different between yellow vs sun

English

Alternative forms

• yeallow (obsolete), yeller (dialect)

Etymology

From Middle English yelwe, yelou, from Old English ?eolwe, oblique form of of Old English ?eolu, from Proto-West Germanic *gelu, from Proto-Germanic *gelwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *??elh?wos, from *??elh?- (“gleam, yellow”)

Compare Welsh gwelw (“pale”), Latin helvus (“dull yellow”)), Irish geal (“white, bright”), Lithuanian žalias (“green”), Ancient Greek ?????? (khl?rós, “light green”), Persian ???? (zard, “yellow”), Sanskrit ??? (hari, “greenish-yellow”)). Cognate with German gelb (“yellow”), Dutch geel (“yellow”).

The verb is from Old English ?eolwian, from the adjective.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?j?l.??/
• (General American) enPR: y?l??, IPA^(key): /?j?l.o?/
• (dialect) IPA^(key): /?j?l.?/
• (dated, Southern US folk speech) IPA^(key): /j?l?/, /?jæl?/, /?j?l?/, /?j?l?/, /?j?l?/
• Rhymes: -?l??

Adjective

yellow (comparative yellower or more yellow, superlative yellowest or most yellow)

1. Having yellow as its color.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667) - Book X, line 434

     A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought / First fruits, the green ear and the yellow sheaf.

   • 1911, J. Milton Hayes, "The green eye of the little yellow god,"

     There's a one-eyed yellow idol / To the north of Kathmandu; / There's a little marble cross below the town; / And a brokenhearted woman / Tends the grave of 'Mad' Carew, / While the yellow god for ever gazes down.

   • 1962 (quoting c. 1398 text), Hans Kurath & Sherman M. Kuhn, editors, Middle English Dictionary, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242:

     dorr??, d?r? adj. & n. […] Golden or reddish-yellow […] (a. 1398) *Trev. Barth. 59b/a: ?elou? colour [of urine] […] tokeneþ febleness of hete […] dorrey & citrine & li?t red tokeneþ mene.

   Antonyms: nonyellow, unyellow

2. (informal) Lacking courage.
   • 1951, J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 13:

     What you should be is not yellow at all. If you're supposed to sock somebody in the jaw, and you sort of feel like doing it, you should do it.

   • 1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

     You yellow bastards! Come back here and take what's coming to you!

   Synonym: cowardly

3. (publishing, journalism) Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.
   • 2004, Doreen Carvajal, "Photo edict muffles gossipy press," International Herald Tribune, 4 Oct. (retrieved 29 July 2008),

     The denizens of the gossipy world of the pink press, purple prose and yellow tabloids are shivering over disputed photographs of Princess Caroline of Monaco.

4. (chiefly derogatory, offensive, racist) Of the skin, having the colour traditionally attributed to Far East Asians, especially Chinese.
5. (chiefly derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) Far East Asian (relating to Asian people).
   • 1913, Sax Rohmer, The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu

     Imagine that awful being, and you have a mental picture of Dr. Fu-Manchu, the yellow peril incarnate in one man.
6. (dated, Australia, offensive) Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, Chapter VI, p. 64, [2]

     "Eh, Oscar—you hear about your yeller nephew?".

7. (dated, US) Synonym of high yellow
   • 1933 September 9, James Thurber, “My Life and Hard Times—VI. A Sequence of Servants”, in The New Yorker

     Charley threw her over for a yellow gal named Nancy: he never forgave Vashti for the vanishing from his life of a menace that had come to mean more to him than Vashti herself.

8. (Britain, politics) Related to the Liberal Democrats.
   • 2012 March 2, Andrew Grice, "Yellow rebels take on Clegg over NHS 'betrayal'", The Independent

9. (politics) Related to the Free Democratic Party of Germany.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

yellow (plural yellows)

1. The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.
2. (US) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
3. (snooker) One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.
4. (pocket billiards) One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).
5. (sports) A yellow card.
6. Any of various pierid butterflies of the subfamily Coliadinae, especially the yellow coloured species. Compare sulphur.

Synonyms

• (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): amber (British)

Antonyms

• (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): red, green

Hyponyms

• (color): bronze yellow, cadmium yellow, fast yellow AB, quinoline yellow, school bus yellow, sulfur yellow, sulphur yellow, taxi yellow, yellow-green, yellow 2G

Derived terms

• beyellowed
• see yellow

Translations

Verb

yellow (third-person singular simple present yellows, present participle yellowing, simple past and past participle yellowed)

1. (intransitive) To become yellow or more yellow.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, page 47:

     Then suddenly, with the least warning, the sky yellows and the Chergui blows in from the Sahara, stinging the eyes and choking with its sandy, sticky breath.

   • 2013, Robert Miraldi, Seymour Hersh, Potomac Books, Inc. (?ISBN), page 187:

     Interviews, clippings, yellowing stories from foreign newspapers, notebooks with old scribblings. Salisbury called it the debris of a reporter always too much on the run to sort out the paper, but there it was, an investigator's dream, […]

2. (transitive) To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

Translations

See also

• All pages with yellow as a prefix

References

Anagrams

• Yowell

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)