gun

gun

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war. The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle".

Pronunciation

  • enPR: gŭn, IPA(key): /ɡʌn/
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /ɡʊn/
  • Rhymes: -ʌn

Noun

gun (plural guns)

  1. A device for projecting a hard object very forcefully; a firearm or cannon.
    • 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.
    1. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer.
    2. A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun.
    3. (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity.
    4. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. See also: howitzer; mortar.
    5. (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.21-gun salute
  2. A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm.
    1. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube.
    2. A device or tool that projects a substance.
    3. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it.
  3. (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.
  4. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns.
  5. (colloquial, metonymically) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particuarly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun.
  6. (television) An electron gun.
  7. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps.
  8. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind.
  9. (Australia, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, or cool.
Derived terms
Related terms
Descendants
  • Sranan Tongo: gon
Translations

Verb

gun (third-person singular simple present guns, present participle gunning, simple past and past participle gunned)

  1. (transitive) To cause to speed up.
  2. (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause).
  3. (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort.
  4. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for.
  5. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning.
  6. (transitive, intransitive, US, prison slang, of a male prisoner) Synonym of gun down (“to masturbate while making sustained eye contact with someone — typically a female prison officer — as a form of intimidation”).
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

Related to ganef.

Noun

gun (plural guns)

  1. (obsolete, slang) A magsman or street thief.
References
  • John Camden Hotten (1873) The Slang Dictionary

Etymology 3

From gunna, from gonna, from going to.

Verb

gun

  1. Nonstandard spelling of going to.

References

Anagrams

  • Ung, gnu, NGU, GNU, UNG, nug, Ngu, NGu

Bissa

Noun

gun

  1. night

Cornish

Noun

gun f (plural gonyow)

  1. plain

Dongxiang

Etymology

From Proto-Mongolic *gün, compare Mongolian гүн (gün).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kuŋ/

Adjective

gun

  1. deep

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɣʏn/
  • Hyphenation: gun
  • Rhymes: -ʏn
  • Homophone: Gun

Verb

gun

  1. inflection of gunnen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
    3. imperative

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡun/, [ˈɡun]
  • Rhymes: -ɡʊn
  • Hyphenation: gun

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦸꦤ꧀ (gun).

Noun

gun

  1. loom
    Synonym: serit

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 郡(ぐん) (gun, “county, district”). Romanised according modified Kunrei-shiki romanization.

Noun

gun

  1. (historical, 1942-1945) Synonym of kewedanaan

Further reading

  • “gun” 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.

Japanese

Romanization

gun

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぐん

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ကုန် (kun). Cognate with Shan ၵုၼ်ႇ (kùn).

Noun

gun

  1. goods for sale

References

  • Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎[3], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

Mandarin

Romanization

gun

  1. Nonstandard spelling of gǔn.
  2. 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)

  1. Alternative form of gunn

Middle English

Noun

gun

  1. Alternative form of gunne

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʊn

Noun

gun m

  1. 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

  • gu (before bheil)
  • gum (before b, p, m, f)

Conjunction

gun

  1. 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)

  1. without
    gun teagamh ― without a doubt
    gun chàr ― without a car
  2. used to negate a verbal noun
    thuirt mi ris gun a dhol a-mach ― I told him not to go out
Synonyms
  • às aonais

Etymology 3

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Conjunction

gun (triggers lenition)

  1. 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

  • IPA(key): /ɡũ̀/

Verb

gùn

  1. to be long (usually along a horizontal axis)
Usage notes
  • gun before a direct object
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Possibly from Proto-Yoruboid *gwũ̀ (“to ascend”) or Proto-Yoruboid *gũ̀, cognate with Igala gwú (“to climb, to mate”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡũ̀/

Verb

gùn

  1. (intransitive) to climb, to ascend something
  2. to be climbed, to be mounted
  3. (intransitive, transitive) to ride or mount (someone or something)
    ó gun kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ ― She mounted a donkey
  4. (idiomatic, intransitive) to copulate, to mate
    Synonym: dó
  5. (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 *gwũ̀ (“to sweat”), cognate with Igala gwù (“to sweat”), see *(ò)úgwũ̀ (“sweat”), úgwù (“sweat”), and òógùn (“sweat, perspiration”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡũ̀/

Verb

gùn

  1. (intransitive) to sweat
    Synonym: làágùn
Derived terms
  • òógùn (“sweat”)

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡũ̄/

Verb

gun

  1. to be angular in shape, to form an angle
Derived terms
  • igun (“corner, angle”)
  • orígun

Etymology 5

Cognates with Itsekiri gún

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡṹ/

Verb

gún

  1. 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

  • gán (Ikalẹ)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡṹ/

Verb

gún

  1. 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
  • ẹ̀gún (“thorn”)

Etymology 7

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡṹ/

Verb

gún

  1. to be straight; to straighten
  2. 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.”)
  3. to shrug one's shoulders
    Mo gún èjìká. ― I shrugged my shoulders.

Etymology 8

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡṹ/

Verb

gún

  1. to curse
    Synonym: gégùn-ún
Derived terms

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