loaded it with small shot, and if it had gone off that would have been the death of us and the ruin of all of us in the house.

Derived terms

• mummy brown

Descendants

• Bislama: braon
• Tok Pisin: braun
• ? Welsh: brown
• ? Tongan: palauni

Translations

Adjective

brown (comparative browner or more brown, superlative brownest or most brown)

1. Having a brown colour.
2. (obsolete) Gloomy.
3. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
   1. (US) Latino
   2. (of Asians) South Asian
   3. (of East Asians) Southeast Asian

Descendants

• American Sign Language: B@Cheek-PalmForward B@Jaw-PalmForward

Translations

Verb

brown (third-person singular simple present browns, present participle browning, simple past and past participle browned)

1. (intransitive) To become brown.
2. (cooking, transitive) To cook something until it becomes brown.

3. (intransitive, transitive) To tan.

4. (transitive) To make brown or dusky.
5. (transitive) To give a bright brown colour to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coating of oxide on their surface.
6. (demography, transitive, intransitive, slang, ethnic slur, usually derogatory, offensive) To turn progressively more Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Latino, in the context of the population of a geographic region.

7. (transitive) To treat with deference, or respect.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• brunet
• burnet

See also

• golding

Welsh

Etymology

Borrowed from English brown.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /brou?n/

Adjective

brown (feminine singular brown, plural brown, equative browned, comparative brownach, superlative brownaf)

1. brown

Mutation

See also