# Moon
## English
### Etymology 1

From Middle English Mone, mone, from Old English mōna, from Proto-West Germanic *mānō, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”), from *meh₁- (“to measure”).

#### Alternative forms

* moon
* moone (obsolete)
* ☽ (alchemy)

#### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /muːn/
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* (General American) IPA: /mun/
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* Rhymes: -uːn

#### Proper noun

Moon or the Moon
* The Earth's moon; the sole natural satellite of the Earth, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☾.
    Synonyms: Cynthia (literary), Luna (science fiction or poetic), Selene (poetic); ☾, ☽ (astronomical/astrological symbols)
* (paganism) A personification of the moon.
** 1994, Tony Linsell, Anglo-Saxon Mythology, Migration & Magic, Anglo-Saxon Books, →ISBN, page 15:Moon, the companion of Night, waxes and wanes, and we call this time a month.
** 2005, Falcon Stow, An Anglo-Saxon Almanac, privately published, page 13:Moon's Day.
** 2005, Diana Paxson, Taking up the Runes, Weiser Books, →ISBN, page 328:Sun come, Moon come, Seed time, dry time, fog and rain, Sowing, growing, reaping, resting, Sun come, Moon come, etc.
* The 54th sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.

##### Derived terms

* Moon buggy
* Moon tree
* Moonless
* Moonman

##### Translations

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##### See also

Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text) :
| Star | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun | Sun |
| IAU planets and notable dwarf planets | Mercury | Venus | Earth | Mars | Ceres | Jupiter | Saturn | Uranus | Neptune | Pluto | Eris |
| Notable moons | — | — | Moon | Phobos Deimos | — | Io Europa Ganymede Callisto | Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus | Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon | Triton | Charon | Dysnomia |

### Etymology 2

* A variant of Mohan, from Irish.
* A habitational name of Norman origin from Moyon in La Manche. Compare Mounce.
* Americanized form of German Mohn or a similar surname.
* A variant of Mun, from Korean.
* A variant Romanization of Chinese 文 (Wén), 萬 / 万 (Wàn), and 滿 / 满 (Mǎn).
* Possibly from Cantonese 滿 / 满 (mun$^5$, “full; complete”).

#### Proper noun

Moon
* A surname.
* A number of places in the United States:
** An unincorporated community in Morgan County, Kentucky.
** A township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
** A ghost town in Pennington County, South Dakota.
** An unincorporated community in Mathews County, Virginia.
** An unincorporated community in Marathon County, Wisconsin.

##### Derived terms

* Laurence-Moon syndrome
* Moonie

##### Statistics

* According to the 2010 United States Census, Moon is the 758th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 45,528 individuals. Moon is most common among White (65.7%) and Black/African American (10.0%) individuals.

### References

* ↑ Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Moon”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 615.

### Anagrams

* Mono, OMON, mono, mono-, nomo-