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English
Etymology 1
From Middle English gunne, gonne, from Lady Gunilda, a huge crossbow with a powerful shot, with the second part of the term being of Old Norse origin. It was later used to denote firearms. The name Gunnhildr and its multiple variations are derived from Old Norse gunnr (“battle, war”) + hildr (“battle”), which makes it a pleonasm. In the given context the woman's name means battle maid. See also Hilda, Gunilda, Gunhild, Gunhilda, Gunnhildr.
Pronunciation
Noun
gun (plural guns)
- A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., , →OCLC:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.
- 2018 February 23, Richard Ayoade, The Last Leg, Season 14, Episode 5:
- Well, I've always been progun, you know that. It's... yeah, I think adding more guns into a situation is obviously the way to prevent shooting. I think in a way, if we take the guns away, the shootings may escalate. And I think that's why he's so firm on literally arming everyone. I think if you don't have a gun in your hands... well, let's not find out what that world would be.
Looking for wild meat to fill his family's freezer for the winter, the young man quietly raised up his gun at the approaching deer.
- A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
- A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
- (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
- (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
- (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.21-gun salute
1906, Stanley J[ohn] Weyman, chapter I, in Chippinge Borough, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., →OCLC, page 01:It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. […]. He halted opposite the Privy Gardens, and, with his face turned skywards, listened until the sound of the Tower guns smote again on the ear and dispelled his doubts.
- A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
- Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
zipgun
- A device or tool that projects a substance.
- A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
a price-label gun
- (surfing) A long surfboard designed for surfing big waves (not the same as a longboard, a gun has a pointed nose and is generally a little narrower).
- 2000, Drew Kampion, surfline.com
- by the winter of 1962, the Brewer Surfboards Hawaii gun was the most in-demand big-wave equipment on the North Shore.
- (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
2000, Gary William Flake, The computational beauty of nature:The glider gun on the bottom of the NOT circuit emits a continuous stream of gliders, while the data stream source emits a glider only when there is a value of 1 in the stream […] .
2007 February 23, Frank, “Life on the Edge”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet):It would be especially interesting if someone can find an "airplane gun", which generates airplanes at regular intervals.
2010, Andrew Adamatzky, Game of Life Cellular Automata, page 74:Greene's period-416 2c/5 spaceship gun
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a rifle, shotgun or handgun.
Some said that the cowboy was the fastest gun in the West.
2019 October 31, A. A. Dowd, “Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman”, in AV Club:De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, the real-life South Philly truck driver who moonlighted, over the second half of the 20th century, as a hired gun for the mafia.
- (television) An electron gun.
2012, Brand Fortner, Theodore E. Meyer, Number by Colors, page 202:The problem is figuring out how to get the electrons from the red gun to hit only the red phosphors, the electrons from the blue gun to hit only the blue phosphors, and so on.
- (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
- (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?) (colloquial) An expert.
- (Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
Derived terms
- air gun, airgun, air-gun
- Alekhine's gun
- anti-gun
- Armstrong gun
- Barisal gun
- BB gun
- big gun
- blow from a gun
- blowgun, blow gun
- Bofors gun
- Bren gun
- bum gun
- burp gun
- cap gun, cap-gun
- caulking gun
- cemetery gun
- chain gun
- chase gun
- Chekhov's gun
- chicken gun
- chow gun
- clam gun
- coach gun
- coilgun, coil gun
- Costain gun, costain gun
- Dane gun
- dart gun
- Deer gun
- deluge gun
- drop gun
- eat one's gun
- electric gun
- electron gun
- elephant gun
- evening gun
- fiber gun
- field gun
- finger gun
- flag gun
- flame gun
- flare gun
- flash gun, flashgun
- Gardner gun
- Gatling gun
- Gauss gun
- gene gun
- ghost gun
- give a gun, give it the gun
- glider gun
- glue gun
- go great guns
- gravity gun
- grease gun
- great gun
- gunboat
- gun-brig
- gun-broke
- gun carriage
- guncase
- gun-centric
- gun club
- gun control, gun-control
- gun cotton, guncotton
- gun culture
- gun deck
- gun dog, gundog
- gunfight → gunfighter
- gunfire
- gunflint
- gun for, gun-for-hire
- gun fu, gun-fu
- gun furniture
- gun grabber
- gun-happy
- gun-howitzer
- gun jumping
- gun kata, gun-kata
- gun lap
- gun layer, gun-layer
- gun licence
- gun line
- gun lobby
- gunman
- gun mantlet
- gun metal, gun-metal, gunmetal
- gun money
- gunner, gunnery
- gun nut
- gun paper, gun-paper
- gun pit
- gunplay
- gunpoint
- gunport
- gunpowder, gun powder
- gun range
- gun rights, gun-rights
- gunroom
- gunrunner, gunrunning
- guns and butter
- guns and roses
- guns blazing
- gun shearer
- gunship
- gunshot
- gun show
- gunshy, gun-shy, gun shy
- gunsight
- gunslinger
- gunsmith
- gun sock
- gun-stick
- gun stock, gunstock
- gun time
- gun-toting
- gun-type → gun-type bomb
- gun worm
- gunzel
- handgun
- harpoon gun
- Heaf gun
- heat gun
- hired gun
- hold a gun to someone's head
- hookgun
- Hotchkiss gun
- hot glue gun
- is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me
- jump the gun
- junk gun
- Krupp gun
- laser gun, laser-gun, lasergun
- Lewis gun
- light gun
- light machine gun
- line gun
- lock pick gun
- long gun
- Lyle gun
- machine gun, machine-gun
- magazine gun
- massage gun
- Maxim gun
- minigun, mini-gun
- minute gun
- morning gun
- mountain gun
- mouse gun
- nailgun, nail gun
- needle gun
- net gun
- noon gun
- Nordenfelt gun
- opening gun
- organ gun
- out-gun
- paint gun
- Paixhans gun
- pellet gun
- pen gun
- physics gun
- pick gun
- piercing gun
- pill gun
- pivot gun
- poacher's gun
- popgun, pop gun
- price gun
- pro-gun
- prop gun
- punt gun
- put a gun to someone's head
- quaker gun, Quaker gun
- radar gun
- rail gun, railgun
- railroad gun
- railway gun
- ray gun, ray-gun, raygun
- rivet gun
- Rodman gun
- run and gun, run-and-gun
- scatter gun, scatter-gun
- scrub gun
- shotgun, shot-gun
- six-gun
- slam gun
- sleeve gun
- slum gun
- smoking gun
- snake gun
- snap gun
- snow gun
- son of a gun → son-of-a-gun stew
- space gun
- spear gun
- spike someone's guns
- splatter gun, splatter-gun
- spray gun
- spring gun
- spud gun
- squirt gun
- staple gun
- starting gun
- steam gun
- Sten gun
- stick by/to one's guns
- stun gun
- stutter gun
- submachine gun
- sure as a gun
- swivel gun
- tattoo gun
- temperature gun
- Thompson submachine gun
- time gun, time-gun
- Tommy gun
- top gun
- under the gun
- up-gun
- wall gun
- watch gun
- water gun
- Whitworth gun
- wire gun
- Woolworth gun
- you get more with a kind word and a gun than you do with a kind word alone
- young gun
- zip gun, zipgun
Descendants
Translations
a portable, short weapon, for hand use
- Ainu: テッポ (teppo)
- Albanian: pistoletë (sq) f. armë (sq) f
- Amharic: ጠመንጃ (am) (ṭämänǧa), ሽጉጥ (šəguṭ)
- Arabic: مُسَدَّس m (musaddas), طَبَنْجَة f (ṭabanja), مُسَدَّسَة f (musaddasa)
- Hijazi Arabic: مُسَدَّس m (musaddas)
- Armenian: ատրճանակ (hy) (atrčanak)
- Assamese: বন্দুক (bonduk), হিলৈ (hiloi)
- Azerbaijani: tapança, pistolet (az)
- Banjarese: sinapang
- Belarusian: пістале́т m (pistaljét)
- Bengali: বন্দুক (bn) (bonduk)
- Bikol Central: badil (bcl)
- Breton: arm-tan (br) m, pistolenn (br) f
- Bulgarian: пистоле́т (bg) m (pistolét)
- Burmese: သေနတ် (my) (senat)
- Catalan: pistola (ca) f
- Chechen: тапча class ю (tapča)
- Cherokee: ᎦᎶᏇ (galoque), ᎦᎶᏪ (galowe)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 手槍/手枪 (zh) (shǒuqiāng), 槍/枪 (zh) (qiāng)
- Corsican: pistola f, pistulettu m, pistolettu m
- Czech: pistole (cs) f
- Danish: pistol (da) c, håndvåben n, revolver (da) c
- Dupaningan Agta: palattug
- Dutch: vuurwapen (nl) n, pistool (nl) n
- Esperanto: fusilo, pafilo (eo)
- Finnish: pyssy (fi), pistooli (fi)
- French: pistolet (fr) m
- Georgian: თოფი (ka) (topi)
- German: Pistole (de) f
- Greek: πιστόλι (el) n (pistóli), περίστροφο (el) n (perístrofo)
- Gujarati: બંદૂક (bandūk)
- Hausa: bindiga (ha)
- Hawaiian: pū, waikī (rare)
- Hebrew: אֶקְדָּח (he) m (ekdákh)
- Hindi: बंदूक़ f (bandūq), तमंचा (hi) m (tamañcā), पिस्तौल (hi) f (pistaul)
- Hungarian: pisztoly (hu), (slang) stukker (hu)
- Icelandic: byssa (is) f
- Ido: fusilo (io)
- Indonesian: pistol (id)
- Italian: pistola (it) f
- Japanese: 銃 (ja) (じゅう, jū), 鉄砲 (ja) (てっぽう, teppō), ガン (ja) (gan)
- Jarai: phao
- Kannada: ಕೋವಿ (kn) (kōvi)
- Kazakh: пистолет (pistolet), тапанша (tapanşa)
- Khmer: កាំភ្លើង (km) (kampləəng)
- Kikuyu: mũcinga class 3
- Korean: 총(銃) (ko) (chong), 권총(拳銃) (ko) (gwonchong)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: دەمانچە (demançe)
- Kyrgyz: пистолет (pistolet), тапанча (ky) (tapanca)
- Lao: ປືນ (lo) (pư̄n)
- Latin: (New) sclopetum (la) n
- Latvian: pistole f, revolveris m
- Lingala: bondóki, fataki
- Lithuanian: pistoletas m, revolveris m
- Lü: ᦓᦱᧆ (naad)
- Macedonian: пиштол m (pištol)
- Malay: pistol, bedil (ms)
- Malayalam: തോക്ക് (ml) (tōkkŭ)
- Manchu: ᠮᡳᠶᠣᠣᠴᠠᠨ (miyoocan)
- Maori: pū, pūrākau
- Marathi: बंदूक f (bandūk)
- Minangkabau: badia (min)
- Mon:သေနာတ် (mnw)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: гар буу (gar buu)
- Mongolian: ᠭᠠᠷ
ᠫᠤᠤ (ɣar puu)
- Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh
- Newar: तुपः (tupa:)
- Ngazidja Comorian: ɓunɗuki class 9/10
- Norman: arme f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: håndvåpen n
- Nynorsk: håndvåpen n
- Ojibwe: baashkizigan
- Oromo: qawwee
- Pali: aggināḷi f
- Pashto: تفنګچه f (tofangčá), تمانچه (ps) f (tamānčá), تومانچه (ps) f (tomānčá), توپنچه (ps) f (topančá), توپنګچه f (topangčá), تپانچه (ps) f (tapānčá)
- Persian: تپانچه (fa) (tapânče)
- Plains Cree: ᐹᐢᑭᓯᑲᐣ (pâskisikan)
- Plautdietsch: Flint f
- Polish: pistolet (pl) m inan, rewolwer (pl) m inan
- Portuguese: arma de fogo (pt) f, pistola (pt) f
- Romanian: pistol (ro) n, revolver (ro) n
- Russian: пистоле́т (ru) m (pistolét); (colloquial) ствол (ru) m (stvol), пу́шка (ru) f (púška) (criminal slang), револьве́р (ru) m (revolʹvér) (revolver)
- Scottish Gaelic: dag (gd) m
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: пѝшто̄љ m
- Roman: pìštōlj (sh) m
- Shona: pfuti
- Sicilian: scupetta (scn) f
- Sidamo: qawwe
- Sinhalese: තුවක්කුවක් (tuwakkuwak)
- Slovak: pištoľ f
- Slovene: puška (sl) f
- Spanish: pistola (es) f
- Swahili: bunduki (sw)
- Swedish: pistol (sv)
- Tagalog: baril
- Tajik: пистолет (pistolet), таппонча (tapponča), туфангча (tufangča)
- Tamil: துப்பாக்கி (ta) (tuppākki)
- Tarifit: azidan m
- Telugu: తుపాకీ (tupākī)
- Thai: ปืน (th) (bpʉʉn)
- Tibetan: མེ་མདའ (me mda')
- Tigrinya: ሽጉጥ (šəguṭ)
- Turkish: tabanca (tr)
- Turkmen: pistolet, pistolýet, sapança
- Tuvan: боо (boo)
- Ukrainian: пістоле́т (uk) m (pistolét)
- Urdu: بندوق f (bandūq), تمنچه m (tamanca)
- Uyghur: تاپانچا (tapancha)
- Uzbek: toʻpponcha (uz), pistolet (uz)
- Vietnamese: súng lục (vi), súng sáu (vi), súng ngắn (vi)
- Volapük: gün (vo)
- Walloon: pistolet (wa) m
- Welsh: dryll (cy) m
- White Hmong: phom
- Xhosa: umpu
- Yiddish: ביקס f (biks), פּיסטויל m (pistoyl)
- Zazaki: tıfıng f
- Zhuang: cungq
- ǃXóõ: thòbolò
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a less portable, long weapon
- Armenian: հրացան (hy) (hracʿan)
- Bulgarian: пу́шка (bg) f (púška)
- Buryat: буу (buu)
- Catalan: escopeta f
- Chechen: топ (top)
- Corsican: fucile m
- Czech: puška (cs) f
- Danish: gevær n, bøsse (da) c
- Dolgan: һаа (haa)
- Dutch: vuurwapen (nl) n, geweer (nl) n
- Esperanto: fusilo
- Finnish: kivääri (fi)
- French: fusil (fr) m
- Georgian: ქვემეხი (kvemexi)
- German: Gewehr (de) n
- Greek: τουφέκι (el) n (touféki)
- Hebrew: רוֹבֶה (he) m (rové)
- Hungarian: puska (hu), lőfegyver (hu)
- Icelandic: byssa (is) f
- Ido: fusilo (io)
- Italian: fucile (it) m
- Kalmyk: бу (bu)
- Khakas: мылтых (mıltıx)
- Khmer: កាំភ្លើង (km) (kampləəng)
- Latin: (New) sclopetum (la) n
- Latvian: šautene (lv) f, bise f
- Lithuanian: šautuvas m
- Macedonian: пушка f (puška)
- Malay: senapang, bedil (ms)
- Manchu: ᠮᡳᠶ᠋ᠣᠣᠴᠠᠨ (miyoocan)
- Marathi: बंदूक f (bandūk)
- Minangkabau: sinapang
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: буу (mn) (buu)
- Mongolian: ᠫᠤᠤ (puu), ᠪᠤᠤ (buu)
- Nanai: миоча̄н (miočān)
- Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫh
- Ngazidja Comorian: ɓunɗuki class 9/10
- Norman: arme f
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: gevær n
- Nynorsk: gevær n
- Persian: تفنگ (fa) (tofang)
- Polish: strzelba (pl) f
- Portuguese: fuzil (pt) m, rifle (pt) m
- Romanian: pușcă (ro) f
- Russian: ружьё (ru) n (ružʹjó)
- Scottish Gaelic: gunna f
- Slovak: puška f
- Spanish: escopeta (es) f, rifle (es) m
- Swahili: bunduki (sw) class 9/10
- Swedish: gevär (sv), bössa (sv)
- Thai: ปืน (th) (bpʉʉn)
- Turkish: tüfek (tr)
- Tuvan: боо (boo)
- Vietnamese: súng trường (vi)
- Walloon: fizik (wa) m, carabene f
- Welsh: dryll (cy) m, drylliau (cy) m pl
- Written Oirat: ᡋᡇᡇ᠋
- Yakut: саа (saa)
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military: a cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity
- Afrikaans: kanon
- Arabic: مِدْفَع (ar) m (midfaʕ)
- Breton: kanol (br) m
- Bulgarian: оръ́дие (bg) n (orǎ́die)
- Catalan: canó (ca) m
- Chechen: топ (top)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 火砲/火炮 (zh) (huǒpào), 大砲/大炮 (zh) (dàpào), 砲/炮 (zh) (pào)
- Czech: dělo (cs) n
- Danish: kanon c
- Dutch: kanon (nl) n
- Finnish: tykki (fi)
- French: canon (fr)
- Georgian: ქვემეხი (kvemexi)
- German: Geschütz (de) n, Kanone (de) f
- Greek: κανόνι (el) n (kanóni)
- Hebrew: תּוֹתָח (he) m (totákh)
- Hungarian: ágyú (hu)
- Icelandic: fallbyssa f, skotvopn (is) n
- Ingush: йоккха топ (joqqa top)
- Italian: cannone (it) m
- Japanese: 銃 (ja) (じゅう, jū), 大砲 (ja) (たいほう, taihō)
- Korean: 총(銃) (ko) (chong)
- Latvian: lielgabals m
- Lithuanian: patranka f, pabūklas m, armota f
- Minangkabau: mariam (min)
- Navajo: beeʼeldǫǫhtsoh
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: kanon (no) m
- Nynorsk: kanon m
- Polish: armata (pl) f, działo (pl) n
- Portuguese: canhão (pt) m
- Romanian: tun (ro) n
- Russian: пу́шка (ru) f (púška), ору́дие (ru) n (orúdije)
- Sicilian: scupetta (scn) f
- Slovak: kanón m, delo n
- Slovene: top (sl) m
- Spanish: cañón (es) m
- Swedish: kanon (sv)
- Turkish: top (tr)
- Vietnamese: đại bác (vi)
- Welsh: dryll (cy) m, drylliau (cy) m pl
- Yiddish: האַרמאַט m (harmat)
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military: a cannon with tube length 30 calibers or more
— see also howitzer,
mortar
a long surfboard designed for surfing big waves
Translations to be checked
- Arabic: (please verify) بُنْدُقِيَّة (bunduqiyya)
- French: (please verify) arme à feu (fr) f
- German: (please verify) Geschütz (de), (please verify) Kanone (de)
- Hindi: (please verify) बंदूक (hi) (bandūk)
- Indonesian: (please verify) senapan (id), (please verify) pistol (id)
- Interlingua: (please verify) arma de foco
- Italian: (please verify) arma da fuoco (it) f
- Japanese: (please verify) 銃 (ja) (じゅう, jū), (please verify) 拳銃 (ja) (けんじゅう, kenjū), (please verify) 鉄砲 (ja) (てっぽう, teppō)
- Malayalam: (please verify) തോക്ക് (ml) (tōkkŭ)
- Mandarin: (please verify) 炮 (zh) (pào), (please verify) 槍/枪 (zh), (please verify) 枪 (zh) (qiāng)
- Maori: (please verify) pū
- Marathi: (please verify) बंदूक (bandūk)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: (please verify) skytevåpen (no) n, (please verify) kanon (no) m, (please verify) gevær n, (please verify) pistol (no) m
- Swahili: (please verify) bunduki (sw) class 9/10
- Swedish: (please verify) skjutvapen (sv), (please verify) kanon (sv)
- Telugu: (please verify) తుపాకీ (tupākī)
- Vietnamese: (please verify) súng (vi)
- Yiddish: (please verify) ביקס (biks)
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Verb
gun (third-person singular simple present guns, present participle gunning, simple past and past participle gunned)
- (transitive) To cause to speed up.
- He gunned the engine.
- (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
- We're all gunning for you.
- (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
2023, George Ramsay, Amy Woodyatt, “‘Like a chairlift up Everest’: Once running’s supreme challenge, has the value of a four-minute mile diminished?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name), CNN:Australian John Landy, one of Bannister’s rivals also gunning to break the four-minute barrier, took more than a second off the Briton’s time in Turku, Finland, a few weeks later.
- To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
- He's been gunning for you ever since you embarrassed him at the party.
- To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
- (transitive, intransitive, prison slang) To masturbate while observing and visible to a corrections officer.
2004, Jens Soering, Yoga of Heart:In the cell diagonally across from mine, a prisoner regularly “gunned down” the nurse on her morning rounds. He deliberately masturbated so that she'd see him through the cell door window as he ejaculated.
2010, BNA's Employment Discrimination Report:[…] all inmates participated in such conduct, and […] "the inmates gunned only female staff, not the all-male security staff," he said.
Derived terms
Translations
Etymology 2
Related to ganef.
Noun
gun (plural guns)
- (obsolete, slang) A magsman or street thief.
1863, Blanchard Jerrold, Signals of Distress in Refuges and Homes of Charity (etc.), page 2:To discover […] how the honest poor are compelled to hob-and-nob with the “shoful pitcher” and the “gun,” it is necessary to visit the vast nursery-grounds of crime.
References
- John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary
Etymology 3
From gunna, from gonna, from going to.
Verb
gun
- Nonstandard spelling of going to.
- I'm gun go get my coat from da closet.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 JP 1-02. Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms, 8 November 2010 (As Amended Through 15 March 2012), p.142. (Searchable online version)
Anagrams
Bissa
Noun
gun
- night
Cornish
Noun
gun f (plural gonyow)
- plain
Dongxiang
Etymology
From Proto-Mongolic *gün, compare Mongolian гүн (gün).
Pronunciation
Adjective
gun
- deep
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
gun
- inflection of gunnen:
- first-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Japanese
Romanization
gun
- Rōmaji transcription of ぐん
Jingpho
Etymology
Borrowed from Burmese ကုန် (kun).
Noun
gun
- goods for sale
References
- Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128
Mandarin
Romanization
gun
- Nonstandard spelling of gǔn.
- Nonstandard spelling of gùn.
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Manx
Noun
gun m (genitive singular gunney, plural gunnaghyn)
- Alternative form of gunn
Middle English
Noun
gun
- Alternative form of gunne
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
Noun
gun m
- testicle, ball, bollock, egg, nut, orchis, testis
Scottish Gaelic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (before a broad consonant or a, o, u) /kən̪ˠ/, (before a slender consonant or e, i) /kəɲ/
Etymology 1
From Old Irish co.
Alternative forms
Conjunction
gun
- that
- an t-amadan sin gun do thagh thu ― that fool that you voted for
- am fear gum pòs aig deireadh na mìosa ― the man that will marry at the end of the month
- an taigh gu bheil aice ― the house that she has
Etymology 2
From Old Irish cen.
Preposition
gun (+ nominative, triggers lenition except before d, t, n or s)
- without
- gun teagamh ― without a doubt
- gun chàr ― without a car
- used to negate a verbal noun
- thuirt mi ris gun a dhol a-mach ― I told him not to go out
Synonyms
Etymology 3
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Conjunction
gun (triggers lenition)
- neither...nor
- 1911 (Birlinn Limited), Edward Dwelly: The Illustrated Gaelic-English Dictionary:
- Duine gun mhath gun chron, is motha a chron na a mhath. ― A man that's neither good nor ill is more ill than good.
Yoruba
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
gùn
- to be long (usually along a horizontal axis)
Usage notes
- gun before a direct object
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwṵ̀ (“to ascend”) or Proto-Yoruboid *gũ̀, cognate with Igala gwú (“to climb, to mate”)
Pronunciation
Verb
gùn
- (intransitive) to climb, to ascend something
- to be climbed, to be mounted
- (intransitive, transitive) to ride or mount (someone or something)
- ó gun kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ ― She mounted a donkey
- (idiomatic, intransitive) to copulate, to mate
- Synonym: dó
- (idiomatic) to be possessed; (in particular) to be possessed by the spirit of an orisha
- ó ń hùwà bí ẹni tí Ṣàngó ń gùn ― He is behaving like someone that Sango is possessing
Usage notes
- gun before a direct object
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwṵ̀ (“to sweat”), cognate with Igala gwù (“to sweat”), see *(ò)úgwṵ̀ (“sweat”), úgwù (“sweat”), and òógùn (“sweat, perspiration”)
Pronunciation
Verb
gùn
- (intransitive) to sweat
- Synonym: làágùn
Derived terms
Etymology 4
Pronunciation
Verb
gun
- to be angular in shape, to form an angle
Derived terms
Etymology 5
Cognates with Itsekiri gún
Pronunciation
Verb
gún
- to pound
- Jùmọ̀kẹ́ ò kí ń gún iyán dáadáa, ẹ̀bà nìkan ló lè tẹ̀. ― Jumoke doesn't pound yam well, she can only make eba.
Derived terms
Etymology 6
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Verb
gún
- to pierce; to jab; to penetrate; to stab
- Dókítà gún mi lábẹ́rẹ́. ― The doctor injected me with a needle.
- Igi gogoro máà gún mi lójú; àtòkèèrè la ti ń wò ó ― So that we may not be poked in the eye by the tall, pointed tree, one must watch it from afar.
Derived terms
Etymology 7
Pronunciation
Verb
gún
- to be straight; to straighten
- to be well arranged; to be in order
- Àárín tọkọtaya gún régé. ― There is peace between the couple. (literally, “Between the couple is in proper alignment.”)
- to shrug one's shoulders
- Mo gún èjìká. ― I shrugged my shoulders.
Etymology 8
Pronunciation
Verb
gún
- to curse
- Synonym: gégùn-ún
Derived terms