# fun
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), from Middle English fonne (“a fool, dupe”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”), from Old Norse fáni (“vain person, swaggerer”), but of unknown ultimate origin. Perhaps related to or influenced by fjäll (“rock, cliff, mountain”). Compare also English fumble, Norwegian Nynorsk fomme (“clumsy fool”).
Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond.
As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.
Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of fāmne, fēmne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnijā, from Proto-Germanic *faimnijǭ (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen- (“breast milk”). If so, then cognate with Old English fǣmne (“maid, virgin, damsel, bride”), West Frisian famke (“girl”), Saterland Frisian fone, fon (“woman, maid, servant," also "weakling, simpleton”).

### Pronunciation

* (US, Received Pronunciation) enPR: fŭn, IPA: /fʌn/
* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /fʊn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ʌn

### Noun

fun (uncountable)
* Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
    Synonyms: amusement, diversion, enjoyment, a laugh, pleasure
** 2000, Robert Stanley, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop 6, Alpha Books, page 377:Grafting your boss's face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real.
* Playful, often noisy, activity.
    Synonyms: boisterousness, horseplay, rough and tumble

#### Derived terms

* antifun
* unfun (adjective, noun)
* funalicious
* funless → funlessly, funlessness
* funny
* funsies
* funsome
* funster
* funemployed, funemployment
* fungasm
* funishment
* funspirational
* funtastic
* funtivity
* fun and games
* funbags, fun bags
* funboard
* funbox
* funfair
* funfest
* funfilled
* funhouse, fun house
* fun-lover, fun-loving
* funmaker, fun-maker
* fun on a bun, fun in a bun
* fun pack
* fun park
* funplex
* fun police
* fun run, fun runner, fun running
* fun size, fun-size, fun-sized
* fun sponge
* barrel of fun
* every good boy deserves fun
* figure of fun
* for fun, for the fun of it, just for fun
* fun fund
* fun up
* good fun, great fun
* have fun, have fun with, time flies when you're having fun
* in fun
* it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye
* like fun
* make fun of
* no fun, no fun at parties
* poke fun
* poke one's fun
* type II fun

#### Translations
### Adjective

fun (comparative more fun or (informal) funner, superlative most fun or (informal) funnest)
* Enjoyable or amusing.
    We had a fun time at the party.
    He is such a fun person to be with.
** 2016 January 11, Tom Bateman, quoted in Nigel Hunt, "Jekyll and Hyde, TV revamp of Robert Louis Stevenson classic, debuts on CBC-TV" CBC News, Canada:
    He's the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play
* (informal) Whimsical or flamboyant.
    This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.

#### Derived terms

* fun fact
* fun fur
* fun money
* funner, funnest (nonstandard)
* funness
* funnish
* funpost
* no fun at parties
* superfun
* unfun (adjective, noun)
* you must be fun at parties

#### Translations

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### Verb

fun (third-person singular simple present funs, present participle funning, simple past and past participle funned)
* (colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
    Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

#### Translations
### See also

* cheong fun
* chow fun
* hor fun
* mei fun

### References

* ↑ “fun”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎ (in Swedish), 1937

### Anagrams

* FNU, NFU, unf

## Chibcha
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /βun/

### Noun

fun
* Alternative form of bun

### References

* Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from English fun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /fœn/
* Rhymes: -œn

### Adjective

fun (invariable)
* (colloquial) fun
    C’était juste pour le fun.It was just for fun.
    Il a l’air fun.It looks fun.

## Galician
### Etymology 1

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fun
* first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

fun
* first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

## Hunsrik
### Alternative forms

* funn (Altenhofen spelling)

### Etymology

From Middle High German von (“from”), from Old High German fon, fona (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fanē (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó (“off”).
Cognate with German vom and Luxembourgish vun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈfun/
* Rhymes: -un
* Syllabification: fun

### Preposition

fun [with dative]
* of; expressing possession
    Das Haus fun de FraaThe house of the woman
* from; used to indicate source or provenance
    Ich sin fun HambeuchI'm from Hamburg.
* from; used to indicate a starting point or initial reference
    Sie schaffe fun heit bis moieThey will work from today to tomorrow.

#### Related terms

* fum
* funanner

### References

* Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “fun”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 61, column 1

## Japanese
### Romanization

fun
* Rōmaji transcription of ふん
* Rōmaji transcription of フン

## Tboli
### Noun

fun
* owner

## Yoruba
### Verb

fún
* give
* choke, squeeze, strangle, throttle
* scatter, strew
* sew

### Preposition

fún
* for, on behalf of