pon

Abbreviation of English Pohnpeian, from Pohnpeian Pohnpei.

pon

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Pohnpeian.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Pohnpeian terms

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pɒn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /pɑn/, /pɔn/
• Rhymes: -ɒn

Borrowed from Japanese 碰 (pon).

pon (plural pons)

1. (Japanese mahjong) A call for forming a set of three identical tiles using a discarded tile.

   Synonym: pung

Among English-speaking players of the Japanese variant of mahjong, pon is more commonly used than the Cantonese-derived term pung. Unlike the common English usage of pung, pon is not typically used to refer to a set of three identical tiles, which is usually called a triplet instead.

• chii
• kan

pon

1. Alternative spelling of 'pon.

• NOP, NPO, Nop, ONP, OPN, nop

pon

1. pig

   Pon a-ruah yeih-pah.

   Place where they killed the pig.

• Richard Loving. Grammatical studies in three languages of Papua New Guinea (1974).

• IPA^(key): /pon/

pon (Kana spelling ポン)

1. small, little,few,young

   pon cikuni

   small tree

   a=oskoni katu pon ruwe ne.

   There was little (fish) available.

   pon hekaci

   young boy

pon (Kana spelling ポン)

1. to be small, to be little, to be few, to be young

   kewe pon kusu oka.

   Body is very small.

• poro

• ponno (“few”)

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpɔn]

pon

1. inflection of pondre:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

pon m

1. A clearing; an area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.

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

Clipping of japon.

• IPA^(key): /pɔn/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: pon
• Rhymes: -ɔn

pon m (plural ponnen, diminutive ponnetje n)

1. nightgown, nightdress

• nachtpon, nachtjapon

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔŋ/ [ˈpɔŋ]
• Rhymes: -ɔŋ
• Hyphenation: pon

pon

1. inflection of poñer:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative
2. inflection of pór:
   1. third-person singular/plural present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• poñen

• “pór”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025

From French pont (“bridge”).

• IPA^(key): /pɔ̃/

pon

1. bridge

pon

1. pound (16 avoirdupois ounces)

From English upon. Compare Belizean Creole pahn.

• IPA^(key): /pɒn/
• Hyphenation: pon

pon

1. on

   Weh yuh deh pon?

   What are you on?

• Jamaican Creole uses pon only for on as a preposition, so it does not use pon for on as an adjective, adverb, verb or noun.

pon

1. Rōmaji transcription of ぽん
2. Rōmaji transcription of ポン

pon

1. superseded spelling of pón

pon

1. alternative form of pown (“pawn”)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpon/ [ˈpõn]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: pon

pon

1. second-person singular imperative of poner

• “pon”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010

From French pont.

pon (nominative plural pons)

1. bridge

• IPA^(key): /pon˧/

pon

1. alternative form of puon

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 47