zun

zun

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Zuni terms

• IPA^(key): [zʌn]

zun (plural zuns)

1. (nonstandard, British) Pronunciation spelling of sun.
   • 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century:

     Zome woys avore the zun is down,
     So long’s the sky is clear;

   • 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire:

     GOOD bwye ta thee Cot! whaur tha dâs o’ my childhood
     Glaw’d bright as tha zun in a mornin o’ mâ;

Romanized from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 樽 (zūn).

• IPA^(key): /zʊn/, /dzʊn/

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• Rhymes: -ʊn

zun (plural zuns or zun)

1. A type of Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel with a round or square vase-like form, sometimes in the shape of an animal.

• sun, sunn

From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”). Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

zun m (plural zünne)

1. (Sette Comuni) son

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• ğun (alternative orthography)

From a Vulgar Latin derivative of Latin jejūnus, from ieiūnus.

zun

1. fasting
2. (figurative) lacking

• dizun
• zunâ

• IPA^(key): /tsuːn/, /tsʊn/

zun (+ optional adjective(s) ending with -en + plural noun)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to or for the (contraction of zu + den)

zun

1. Rōmaji transcription of ずん

Borrowed from Burmese ဇွန်း (jwan:).

zun

1. spoon

• Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎^[1], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

zun

1. nonstandard spelling of zūn
2. nonstandard spelling of zǔn
3. nonstandard spelling of zùn

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną.

zūn ?

1. fence

• Middle High German: zūn, zoun
  • Alemannic German: Zuun
  • Central Franconian: Zong, Zung, Zuu, Zoun, Zaun
    • Luxembourgish: Zonk
  • German: Zaun
  • Vilamovian: caojn

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zun m

1. son

zun f

1. sun