# sunna
## English
### Noun

sunna (countable and uncountable, plural sunnas)
* Alternative form of sunnah

## Alemannic German
### Alternative forms

* sunnu, sònnò, ŝchunna, ŝchunnà

### Etymology

From Middle High German sunne, from Old High German sunna, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (“sun”).

### Noun

sunna f
* (Formazza) sun, the Sun

### References

* 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

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* suna

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsuna]

### Noun

sunna f
* sunnah

#### Related terms

* sunnita
* sunnitský

### Further reading

* “sunna”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “sunna”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

## Hausa
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sún.nàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [sɪ́n.nàː]

#### Noun

sunnā̀ f (plural sunnōnī, possessed form sunnàr̃)
* (Islam) sunnah

### Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /sún.nàː/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [sɪ́n.nàː]

#### Verb

sunnā̀ (grade 1)
* (with an indirect object) To give something secretly to someone.

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse sunna, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wen- < *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).
Germanic cognates: Faroese sunna, English sun, West Frisian sinne, Low German Sünn, Zunne, Dutch zon, German Sonne, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō).
Indo-European cognates: Sanskrit स्वर् (svar), Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios), Latin sol, Old Church Slavonic слъньцє (slŭnĭce), Russian солнце (solnce), Latvian saũle, Welsh haul.

### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -ʏnːa

### Noun

sunna f (genitive singular sunnu, nominative plural sunnur)
* (poetic) sun
    Synonyms: sól, (poetic) röðull

#### Derived terms

* sunnudagur

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna, “habit, custom”).

### Noun

sunna f
* (Islam) sunnah

## Middle English
### Noun

sunna
* (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of sonne (“sun”)

## Old Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (“sun”).

#### Noun

sunna f
* sun

##### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: sonne f or m
** Dutch: zon
*** Afrikaans: son
*** Berbice Creole Dutch: sono
*** Jersey Dutch: zon
*** Negerhollands: son, zon
*** → Sranan Tongo: son (see there for further descendants)
** Limburgish: zón
** West Flemish: zunne
** Zealandic: zunne

##### Further reading

* “sunna”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

### Etymology 2

Unclear.

#### Noun

sunna ?
* Son (a village in modern North Brabant, the Netherlands)

##### Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

#### Further reading

* van Berkel, Gerard, Samplonius, Kees (2018) “son”, in Nederlandse plaatsnamen verklaard‎ (in Dutch), Mijnbestseller.nl, →ISBN

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnō. Masculine form of sunne.

### Noun

sunna m
* sun

#### Declension

Weak:

#### Descendants

* Middle English: sonne, sunne, sone, son, sune, sun, sunna, sunnæ, synne, soen, zunne (Southern West Mid), zonne (Kent)
** English: sun
** Scots: sun
** Yola: zin

### References

* Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “sunna”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

## Old High German
### Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (“sun”).

#### Noun

sunna f
* sun

##### Descendants

* Middle High German: sunne f or m
** Alemannic German: Sunnä
    Italian Walser: sunna, sunnu, sònnò, ŝchunna, ŝchunnà
** Bavarian: Son
    Cimbrian: sunn, sonde, zunna
    Mòcheno: sunn
    Udinese: suna, sune, sunne
    Viennese: Sun
** Central Franconian: Sonn, Sunn (rarer variant)
*** Hunsrik: Sunn, Sonn
*** Luxembourgish: Sonn
** German: Sonne
** Rhine Franconian:
    Palatine German: Sunn
    Pennsylvania German: Sunn
** Vilamovian: zunn, zun
** Yiddish: זון (zun)

#### References

* Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition

### Etymology 2

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō.

#### Noun

sunna f
* an excuse
* justification
* law

#### References

* Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014
* Grimm, Jacob, Teutonic Mythology, vol 1, 1882.

## Old Irish
### Adverb

sunna
* Alternative spelling of sund

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ (“sun”).

### Noun

sunna f (genitive sunnu)
* (poetic, heiti) sun
    Synonym: sól

#### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:non:sól

#### Derived terms

* setr sunnu (“the seat of the sun; heaven”)

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (“sun”).

### Noun

sunna f
* sun

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: sunne, sonne f or m
** Dutch Low Saxon: zunne
** German Low German: Sünn, Sünne
** Plautdietsch: Sonn

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French sunna.

### Noun

sunna f (uncountable)
* sunnah

#### Declension
## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* suna, sunnah

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُنَّة (sunna). Compare Javanese ꦱꦸꦤꦃ (sunah). Doublet of sunat (“circumcision”).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog) IPA: /ˈsuna/ [ˈsuː.n̪ɐ]
* Rhymes: -una
* Syllabification: su‧nna

### Noun

sunna (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜈ) (Islam)
* sunnah

### Further reading

* “sunna”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018