# pun
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: pŭn, IPA: /pʌn/
* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /pʊn/
* Rhymes: -ʌn
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Etymology 1

(Can this etymology be sourced?) From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

#### Verb

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)
* (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
** c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.
* (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.
    We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.

##### Translations
#### Noun

pun (plural puns)
* A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.
    Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words
    Hypernym: joke
    Hyponym: antanaclasis
    The pun is the lowest form of wit.
** 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 124:"Certainly, my home at my uncle's brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears, and Vices, I saw enough. Now do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat."Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice anglais.

##### Derived terms

* no pun intended
* punacious
* pun intended
* punless
* punlike
* punnily
* punny
* pun-off
* punster
* puntastic
* visual pun

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (“fen”).

#### Noun

pun (plural puns or pun)
* (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”)

### Etymology 3

From Hindi [Term?].

#### Alternative forms

* pund

#### Noun

pun (plural puns)
* (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
** 1864, The Regulations of the Bengal Code in Force in September 1862, page 1019:Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas. Sheep, goats, &c., 1 pun of cowries each.

#### References

* Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “pun”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

### Anagrams

* N-up, NPU, UPN, nup

## Chuukese
### Conjunction

pun
* because

## Dalmatian
### Alternative forms

* puan
* pen (Ragusan dialect)

### Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

### Noun

pun m
* (Vegliot) bread

## Iban
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayic *puhun (compare Malay pohon), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pun]

### Noun

pun
* tree (large woody plant)

## Indonesian
### Etymology

Inherited from Malay pun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpun/, [ˈpun]
* Hyphenation: pun

### Adverb

pun
* also, too
    Synonym: juga
* even, though, although, nevertheless
    Synonyms: biar, meski, kendati, saja
* besides
* any, every

### Further reading

* “pun” 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.

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *puqun, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun. Compare Tagalog puno, Malay pohon, Indonesian pohon.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpun/ [ˈpun]

### Noun

pun
* trunk of a tree
* origin, source
    Synonym: ibat

#### See also

* dutung

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* pon (informal, pronunciation respelling)

### Etymology

Probably from Proto-Austronesian *pa (“still, first, yet”)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pon]
** Audio (Malaysia):(file)
* Rhymes: -on
* Hyphenation: pun

### Adverb

pun (Jawi spelling ڤون)
* also, too
    Synonym: juga
    Adam pun tahu.Adam knows too.
* even
    Adam pun tahu.Even Adam knows.

#### Related terms

* -pun

#### Descendants

* Indonesian: pun

### Further reading

* “pun” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pun]

### Etymology 1
#### Verb

pun
* inflection of pune:
** first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
** third-person plural present indicative

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin punicus.

#### Noun

pun m (plural puni)
* Punic, Carthaginian

##### Declension
## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьlnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pílˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pûn/

### Adjective

pȕn (Cyrillic spelling пу̏н, definite pȕnī)
* full, filled
** 1980s, Max Vincent AKA Miša Mihajlović (lyrics and music), “Beogradska Devojka”:Tako drska i obesna si ti / ti si puna ljubaviYou are so arrogant and rude / you are full of love
* fleshy, plump
* full, complete
* occupied (of room)

#### Declension
## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpun/ [ˈpũn]
* Rhymes: -un
* Syllabification: pun

### Noun

pun m (uncountable)
* (onomatopoeia) the sound of discharging a firearm
    Synonym: pum
* (onomatopoeia, vulgar) the sound of flatulence

### Further reading

* “pun”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Sundanese

Sundanese register set :
| lemes | {{{le}}} |
| lemes ka sorangan | pun |
| lemes ka batur | tuang |
| loma | si |
| cohag | {{{co}}} |

### Etymology

From Javanese ꦥꦸꦤ꧀ (pun).

### Article

pun (Sundanese script ᮕᮥᮔ᮪)
* direct marker placed before names or terms of address of people
* (lemes) direct marker placed before kinship terms; my
    Synonym: -ing (obsolete)
    pun bojo ― my wife
    pun anak ― my child
    Abdi ka dieu sareng pun bapa ― I'm going here with my father

### Further reading

* "POEN", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij