baun

From Old Norse baun, from Proto-Germanic *baunō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”).

• IPA^(key): /pøyːn/
• Rhymes: -øyːn

baun f (genitive singular baunar, nominative plural baunir)

1. bean, pea

• baunagras (“sea pea, Lathyrus japonicus”)
• baunir (“lentil soup”)
• ekki baun, ekki baun í bala (“not at all, not a whit”)
• kjúklingabaun

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baun (plural baun-baun)

1. wood stack for cassowary egg laying

• “baun” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Germanic *baunō, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰabʰ- (“bean”). Compare Old English bean (English bean), Old Frisian bāne (West Frisian bean), Old Saxon bōna (Low German Bohn), Dutch boon, Old High German bōna (German Bohne).

baun f (genitive baunar, plural baunir)

1. bean

• Icelandic: baun
• Norwegian Nynorsk: baune, bauna; (dialectal) bogna (aun > ogn)
• Old Swedish: bø̄n, bø̄na
  • Swedish: böna (added -a under Middle Low German influence)
• Danish: bønne (added -e under Middle Low German influence)
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bønne
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: bønne
  • → Faroese: bøn, bøna
• → Middle Irish: pónair (from the plural baunir)
  • Irish: pónaire
  • Manx: poanrey
  • Scottish Gaelic: pònair

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “baun”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• bawn

Borrowed from Irish bán.

• IPA^(key): /bɑːn/
• Homophone: bawen

baun

1. white
   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:

     An a priesth o parieshe on his garrane baun,

     The priest of the parish on his white pony,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 94