# bun
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bʌn/
** Audio (General Australian):(file)
* (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /bʊn/
* Rhymes: -ʌn

### Etymology 1

From Middle English bunne (“wheat cake, bun”), from Anglo-Norman bugne (“bump on the head; fritter”), from Old French bugne (hence French beignet), from Frankish *bungjo (“little clump”), diminutive of *bungu (“lump, clump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“clump, lump, heap, crowd”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, dense, fat”). Cognate with Dutch bonk (“clump, clot, cluster of fruits”). More at bunch.

#### Alternative forms

* bunn (archaic)

#### Noun

bun (plural buns)
* Senses referring to baked goods.
** A small bread roll that is sweetened or spiced.
    Coordinate term: cake
** A bread roll that is served with a savoury filling such as a hamburger or hot dog.
** (Northern England, especially Northumbria) Any bread roll.
    Coordinate term: cake
** (Northern England, Ireland) A cupcake.
    Coordinate term: cake
* A roll of hair worn at the back of the head.
    Synonym: hair bun
    Hyponyms: French roll; man-bun
    loose bun;   messy bun;   tight bun
** 2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations, page 154:The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
* (British, slang) A drunken spree.
* (Internet slang) A newbie.
* (Canada, US, slang, chiefly in the plural) A buttock.
    nice buns;   tight buns
* (slang) The vagina.
** 1996, Richard Sandomir, Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless‎, page 5:How 'bout I put my hot dog in your bun?
** 2015, Rachelle Ayala, Whole Latte Love‎, page 169:Wait. I can touch your boobs, stick my wiener in your bun, but I can't kiss you?
** 2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds, Empire season 5 episode 13
    I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in your bun.

##### Derived terms

(hairstyle): bun drop, Princess Leia bun, man-bun
* bao bun
* Bath bun
* biscuit bun
* black bun
* Boston bun
* bun fight
* bun-fight
* bunhead
* bun-headed
* bun in the oven
* bunless
* bunlike
* bunny
* bun stock
* burger bun
* Burlington bun
* Chelsea bun
* chow mein bun
* cinnamon bun
* cop the bun
* couldn't organise a bun fight in a bakery
* cream bun
* currant bun
* finger bun
* fun in a bun
* fun on a bun
* have a bun in the oven
* honey bun
* honeybun
* hot cross bun
* hot dog bun
* Kitchener bun
* man bun
* occipital bun
* penny bun
* pineapple bun
* rockbun
* rock bun
* sticky bun

##### Translations
#### Verb

bun (third-person singular simple present buns, present participle bunning, simple past and past participle bunned)
* (transitive) To form (the hair) into a bun.
** 2014, A. A. Garrison, The Long Short Story: Novellas, page 39:Bunning her hair, she left her childhood bedroom for the hall.

#### Further reading

* Bun (bread roll) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Bun (hairstyle) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

Probably from Scots bun (“tail of a rabbit or hare”), which is probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”).

#### Noun

bun (plural buns)
* Clipping of bunny: a rabbit. (sometimes reduplicated.)
    She brought home two new buns to join the menagerie!
    C'm'ere and get some hay, you little bun-bun!
* (dialect, archaic, nonclipped) A bunny: a rabbit.
* (dialect, archaic) A squirrel.
* (dialect, archaic) The scut or tail of a hare.
* (dialect, archaic) A dry stalk.

##### Derived terms

* sea-bun

### Etymology 3

Caribbean pronunciation of burn.

#### Verb

bun (third-person singular simple present buns, present participle bunning, simple past and past participle bunned)
* (Caribbean, MLE and MTE, slang) To smoke cannabis.
* (MLE, African-American Vernacular, slang) To shoot.
* (MLE, slang) To forget.
** 2004, MC Forcer, guest on Lethal Bizzle, "Pow!"
    Don't care about your crew, bun them any day
** 2011, Jme, Mike Lowery:Some man acting dumb, think's he's a gun-man, wanna bring me drama. How you gonna bun me?
** 2017, “Fire in the Booth”, performed by Taze, reused in ”Usual Suspects”:Look, come round, come round gunning, I still look try to bun him Don't chat on the net ’bout bunnin, oh my God why the fuck you runnin?
** 2018, “Slatt Season”, in Sorry For The Get Off‎, performed by Drego & Beno, track 15:The K in the back, the glock in the front It’s one in the head, you know how we bun

#### Noun

bun (plural buns)
* (Caribbean and MLE, slang) marijuana cigarette, joint
** 2018, “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:Man say that they spray the fire I fuck that shit, I drop the bun

### Etymology 4

From the Revised Romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (fèn, “fen”). Doublet of fen.

#### Alternative forms

* p'un, pun

#### Noun

bun (plural buns or bun)
* A Korean unit of length equivalent to about 0.3 cm.

### References

* ↑ Eric Partridge (1966), Origins: A short etymological dictionary of modern English. New York: Greenwich House, →ISBN, p. 64.

### Anagrams

* nub

## Afar
### Alternative forms

* búun (Northern Afar)
* búna, buná (Southern Afar)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بُنّ (bunn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈbun/ [ˈbʊn]
* Hyphenation: bun

### Noun

bún m (plural buunitté f)
* (Northern Afar) coffee

#### Declension

absolutive
bún
predicative
búunu
subjective
bún
genitive
buntí
Postpositioned forms
l-case
búunul
k-case
búunuk
t-case
búunut
h-case
búunuh :

### References

* E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “bun”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN

## Albanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Albanian *bhunā. Compare Illyrian *bounon. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be wake, keep watch”).

### Noun

bun m (plural bune, definite buni, definite plural bunet)
* hut (of mountain shepherds), chalet, fenced area (for cattle)
    Synonyms: kasolle, kolibe

#### Related terms

* buj
* bujtinë

### Further reading

* “bun”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
* FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎, 1980

## Aromanian
### Alternative forms

* bunu

### Etymology

From Latin bonus. Compare Daco-Romanian bun.

### Adjective

bun m (feminine bunã, plural bunj, feminine plural buni or bune)
* good

#### Derived terms

* bunuescu
* bunãtati
* mbunedzu
* nibun

#### Related terms

* ghini

## Chibcha
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡun/

### Noun

bun
* bread, bun

### References

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

## Dalmatian
### Etymology

From Latin bonus.

### Adjective

bun m (feminine buna)
* good

## Girirra
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic بُنّ (bunn).

### Noun

bun
* coffee

## Irish
### Etymology

From Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

### Pronunciation

* (Munster, Connacht) IPA: /bˠun̪ˠ/
* (Aran) IPA: /bˠun/, /bˠɞn/
* (Ulster) IPA: /bˠʌnˠ/, /bˠʌn̪ˠ/

### Noun

bun m (genitive singular buin, nominative plural bunanna)
* base, bottom
* stump
* lower end
* basic provision
* settled spell (of weather)
* source

#### Declension

bare forms
singular
plural
nominative
bun
bunanna
vocative
a bhuin
a bhunanna
genitive
buin
bunanna
dative
bun
bunanna
forms with the definite article
singular
plural
nominative
an bun
na bunanna
genitive
an bhuin
na mbunanna
dative
leis an mbun don bhun
leis na bunanna :

#### Synonyms

* stoc

#### Derived terms

* ar bun (“established”)
* bun na cluaise (“earlobe”)
* bun ribe (“carbuncle”)
* bun- (“basic”)
* bunaigh (“establish”)
* bunaonad (“base unit”)
* bunoscionn (“upside down”)
* bunú (“foundation”)
* bunús (“basis”)
* de bhun (“in pursuance of”)
* de bhun tola (“willingly”)
* faoi bhun (“beneath”)
* i mbun (“attending to”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
* ↑ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, § 166, page 85
* ↑ Finck, F. N. (1899) Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page 58
* ↑ Quiggin, E. C. (1906) A Dialect of Donegal, Cambridge University Press, § 203, page 78

### Further reading

* de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959) “bun”, in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm
* “bun”, in New English-Irish Dictionary, Foras na Gaeilge, 2013-2025
* Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “bun”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

## Japanese
### Romanization

bun
* Rōmaji transcription of ぶん

## Ligurian
### Etymology

From Latin bonus.

### Adjective

bun
* good

## Megleno-Romanian
### Etymology

From Latin bonus. Compare Aromanian bun, Romanian bun.

### Adjective

bun
* good

#### Antonyms

* rǫu

#### See also

* bini

## Middle English
### Adjective

bun
* Alternative form of boun

## Old French
### Adjective

bun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bune)
* (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of bon

#### Declension
## Old Irish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bun/

### Noun

bun m (genitive bona, nominative plural bonai)
* base
* bottom
* butt
* end

#### Inflection

* $^H$ = triggers aspiration
* $^L$ = triggers lenition
* $^N$ = triggers nasalization

#### Descendants

* Irish: bun
* Manx: bun
* Scottish Gaelic: bun

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* ↑ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 71

### Further reading

* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bun/
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin bonus, from Old Latin duenos, later duonus, from Proto-Italic *dwenos. Doublet of bon, bonă, and bonus.

#### Adjective

bun m or n (feminine singular bună, masculine plural buni, feminine and neuter plural bune)
* good
    Antonym: rău
    E un om bun, crede-mă. ― He is a good man, trust me.
    Sunt bun la fotbal. ― I am good at football.

##### Derived terms

* îmbuna
* nebun
* răzbuna

##### Related terms

* bunătate

#### Noun

bun n (plural bunuri)
* good, asset, possession

##### Declension
### Etymology 2

Either from the above word or from a Vulgar Latin *avunus, ultimately from the same Proto-Indo-European root as avus. (Compare the diminutive avunculus, avonculus), probably influenced by or confused with bonus. Compare also Friulian von (“grandfather”), Calabrian and Piedmontese bona (“grandmother”).

#### Noun

bun m (plural buni, feminine equivalent bună)
* (uncommon) grandfather
    Synonym: bunic

##### Derived terms

* bună
* bunic, bunică

##### References

* ↑ Romanian Explanatory Dictionary

## Scottish Gaelic
### Etymology

From Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus. Cognate with Welsh bôn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pun/

### Noun

bun m (genitive singular buna or buin, plural buin or bunan)
* bottom, base, foundation
* butt, stub

#### Derived terms

* bun-os-cionn (“upside down”)
* bun-reachd (“constitution”) (politics)
* bun-sgoil (“primary school”)
* bun-stòr (“primary source”)
* dèan bun no bàrr (“make head or tail”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* Edward Dwelly (1911) “bun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
* Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “1 bun”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

## Somali
### Noun

bun ?
* coffee

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese bom.

### Adjective

bun
* good

### Adverb

bun
* very, rather

## Sumerian
### Romanization

bun
* Romanization of 𒇌 (bun)

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English bone.

### Noun

bun
* (anatomy) bone
** 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:21:Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpela bun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap.→New International Version translation

## Turkish
### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish بوك (buñ), Proto-Turkic *buŋ. Cognate with Kazakh мұң (mūñ).

### Noun

bun
* distress

#### Derived terms

* bunak
* bunalım
* bunalımlı
* bunalmak
* bunaltı
* bunaltmak
* bunamak
* bunayış
* bungun
* bunlu
* bunluk
* bunmak
* bunsuz

## Yoruba
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /bũ̀/

### Verb

bùn
* (transitive) to dash, to donate, to give away
    ó bùn mi ní owó ― He gave me money
* (transitive) to gift, bless, or endow someone
* (intransitive) to be gifted, endowed, or blessed with something

#### Usage notes

* Sense 1 is a verbal element that subcategorizes an NP-object (receiver) + ní + NP phrase
* bun before a direct object

#### Derived terms

* bùnlẹ́bùn (“to endow someone with a gift”)
* bùnlọ́mọ (“to be blessed with a child”)
* Ẹ̀bùn (“a Yoruba given name”)
* ẹ̀bùn (“gift”)
* ìbùn