FromMiddle English bunne ( “ wheat cake, bun ” ) , fromAnglo-Norman bugne ( “ bump on the head; fritter ” ) , fromOld French bugne (henceFrench beignet ), fromFrankish *bungjo ( “ little clump ” ) , diminutive of*bungu ( “ lump, clump ” ) , fromProto-Germanic *bungô ,*bunkô ( “ clump, lump, heap, crowd ” ) , fromProto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- ( “ thick, dense, fat ” ) . Cognate withDutch bonk ( “ clump, clot, cluster of fruits ” ) . More atbunch .
bun (plural buns )
Senses referring to baked goods. A smallbread roll that issweetened orspiced .Coordinate term: cake A bread roll that is served with asavoury filling such as ahamburger orhot dog . ( Northern England , especially Northumbria ) Any bread roll.Coordinate term: cake ( Northern England , Ireland ) Acupcake .Coordinate term: cake A roll ofhair worn at the back of thehead .Synonym: hair bun Hyponyms: French roll ;man-bun loosebun ; messybun ; tightbun
2021 , Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach,Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations , page154 :The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails,buns , chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
( British , slang ) A drunkenspree .( Internet slang ) Anewbie .( Canada ,US , slang , chiefly in theplural ) Abuttock .nicebuns ; tightbuns
( slang ) Thevagina .1996 , Richard Sandomir,Life for Real Dummies: A Reference for the Totally Clueless [1] , page 5:How 'bout I put my hot dog in yourbun ?
2015 , Rachelle Ayala,Whole Latte Love [2] , page169 :Wait. I can touch your boobs, stick my wiener in yourbun , but I can't kiss you?
2019 Hot Blood, Hot Thoughts, Hot Deeds ,Empire season 5 episode 13I'm just saying, you being a mama, it's time to clear the cobwebs. You know what I'm saying? Put a banana in the monkey. You know, hot dog in yourbun . ( hairstyle ) : bun drop ,Princess Leia bun ,man-bun
mostly other "bun" meanings
a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced
Afrikaans:bolletjie ,broodrolletjie Albanian:simite (sq) f Arabic:كَعْكَة f ( kaʕka ) Egyptian Arabic:كحكة f ( kaḥka ) Armenian:բուլկի (hy) ( bulki ) Basque:opil Belarusian:бу́лачка f ( búlačka ) ,бу́лка f ( búlka ) ,са́йка f ( sájka ) Bulgarian:ки́фла f ( kífla ) ,сими́д m ( simíd ) Catalan:panellet (ca) m ,pasta (ca) m ,brioix m ,llesca (ca) m Chinese:Dungan:бозы ( bozɨ ) (包子 ) Hokkien:包仔 (zh-min-nan) ( pau-á ) ,麭 / 𮮆 ( pháng ) ( western bun ) Mandarin:小圓麵包 / 小圆面包 ( xiǎo yuán miànbāo ) ,饅頭 / 馒头 (zh) ( mántóu ) ,饃 / 馍 (zh) ( mó ) ,包子 (zh) ( bāozi ) ,小麵包 / 小面包 (zh) ( xiǎomiànbāo ) Cornish:torthell f Czech:žemle (cs) f Dalmatian:pizaraul ,pizariaul Danish:bolle (da) c Dutch:bolletje (nl) n ,broodje (nl) n ,bol (nl) m Esperanto:bulko (eo) Estonian:kukkel Faroese:bolli m Finnish:pulla (fi) French:petit pain (fr) m Galician:bolo m ,penla (gl) f ,poia f ,petada (gl) f ,cornecho m Georgian:ფუნთუშა ( puntuša ) German:Brötchen (de) n ,Hefestück n ,Weck (de) m ( Southern Germany ) ,Teilchen (de) n ( Western Germany ) ,Semmel (de) f ( regional ) Hebrew:לחמנייה \ לַחְמָנִיָּה (he) f ( lakhmaniyá ) Hindi:रोटी (hi) ( roṭī ) ,छोटी मीठी ब्रेड ( choṭī mīṭhī breḍ ) Hungarian:zsemle (hu) Icelandic:bolla f Indonesian:please add this translation if you can Irish:borróg f ,pocaid f Italian:panino (it) m ,pagnotta (it) f ,rosetta f ,sfilatino (it) m ,michetta f Japanese:バン (ja) ( ban ) ,ロールパン (ja) ( rōrupan ) Korean:흰 빵 ( huin ppang ) ,롤빵 ( rolppang ) Latvian:maizīte f ,bulciņa f Lithuanian:bandelė f ,ragelis m Macedonian:земичка f ( zemička ) ,лепче n ( lepče ) Manx:bunnag f ,bonnag f Navajo:bááh nímazí ,bááh nímazí ʼałtsʼáálgizhígíí ( split bun, hamburger bun ) Norman:ban'se f ( Jersey ) Norwegian:Bokmål:bolle (no) m Nynorsk:bolle m Ottoman Turkish:چورك ( çörek ) Persian:گرده (fa) ( gerde ) ,بولکی ( bulki ) Polish:drożdżówka (pl) f ,bułka (pl) f ,kołaczyk m ( regional ) Portuguese:pãozinho (doce ) m Romanian:chiflă (ro) f Russian:бу́лочка (ru) f ( búločka ) ,бу́лка (ru) f ( búlka ) ,плю́шка (ru) f ( pljúška ) ( sweet ) ,са́йка (ru) f ( sájka ) Scottish Gaelic:bonnach m Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:же̏мља f ,жѐмичка f ,зѐмичка f Roman:žȅmlja (sh) f ,žèmička (sh) f ,zèmička (sh) f Silesian:żymła f Slovak:žemľa f Slovene:žemlja f ,žemljica f Spanish:bollo (es) m ,panecillo m ,bolillo m ,bolla (es) f ,gallofa (es) f ,mollete (es) m ,pan mollete m Swedish:bulle (sv) c Tamil:பொங்கியப்பம் (ta) ( poṅkiyappam ) Tatar:күмәч (tt) ( kümäç ) Turkish:çörek (tr) ,hamburger ekmeği Ukrainian:бу́лка (uk) f ( búlka ) ,бу́лочка (uk) f ( búločka ) ,са́йка f ( sájka ) Volapük:bodül Yiddish:בולקע f ( bulke ) ,זעמל m ( zeml )
a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head
Afrikaans:bolla Arabic:Egyptian Arabic:كحكة f ( kaḥka ) Assamese:খোঁপা ( khü̃pa ) Basque:motots Belarusian:пучо́к m ( pučók ) Bulgarian:кок m ( kok ) Catalan:monyo f ,trossa (ca) f Chinese:Mandarin:髮髻 / 发髻 (zh) ( fàjì ) ,髻 (zh) ( jì ) Cornish:torthell f Dutch:knot (nl) m Esperanto:hartubero Finnish:nuttura (fi) French:chignon (fr) m Galician:caramiñola f ,chicho m ,moucha f ,caroucho m ,rodela f ,rodo (gl) m German:Knoten (de) m ,Haarknoten (de) m Greek:κότσος (el) m ( kótsos ) Hindi:please add this translation if you can : Hungarian:konty (hu) Ido:chiniono (io) Ingrian:tuppu ,muna Irish:cocán m Italian:crocchia (it) f Japanese:髷 (ja) ( まげ, mage ) ,( Japanese style, from Meiji era ) 束髪 (ja) ( そくはつ, sokuhatsu ) ,お団子 (ja) ( おだんご, odango ) ,シニヨン ( shiniyon ) Macedonian:пунџа f ( pundža ) Manx:doss m Maori:pūtiki Navajo:tsiiyééł ,tsiiyéél Norman:chîngnon m ( Jersey ) Polish:kok (pl) m Portuguese:coque (pt) m Romani:kilka f Russian:пучо́к (ru) m ( pučók ) ,у́зел (ru) m ( úzel ) ,шиньо́н (ru) m ( šinʹón ) Slovak:drdol (sk) m Spanish:rodete (es) m ,moño (es) m ,chongo (es) m ( Esp., Guat., Mex. ) Telugu:సిగ (te) ( siga ) Turkish:topuz (tr) Ukrainian:пучо́к m ( pučók ) Yiddish:קאָקס m ( koks )
bun (third-person singular simple present buns ,present participle bunning ,simple past and past participle bunned )
( transitive ) To form (the hair) into a bun.2014 , A. A. Garrison,The Long Short Story: Novellas , page39 :Bunning her hair, she left her childhood bedroom for the hall.
Probably fromScots bun ( “ tail of a rabbit or hare ” ) , which is probably fromScottish Gaelic bun ( “ bottom, butt, stump, stub ” ) .[ 1]
bun (plural buns )
Clipping ofbunny : arabbit .(sometimesreduplicated .) She brought home two newbuns to join the menagerie!
C'm'ere and get some hay, you littlebun -bun !
( dialect , archaic , nonclipped) Abunny : arabbit .( dialect , archaic ) Asquirrel .( dialect , archaic ) Thescut ortail of ahare .( dialect , archaic ) Adry stalk .Caribbean pronunciation ofburn .
bun (third-person singular simple present buns ,present participle bunning ,simple past and past participle bunned )
( Caribbean , MLE and MTE , slang ) To smokecannabis .( MLE , African-American Vernacular , slang ) Toshoot .( MLE , slang ) Toforget .2004 , MC Forcer, guest on Lethal Bizzle, "Pow! "Don't care about your crew,bun them any day 2011 ,Jme ,Mike Lowery :Some man acting dumb, think's he's a gun-man, wanna bring me drama. How you gonnabun me?
2017 , “Fire in the Booth”, performed by Taze, reused in ”Usual Suspects”:Look, come round, come roundgunning , I still look try tobun him Don't chat on the net ’boutbunnin , oh my God why the fuck you runnin?
2018 , “Slatt Season”, inSorry For The Get Off [3] , performed by Drego & Beno, track 15:The K in the back, the glock in the front It’s one in the head, you know how webun
bun (plural buns )
( Caribbean and MLE , slang ) marijuana cigarette ,joint 2018 , “Rolling Round”, HL8 and SimpzBeatz (music), performed by Sparko of OMH:Man say that they spray the fire I fuck that shit, I drop thebun
From theRevised Romanization ofKorean 분 ( bun ) , fromChinese 分 ( fèn ,“ fen ” ) .Doublet offen .
bun (plural buns or bun )
AKorean unit oflength equivalent toabout 0.3 cm . ^ Eric Partridge (1966),Origins: A short etymological dictionary of modern English . New York: Greenwich House,→ISBN , p. 64. Borrowed fromArabic بُنّ ( bunn ) .
IPA (key ) : /ˈbun/ [ˈbʊn] Hyphenation:bun bún m (plural buunitté f )
( Northern Afar ) coffee Declension ofbún absolutive bún predicative búunu subjective bún genitive buntí
E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985 ) “bun”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English) , University of London,→ISBN Inherited fromProto-Albanian *bhunā . CompareIllyrian *bounon . Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- ( “ to be wake, keep watch ” ) .
bun m (plural bune , definite buni , definite plural bunet )
hut ( of mountain shepherds ) ,chalet ,fenced area ( for cattle ) Synonyms: kasolle ,kolibe “bun ”, inFGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language ] (in Albanian),2006 FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language ][4] ,1980 FromLatin bonus . Compare Daco-Romanian bun .
bun m (feminine bunã ,plural bunj ,feminine plural buni or bune )
good bun
bread ,bun Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013. FromLatin bonus .
bun m (feminine buna )
good Borrowed fromArabic بُنّ ( bunn ) .
bun
coffee FromOld Irish bun ( “ the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot ” ) ,[ 1] fromProto-Celtic *bonus . Cognate withWelsh bôn .
bun m (genitive singular buin ,nominative plural bunanna )
base ,bottom stump lower endbasicprovision settled spell( of weather ) source Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “1 bun ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language ^ Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931 )Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry [Phonetics of an Irish Dialect of Kerry ] (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux,§ 166 , page85 ^ Finck, F. N. (1899 )Die araner mundart [The Aran Dialect ] (in German), volume II, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, page58 ^ Quiggin, E. C. (1906 )A Dialect of Donegal , Cambridge University Press,§ 203 , page78 de Bhaldraithe, Tomás (1959 ) “bun ”, inEnglish-Irish Dictionary , An Gúm“bun ”, inNew English-Irish Dictionary , Foras na Gaeilge,2013-2025 Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977 ) “bun ”, inFoclóir Gaeilge–Béarla , Dublin: An Gúm,→ISBN bun
Rōmaji transcription ofぶん FromLatin bonus .
bun
good FromLatin bonus . CompareAromanian bun ,Romanian bun .
bun
good bun
Alternative form ofboun bun m (oblique and nominative feminine singular bune )
( Anglo-Norman ) Alternative form ofbon FromProto-Celtic *bonus . Cognate withWelsh bôn .[ 1]
bun m (genitive bona ,nominative plural bonai )
base bottom butt end Initial mutations of a following adjective:
H = triggers aspirationL = triggers lenitionN = triggers nasalizationMutation ofbun radical lenition nasalization bun bun pronounced with /β(ʲ)-/ mbun
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Inherited fromLatin bonus , fromOld Latin duenos , laterduonus , fromProto-Italic *dwenos .Doublet ofbon ,bonă , and bonus .
bun m or n (feminine singular bună ,masculine plural buni ,feminine and neuter plural bune )
good Antonym: rău E un ombun , crede-mă. ―He is agood man, trust me. Suntbun la fotbal. ―I amgood at football. bun n (plural bunuri )
good ,asset ,possession Either from the above word or from aVulgar Latin *avunus , ultimately from the sameProto-Indo-European root asavus . (Compare the diminutiveavunculus ,avonculus ), probably influenced by or confused withbonus . Compare alsoFriulian von ( “ grandfather ” ) ,Calabrian andPiedmontese bona ( “ grandmother ” ) .[ 1]
bun m (plural buni ,feminine equivalent bună )
( uncommon ) grandfather Synonym: bunic FromOld Irish bun ( “ the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot ” ) , fromProto-Celtic *bonus . Cognate withWelsh bôn .
bun m (genitive singular buna or buin ,plural buin or bunan )
bottom ,base ,foundation butt ,stub Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Scottish Gaelic. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
Edward Dwelly (1911 ) “bun”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary ][5] , 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019 ), “1 bun ”, ineDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language bun ?
coffee Borrowed fromPortuguese bom .
bun
good bun
very ,rather bun
Romanization of𒇌 ( bun ) FromEnglish bone .
bun
( anatomy ) bone 1989 ,Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin , Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea,Jenesis 2:21 :Orait God, Bikpela i mekim man i slip i dai tru. Na taim man i slip yet, God i kisim wanpelabun long banis bilong man na i pasim gen skin bilong dispela hap. →New International Version translation FromOttoman Turkish بوك ( buñ ) ,Proto-Turkic *buŋ . Cognate withKazakh мұң ( mūñ ) .
bun
distress bùn
( transitive ) todash , todonate , togive away óbùn mi ní owó ―Hegave me money ( transitive ) togift ,bless , orendow someone( intransitive ) to begifted ,endowed , orblessed with somethingSense 1 is a verbal element that subcategorizes an NP-object (receiver) + ní + NP phrase bun before a direct object