# poon
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /puːn/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːn

### Etymology 1

Compare Tamil புன்னை (puṉṉai), Malayalam പുന്ന (punna), names for Calophyllum inophyllum. Doublet of punnai.

#### Noun

poon (plural poons)
* Any of several East Indian trees of the genus Calophyllum, yielding a light, hard wood used for masts, spars, etc. [from 1690s]

### Etymology 2

Clipping of poontang.

#### Noun

poon (countable and uncountable, plural poons)
* (US, vulgar, slang) The vagina and vulva; or intercourse with a woman.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:vulva, Thesaurus:copulation
    I'm gonna get me some poon at this party.
* (colloquial) A wimp; a pussy.
    Synonyms: sissy, wuss; see also Thesaurus:milksop

### See also

* poon up (probably etymologically unrelated)
* khao poon (etymologically unrelated)

### Further reading

* Calophyllum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Calophyllum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Anagrams

* no-op

## Bikol Central
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /poˈʔon/ [poˈʔon̪]
* Hyphenation: po‧on

### Noun

pòon (Basahan spelling ᜉᜓᜂᜈ᜔)
* Misspelling of puon.

## Esperanto
### Noun

poon
* accusative singular of poo

## Higaonon
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *puqun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun. Akin to Malay pohon.

### Noun

poon
* stem

## Middle English
### Noun

poon
* Alternative form of pown (“peacock”)

## Old French
### Noun

poon oblique singular, m (oblique plural poons, nominative singular poons, nominative plural poon)
* Alternative form of peon

## Tagalog
### Alternative forms

* puon, puhon

### Etymology

Possibly from either of the following:
* From Proto-Philippine *puqun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun. Compare Ilocano puon (“tree; source”), Kapampangan pun (“tree; leader”), Bikol Central puon (“tree; leader”), Western Subanon poon (“leader”), and its possible metathesis and doublet puno (“tree; leader”). The derived terms involving familial ties may also possibly be related to the meaning “tree; source”. See also puhunan.
* From contraction of panginoon.

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Tagalog)
** IPA: /poˈʔon/ [poˈʔon̪]
*** Rhymes: -on
** IPA: /ˈpoʔon/ [ˈpoː.ʔon̪] (archaic)
*** Rhymes: -oʔon
* Syllabification: po‧on

### Noun

poón (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜂᜈ᜔)
* lord; master
    Synonyms: amo, apo, panginoon
* image of a saint
    Synonyms: santo, rebulto, anito

#### Derived terms

* amang poon
* amba poon
* inang poon
* inda poon
* poonin
* pumoon

#### See also

* opo
* po
* senyor

### Further reading

* “poon”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024
* “poon”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018
* Serrano-Laktaw, Pedro (1914) Diccionario tagálog-hispano, Ateneo de Manila, page 1104.
* Noceda, Fr. Juan José de, Sanlucar, Fr. Pedro de (1860) Vocabulario de la lengua tagala, compuesto por varios religiosos doctos y graves‎ (in Spanish), Manila: Ramirez y Giraudier
* Santos, Fr. Domingo de los (1835) Tomas Oliva, editor, Vocabulario de la lengua tagala: primera, y segunda parte.‎ (in Spanish), La imprenta nueva de D. Jose Maria Dayot
* San Buena Ventura, Fr. Pedro de (1613) Juan de Silva, editor, Vocabulario de lengua tagala: El romance castellano puesto primero‎, La Noble Villa de Pila, page 551: “Señor) Poon (pp) palabrilla q̃ vſan reſpõdiendo, oo poõ, ſi ſeñor, aba poon (ſaludando) pues ſeñor.”
* Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*puqun”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI