fun

See also: Appendix:Variations of "fun"

Translingual

Etymology

Abbreviation of English Fulniô.

Symbol

fun

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fulniô.

See also

English

Etymology

From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), from Middle English fonne (“a fool, dupe”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”), from Old Norse fáni (“vain person, swaggerer”), but of unknown ultimate origin. Perhaps related to or influenced by fjäll (“rock, cliff, mountain”).[1] Compare also English fumble, Norwegian Nynorsk fomme (“clumsy fool”).

Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond.

As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.

Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of fāmne, fēmne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnijā, from Proto-Germanic *faimnijǭ (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen- (“breast milk”). If so, then cognate with Old English fǣmne (“maid, virgin, damsel, bride”), West Frisian famke (“girl”), Saterland Frisian fone, fon (“woman, maid, servant," also "weakling, simpleton”).

Pronunciation

  • (US, Received Pronunciation) enPR: fŭn, IPA(key): /fʌn/
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /fʊn/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌn

Noun

fun (uncountable)

  1. Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
    Synonyms: amusement, diversion, enjoyment, a laugh, pleasure
    • 2000, Robert Stanley, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop 6, Alpha Books, page 377:
      Grafting your boss's face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real.
  2. Playful, often noisy, activity.
    Synonyms: boisterousness, horseplay, rough and tumble

Derived terms

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Translations

Adjective

fun (comparative more fun or (informal) funner, superlative most fun or (informal) funnest)

  1. Enjoyable or amusing.
    We had a fun time at the party.
    He is such a fun person to be with.
    • 1995 November 8, Ed Zuckerman, Morgan Gendel, “Hot Pursuit” (21:04 from the start), in Law & Order, season 6, episode 5, spoken by Executive ADA Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston):
      Maybe she was a bored rich girl who thought shooting people with Leon was a fun date.
    • 2016 January 11, Tom Bateman, quoted in Nigel Hunt, "Jekyll and Hyde, TV revamp of Robert Louis Stevenson classic, debuts on CBC-TV" CBC News, Canada:
      He's the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play
  2. (informal) Whimsical or flamboyant.
    This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.

Derived terms

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Verb

fun (third-person singular simple present funs, present participle funning, simple past and past participle funned)

  1. (colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
    Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

Translations

See also

etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "fun"

References

  1. ^ “fun”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎[1] (in Swedish), 1898–2023

Anagrams

Chibcha

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /βun/

Noun

fun

  1. alternative form of bun

References

  • Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

Chinese

Etymology

Borrowed from English fun.

Pronunciation

Noun

fun

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese) fun (Should we delete(+) this sense?)

References

Cornish

Etymology

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

Noun

fun f (plural funyow)

  1. cable
    Synonyms: kapel, korsen

References

  • “fun” in Cornish Dictionary / Gerlyver Kernewek, Akademi Kernewek.

French

Etymology

    Borrowed from English fun.

    Pronunciation

    Adjective

    fun (invariable)

    1. (colloquial) fun
      C'était juste pour le fun.
      It was just for fun.
      Il a l'air fun.
      It looks fun.

    Galician

    Etymology 1

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    fun

    1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

    Etymology 2

    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

    fun

    1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

    Hunsrik

    Alternative forms

    • funn (Altenhofen spelling)

    Etymology

    From Middle High German von (“from”), from Old High German fon, fona (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fanē (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó (“off”).

    Cognate with German vom and Luxembourgish vun.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈfun/
    • Rhymes: -un
    • Syllabification: fun

    Preposition

    fun [with dative]

    1. of; expressing possession
      Das Haus fun de Fraa
      The house of the woman
    2. from; used to indicate source or provenance
      Ich sin fun Hambeuch
      I'm from Hamburg.
    3. from; used to indicate a starting point or initial reference
      Sie schaffe fun heit bis moie
      They will work from today to tomorrow.

    References

    Japanese

    Romanization

    fun

    1. Rōmaji transcription of ふん
    2. Rōmaji transcription of フン

    Scots

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): [fʌn]

    Noun

    fun (plural funs)

    1. Doric Scots form of whin (“gorse, furze”)

    Further reading

    Tboli

    Noun

    fun

    1. owner

    Yoruba

    Verb

    fún

    1. give
    2. choke, squeeze, strangle, throttle
    3. scatter, strew
    4. sew

    Preposition

    fún

    1. for, on behalf of
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