paun

From Middle Breton paun, from Proto-Brythonic *pawʉn (compare Old Cornish, Middle Welsh, and Welsh paun), from Latin pāvō.

paun m (plural pauned)

1. peacock

paun

1. pound sterling, The currency of the United Kingdom

• IPA^(key): [pau̯n], [pa.on]
• Rhymes: -au̯n, -un
• Hyphenation: pa‧un

Borrowed from English pound, from Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).

paun (Jawi spelling ڤاءون)

1. A pound:
   1. The pound sterling; the currency of the United Kingdom.
   2. The currency of some countries (Sudan, Syria, and Egypt).
   3. A unit of mass equal to 16 ounces or 0.4536 kilograms.
   4. Jewellery (bracelets, lockets, etc.) made out of gold that are shaped like coins.

Borrowed from English pound, from Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English pund (“an enclosure”).

paun (Jawi spelling ڤاءون, plural paun-paun)

1. A pound; a place for confining animals (buffaloes, cows, etc.) that roam around a lot.

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

paun

1. alternative form of pown (“pawn”)

• pàn (Sutsilvan)
• pang (Surmiran)
• pan (Vallader)

From Latin pānis, pānem.

paun m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter) bread

paun m (plural pauns)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter) loaf of bread

Borrowed from Italian pavone, from Latin pāvō, pāvōnem. Cf. also Romanian păun.

• IPA^(key): /pâuːn/
• Hyphenation: pa‧un

pȁūn m anim (Cyrillic spelling па̏ӯн)

1. peacock

• indijski paun
• zeleni paun

• “paun”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Borrowed from Portuguese pão.

paun

1. bread

• “paun”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

From Middle Welsh paun (disyllabic), from Proto-Brythonic *pawʉn (compare Old Cornish, Middle Breton, and Breton paun), from Latin pāvō.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /paɨ̯n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pai̯n/

paun m (plural peunod, feminine peunes)

1. peacock

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “paun”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies