pun

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: pŭn, IPA^(key): /pʌn/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /pʊn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

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(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.

2. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

   We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.

pun (plural puns)

1. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

   Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words

   Hypernym: joke

   Hyponym: antanaclasis

   The pun is the lowest form of wit.

   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 124:

     "Certainly, my home at my uncle's brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears, and Vices, I saw enough. Now do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat."

     Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice anglais.

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (“fen”).

pun (plural puns or pun)

1. (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”).

From Hindi [Term?].

• pund

pun (plural puns)

1. (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
   • 1864, The Regulations of the Bengal Code in Force in September 1862, page 1019:

     Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas. Sheep, goats, &c., 1 pun of cowries each.

• Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “pun”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

• N-up, NPU, UPN, nup

pun

1. because

• puan
• pen (Ragusan dialect)

From Latin pānis, pānem.

pun m

1. (Vegliot) bread

From Proto-Malayic *puhun (compare Malay pohon), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun.

• IPA^(key): [pun]

pun

1. tree (large woody plant)

Inherited from Malay pun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun/, [ˈpun]
• Hyphenation: pun

pun

1. also, too

   Synonym: juga

2. even, though, although, nevertheless

   Synonyms: biar, meski, kendati, saja

3. besides
4. any, every

• “pun” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Inherited from Proto-Philippine *puqun, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *puqun, from Proto-Austronesian *puqun. Compare Tagalog puno, Malay pohon, Indonesian pohon.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun/ [ˈpun]

pun

1. trunk of a tree
2. origin, source

   Synonym: ibat

• pon (informal, pronunciation respelling)

Probably from Proto-Austronesian *pa (“still, first, yet”)

• IPA^(key): [pon]

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• Rhymes: -on
• Hyphenation: pun

pun (Jawi spelling ڤون)

1. also, too

   Synonym: juga

   Adam pun tahu.

   Adam knows too.

2. even

   Adam pun tahu.

   Even Adam knows.

• -pun

• Indonesian: pun
• → Hokkien: 呠 (pún)
• → Teochew: 呠

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

• IPA^(key): [pun]

pun

1. inflection of pune:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

Borrowed from Latin punicus.

pun m (plural puni)

1. Punic, Carthaginian

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *pьlnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pílˀnas, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós.

• IPA^(key): /pûn/

pȕn (Cyrillic spelling пу̏н, definite pȕnī)

1. full, filled
   • 1980s, Max Vincent AKA Miša Mihajlović, “Beogradska Devojka”:

     Tako drska i obesna si ti / ti si puna ljubavi

     You are so arrogant and rude / you are full of love

2. fleshy, plump
3. full, complete
4. occupied (of room)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpun/ [ˈpũn]
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: pun

pun m (uncountable)

1. (onomatopoeia) the sound of discharging a firearm

   Synonym: pum

2. (onomatopoeia, vulgar) the sound of flatulence

• “pun”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024

Sundanese register set
lemes	{{{le}}}
lemes ka sorangan	pun
lemes ka batur	tuang
loma	si
cohag	{{{co}}}

From Old Sundanese pun. Cognate with Old Javanese pun, Javanese ꦥꦸꦤ꧀ (pun).

pun (Sundanese script ᮕᮥᮔ᮪)

1. direct marker placed before names or terms of address of people
2. (lemes) direct marker placed before kinship terms; my

   Synonym: -ing (obsolete)

   pun bojo ― my wife

   pun anak ― my child

   Abdi ka dieu sareng pun bapa ― I'm going here with my father

• Used of someone in a position higher relative to another (usually the addressee), or used out of respect for the addressee.

• "POEN", in Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij