Gun

Gun

1. A Gbe language spoken in parts of Benin and Nigeria.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Gun terms

• Gun-ob

• Gun language on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Ung, gnu, NGU, GNU, UNG, nug, Ngu, NGu

First attested as ther gonne in 1321. Etymology uncertain. The toponym is potentially derived from an ancient hydronym or from the name of a type of land grant. Alternatively, it may refer to the poor quality of the soil around the settlement. Compare Euvelgunne.

• IPA^(key): /ɣʏn/

• Dutch pronunciation:

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• Hyphenation: Gun
• Rhymes: -ʏn
• Homophone: gun

Gun n

1. a hamlet in Horst aan de Maas, Limburg, Netherlands

• van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

From Old Norse Gunnr, short form of female compound names with the element gunnr (“battle”). Name of a Valkyrie in Norse mythology. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1891.

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Gun c (genitive Guns)

1. a female given name from Old Norse

• female given names: Gunborg, Gun-Britt, Gunhild, Gunilla, Gunnel, Gunvor
• male given names: Gunnar

• According to the Swedish Tax Agency in 2025, the name Gun belong to 26,879 individuals in Sweden.^[1]

• Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn, Almqvist & Wiksell 1996, →ISBN
• [1] Statistiska centralbyrån and Sture Allén, Staffan Wåhlin, Förnamnsboken, Norstedts 1995, →ISBN: 34 071 females with the given name Gun living in Sweden on December 31st, 2010, with the frequency peak in the 1930s. Accessed on 19 June 2011.

• ugn, ung, ung.

From Chinese 軍 (MC kjun, “soldier”).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /kun˨˦/
• Tone numbers: Gun¹
• Hyphenation: Gun

Gun (Sawndip forms 倱 or 軍 or 倌, 1957–1982 spelling Gun)

1. Han people

Gun (Sawndip forms 倱 or 軍 or 倌, 1957–1982 spelling Gun)

1. Chinese language