👁 White glowing ball with black sunspots

From Middle English sunne, from Old English sunna, sunne (“sun; the Sun”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā, from Proto-Germanic *sunnǭ, from the heteroclitic inanimate Proto-Indo-European *sh₂wén-, oblique form of *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun; the Sun”).

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sunne, West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon, Old Dutch sunna, German Low German Sünn, Old Saxon sunna, German Sonne, Old High German sunna, Faroese sunna, Icelandic sunna, Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō). More at sun.

• sonne, sunne (obsolete)
• sun

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sʌn/

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• Rhymes: -ʌn
• Homophones: son, sun

the Sun

1. The star at the center of the Solar System (our solar system), which shines in our sky, represented in astronomy and astrology by ☉.
2. The 91st sura (chapter) of the Qur'an.
3. (newspapers) An English tabloid newspaper.

• Sol
• ☉ ☼

• sun
• currant bun

Solar System in English · Solar System (layout · text)
Star	Sun
IAU planets and notable dwarf planets	Mercury	Venus	Earth	Mars	Ceres	Jupiter	Saturn	Uranus	Neptune	Pluto	Eris
Notable moons	—	—	Moon	Phobos Deimos	—	Io Europa Ganymede Callisto	Mimas Enceladus Tethys Dione Rhea Titan Iapetus	Miranda Ariel Umbriel Titania Oberon	Triton	Charon	Dysnomia

• Sun.

Sun (plural Suns)

1. Abbreviation of Sunday.

• Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat

From Mandarin 孫／孙 (Sūn), Wade-Giles romanization: Sun¹.

Sun (plural Suns)

1. A surname.

• 'uns, NUS, UNS, USN, uns

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• Sunn

From Middle High German sunne, from Old High German sunna, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā. Cognates include German Sonne and Luxembourgish Sonn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsun/
• Hyphenation: Sun

Sun f

1. sun
   • 2017, “Spür die Sun [Feel the sun]”, performed by Granada:

     Spür die Sun, die Sun.

     Feel the sun, the sun.

• Maria Hornung; Sigmar Grüner (2002), “Sun”, in Wörterbuch der Wiener Mundart, 2nd edition, ÖBV & HPT
• Petr Šubrt (2010), Wiener dialekt (master thesis), Masaryk University, page 24

From Hakka 孫／孙 (sūn).

Sun

1. a surname from Hakka

• Soon
• Son

From Hokkien 孫 / 孙 (Sun) and Mandarin 孫 / 孙 (Sūn).

• (Standard Tagalog)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈsun/ [ˈsʊn̪]
    • Rhymes: -un
  • IPA^(key): /sʌn/ [sʌn̪] (English influence)
• Syllabification: Sun

Sun (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜈ᜔)

1. a Chinese surname from Mandarin
2. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien

From Ottoman Turkish صنع (sun'), from Arabic صُنْع (ṣunʕ).

Sun

1. a male given name
2. a female given name

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