gun

== Translingual == === Etymology === Abbreviation of English Mbyá Guaraní, from Portuguese guarani or Spanish guaraní. === Symbol === gun (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Mbya Guarani. === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Mbya Guarani terms == English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English gunne, gonne, possibly from Gunnhild, a female given name formerly used as a nickname for engines of war (compare Nordic Gunn, a female name meaning “battle”). The name is composed of the Norse elements gunnr and hildr, both meaning "battle". ==== Pronunciation ==== enPR: gŭn, IPA(key): /ˈɡʌn/ (Southern US, Midland US, African-American Vernacular) IPA(key): /ˈɡɜn/ (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /ɡʊn/ Rhymes: -ʌn ==== Noun ==== gun (plural guns) A device for shooting projectiles or ditto (a shooter), functioning through stored energy: a firearm, cannon, harpoon gun/spear gun, raygun, etc, not a bow and arrow, or slingshot. Hypernyms: ranged weapon < weapon Hyponyms: revolver, pistol, pistol, handgun, rifle, firearm; artillery, cannon, autocannon; see also Thesaurus:firearm Coordinate terms: cold weapon, hot weapon, white arm, knife 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. A very portable, short firearm, for hand use, which fires bullets or projectiles, such as a handgun, revolver, pistol, or Derringer. A less portable, long firearm that fires bullets or projectiles; a rifle, either manual, automatic or semi-automatic; a flintlock, musket or shotgun. (military) A cannon with relatively long barrel, operating with relatively low angle of fire, and having a high muzzle velocity. (military) A cannon with a 6-inch/155mm minimum nominal bore diameter and tube length 30 calibers or more. Coordinate terms: howitzer, mortar (figurative) A firearm or cannon used for saluting or signalling.21-gun salute A device operated by a trigger and acting in a manner similar to a firearm. Any implement designed to fire a projectile from a tube. A device or tool that projects a substance. A device or tool that applies something rather than projecting it. (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. (cellular automata) A pattern that "fires" out other patterns. (colloquial, metonymic) A person who carries or uses a gun (rifle, shotgun or handgun), particularly with reference to how quickly the person can draw and fire the gun. (television) An electron gun. (colloquial, usually in the plural) The biceps. (nautical, in the plural) Violent blasts of wind. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Someone excellent, surpassingly wonderful, skilful, 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) (transitive) To cause to speed up. (informal) To offer vigorous support to (a person or cause). (informal) (gunning for something or gunning to do something) make a great effort. To seek to attack someone; to take aim at someone; used with for. To practice fowling or hunting small game; chiefly in participial form: to go gunning. (ambitransitive, 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) (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 Nonstandard spelling of going to. === References === === Anagrams === Ung, gnu, NGU, GNU, UNG, nug, Ngu, NGu == Bambara == === Noun === gun island == Bissa == === Noun === gun night == Cornish == === Noun === gun f (plural gonyow) plain == Dongxiang == === Etymology === From Proto-Mongolic *gün, compare Mongolian гүн (gün). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kuŋ/ === Adjective === gun deep == Dutch == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɣʏn/ Hyphenation: gun Rhymes: -ʏn Homophone: Gun === Verb === gun inflection of gunnen: first-person singular present indicative (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative imperative == Indonesian == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɡun/, [ˈɡun] Rhymes: -ɡʊn Hyphenation: gun === Etymology 1 === Borrowed from Javanese ꦒꦸꦤ꧀ (gun). ==== Noun ==== gun loom Synonym: serit === Etymology 2 === Unadapted borrowing from Japanese 郡(ぐん) (gun, “county, district”). Romanised according modified Kunrei-shiki romanization. ==== Noun ==== gun (historical, 1942-1945) synonym of kewedanaan === Further reading === “gun”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016 == Japanese == === Romanization === gun Rōmaji transcription of ぐん == Jingpho == === Etymology === Borrowed from Burmese ကုန် (kun). Cognate with Shan ၵုၼ်ႇ (kùn). === Noun === gun goods for sale === References === Kurabe, Keita (31 December 2016), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎[3], volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128 == Mandarin == === Romanization === gun nonstandard spelling of gǔn 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) alternative form of gunn == Middle English == === Noun === gun alternative form of gunne == Northern Kurdish == === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ʊn === Noun === gun m 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 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) without gun teagamh ― without a doubt gun chàr ― without a car 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) 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 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 (intransitive) to climb, to ascend something to be climbed, to be mounted (intransitive, transitive) to ride or mount (someone or something) ó gun kẹ́tẹ́kẹ́tẹ́ ― She mounted a donkey (idiomatic, intransitive) to copulate, to mate Synonym: dó (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 (intransitive) to sweat Synonym: làágùn ===== Derived terms ===== òógùn (“sweat”) === Etymology 4 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɡũ̄/ ==== Verb ==== gun 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 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 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 to be straight; to straighten 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.”) to shrug one's shoulders Mo gún èjìká. ― I shrugged my shoulders. === Etymology 8 === ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ɡṹ/ ==== Verb ==== gún to curse Synonym: gégùn-ún ===== Derived terms =====