Sun

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sun"

English

The Sun (1)

The Sun's astronomical/astrological symbol ⟨☉⟩

Etymology 1

From Middle English sunne, from Old English sunna, sunne (“sun; the Sun”), 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.

Alternative forms

• sonne, sunne (obsolete)
• sun

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /sʌn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌn
• Homophones: son, sun

Proper noun

the Sun

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

Synonyms

• Sol
• ☉ ☼

Related terms

• sun
• currant bun

Translations

star

• Abkhaz: Амра (Amra)
• Afrikaans: Son
• Akkadian: 𒌓 m (šamšu)
• Albanian: Dielli m (definite), diell (sq) m
• Amharic: ፀሐይ (ṣ́äḥäy)
• Arabic: اَلشَّمْس f (aš-šams) (definite), شَمْس (ar) f (šams)
• Aramaic:

  Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܫܸܡܫܵܐ (šimša)

  Classical Syriac: ܫܡܫܐ c (/⁠šemšā⁠/)

• Armenian: Արեգակ (hy) (Aregak)
• Aromanian: soari m
• Asturian: sol (ast) m, Sol (ast) m
• Avar: Бакъ (Baqxʼ)
• Aymara: Willka, Inti
• Azerbaijani: Günəş (az)
• Bashkir: Ҡояш (Qoyaş), ҡояш (qoyaş)
• Belarusian: Со́нца n (Sónca)
• Bengali: সূর্য (bn) (śurjo)
• Breton: Heol m
• Bulgarian: Слъ́нце n (Slǎ́nce)
• Burmese: နေ (my) (ne)
• Carpathian Rusyn: Со́нце n (Sónce)
• Catalan: Sol (ca) m
• Chechen: Малх (Malx)
• Cherokee: ᏅᏓᎡᎨᎯ (nvdaegehi)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 太陽 / 太阳 (taai³ joeng⁴)

  Dungan: Жәту (Řətu), Әрту (Ərtu), Тэён (Tei͡on), Эрту (Ertu) (Shaanxi)

  Hakka: 日頭 / 日头 (ngit-thèu)

  Hokkien: 日頭 / 日头 (zh-min-nan) (ji̍t-thâu, li̍t-thâu), 太陽 / 太阳 (zh-min-nan) (thài-iâng)

  Mandarin: 太陽 / 太阳 (zh) (tàiyáng)

• Chukchi: Тиркытир (Tirkytir)
• Chuvash: Хӗвел (Hĕvel)
• Czech: Slunce (cs) n
• Danish: Solen (da)
• Dhivehi: އިރު (dv) (iru)
• Dolgan: Күн (Kün)
• Dutch: zon (nl) f, (astronomy) Zon (nl) f
• Dzongkha: ཉི་མ་ (nyi ma)
• Erzya: Чи (Či)
• Esperanto: suno (eo)
• Estonian: päike (et), Päike
• Even: Нӫ̄лтэн (Ņȫltən)
• Evenki: Дылача̄ (Dilaçā), Сигӯн (Sigūn) (dialectal)
• Faroese: Sólin
• Fijian: Matanasiga
• Finnish: Aurinko (fi)
• French: Soleil (fr) m
• Galician: sol (gl) m
• Gamilaraay: yaraay
• Georgian: მზე (ka) (mze)
• German: Sonne (de) f
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 f (sunnō), 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌹𐌻 n (sauil)
• Greek: Ήλιος (el) m (Ílios)

  Ancient: ἀγαθό δαίμων m (agathó daímōn), Φᾰέθων m (Phaéthōn)

• Greenlandic: Seqineq
• Guaraní: Kuarahy (gn)
• Gujarati: સૂર્ય (gu) (sūrya)
• Gun: (Ogoun) Owhé (whé)Hwé
• Haitian Creole: Solèy
• Hawaiian: Lā
• Hebrew: שֶׁמֶשׁ (he) f (shémesh), חַמָּה (he) f (khamá)
• Hindi: सूर्य (hi) m (sūrya), सूरज (hi) m (sūraj), रवि (hi) m (ravi), दिनकर (hi) m (dinkar), भानु (hi) m (bhānu), आदित्य (hi) m (āditya), भास्कर (hi) m (bhāskar), दिनेश (hi) m (dineś)
• Hittite: 𒀭𒌓𒇷𒄿𒀀 (^DUTU-li-ya)
• Hungarian: nap (hu), Nap (hu)
• Icelandic: sól (is), Sól (is) f
• Ido: suno (io)
• Indonesian: Matahari (id), matahari (id)
• Ingrian: päivyt, päivä (obsolete or folk poetic), päiväin (dialectal), aurinko (dialectal, rare)
• Ingush: Малх (Malx)
• Irish: Grian, An Ghrian
• Istro-Romanian: sore m
• Italian: sole (it) m
• Jamaican Creole: Son
• Japanese: 太陽 (ja) (たいよう, taiyō)
• Javanese: Srengéngé
• Kalmyk: Нарн (Narn)
• Kannada: ಸೂರ್ಯ (kn) (sūrya), ನೇಸರು (kn) (nēsaru), ರವಿ (kn) (ravi)
• Kapampangan: Aldo
• Karelian: Päiväine, Päivy
• Kashubian: Słuńce n
• Kazakh: Күн (kk) (Kün)
• Khakas: Кӱн (Kün)
• Khmer: ព្រះអាទិត្យ (km) (prĕəh ʼaatɨt)
• Komi-Zyrian: Шонді (Šondi)
• Korean: 해 (ko) (hae), 일 (ko) (il), 태양(太陽) (ko) (taeyang)
• Kyrgyz: Күн (Kün)
• Lakota: apawi
• Lao: ຕາເວັນ (lo) (tā wen)
• Latin: sōl (la)
• Latvian: Saule (lv)
• Laz: მჟორა (mjora)
• Lezgi: Рагъ (Raġ)
• Lingala: Mói
• Lithuanian: saulė (lt) f
• Low German:

  German Low German: Sünn (nds) f

• Lü: ᦎᦱᦞᧃ (ṫaavan)
• Macedonian: Сонце n (Sonce)
• Malagasy: Masoandro (mg)
• Malay: Matahari (ms), matahari (ms)
• Malayalam: ഞായർ (ml) (ñāyaṟ), സൂര്യൻ (ml) (sūryaṉ)
• Maltese: Xemx m, xemx (mt) m
• Manchu: ᡧᡠᠨ (šun)
• Maori: Rā
• Marathi: सूर्य m (sūrya), आदित्य m (āditya), दिनकर (dinkar), मित्र (mitra), रवी (mr) (ravī)
• Megleno-Romanian: soari m
• Mingrelian: ბჟა (bža)
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: Нар (mn) (Nar)

  Mongolian: ᠨᠠᠷᠠ (nara)

• Nandi: asis
• Navajo: jóhonaaʼéí
• Nepali: सूर्य (sūrya)
• Ngarrindjeri: Nungge
• Northern East Cree: ᒌᔑᑳᓂᐲᓯᒻ (ciishikaanipiisim), ᐲᓯᒻ (piisim)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Sol m or f, Solen m or f (definite)

  Nynorsk: Sol f, Sola f (definite)

• Nuosu: ꉘꁮ (hxo bbu)
• Odia: ସୂର୍ଯ୍ୟ (surjya)
• Ogoun: OHWÉ (whé) Hwé
• Ojibwe: giizis
• Old English: Sunne
• Old Occitan: sol, solelh m
• Old Tupi: kûarasy
• Ossetian: Хур (Xur)
• Pannonian Rusyn: Слунко n (Slunko)
• Pashto: لمر (ps) m (lmër), نور (ps) m (nwër), نمر (ps) m (nmër)
• Persian:

  Dari: خُورْشِید (xūršīd), خُورْشید (xūršēd), خُور (xūr), شَمْس (šams)

  Iranian Persian: خورْشید (xoršid), خور (fa) (xor), شَمْس (šams)

• Polish: słońce (pl) n
• Portuguese: Sol (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸੂਰਜ (pa) (sūraj)
• Purepecha: jurhiata, jurhíata
• Quechua: Inti
• Romanian: soare (ro) m
• Russian: Со́лнце (ru) n (Sólnce)
• Sanskrit: रवि (sa) (ravi), सूर्य (sa) (sūrya), दिनकर (sa) (dinakara)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Су̑нце n

  Roman: Sȗnce (sh) n

• Shona: Zuva
• Shor: Кӱн (Kün)
• Silesian: Słůńce n
• Sinhalese: හිරු (si) (hiru), ඉර (si) (ira)
• Slovak: Slnko n
• Slovene: sonce (sl) n, Sonce (sl) n
• Somali: Qorrax, Cadceed
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: Słyńco n

  Upper Sorbian: Słónco n

• Southern Altai: Кӱн (Kün)
• Spanish: sol (es) m, Sol (es) m
• Sumerian: 𒌓 (ud)
• Sundanese: panonpoe
• Svan: მიჟ (miž)
• Swahili: Jua
• Swedish: solen (sv) c
• Tagalog: Araw, Adlaw
• Tajik: Офтоб (tg) (Oftob), Хуршед (Xuršed), офтоб (tg) (oftob)
• Tamil: ஞாயிறு (ta) (ñāyiṟu), சூரியன் (ta) (cūriyaṉ)
• Tarifit: tfuct f, tfuyt f
• Tatar: Кояш (tt) (Qoyaş), кояш (tt) (qoyaş)
• Telugu: సూర్యుడు (te) (sūryuḍu), నెసరు (nesaru), పొద్దు (te) (poddu)
• Thai: ดวงอาทิตย์ (th) (duuang-aa-tít)
• Tibetan: ཉི་མ (nyi ma)
• Tofa: Һүн (Hün), Күн (Kün)
• Tok Pisin: San
• Tongan: Laʻā
• Tswana: Letsatsi
• Tumbuka: Zuba, Zuŵa
• Turkish: Güneş (tr)
• Turkmen: Güneş, Gün
• Tuvan: Хүн (Xün)
• Tzotzil: kʼakʼal
• Ukrainian: Со́нце (uk) n (Sónce)
• Urdu: سُورَج (ur) m (sūraj), خورْشِید m (xurśīd), رَوی m (ravī), سُورْیَہ m (sūrya), شَمْس (ur) m (śams)
• Uyghur: قۇياش (ug) (quyash), كۈن (ug) (kün)
• Uzbek: Quyosh, Oftob
• Venetan: Sołe m
• Veps: Päiväine
• Vietnamese: Mặt Trời (vi)
• Volapük: sol (vo)
• Welsh: Haul (cy)
• Wolof: Jant
• Written Oirat: ᠨᠠᠷᠠᠨ (naran)
• Yakut: Күн (Kün)
• Yiddish: זון f (zun), החמה f (hakhome)
• Yoruba: Òòrùn
• Zhuang: da'ngoenz, gyangngoenz, gyangjngoenz, havaenz
• Zulu: Ilanga class 5/6

91st sura of the Qur'an

• Arabic: سُورَةُ الشَمْسِ (sūratu š-šamsi)

newspaper

• Arabic: ذَا صَن f (ḏā ṣan)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 太陽報 / 太阳报 (Tàiyángbào)

• Japanese: ザ・サン (Za-San)
• Russian: Сан (ru) m or f (San)

See also

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

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• Sun.

Noun

Sun (plural Suns)

1. Abbreviation of Sunday.

Coordinate terms

• Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat

Translations

Sunday

• Catalan: dg. (ca)
• Czech: ne (cs)
• Danish: søn (da)
• Estonian: P (et)
• Finnish: su (fi)
• French: dim. (fr) m
• German: So. (de), Son., Sonnt.
• Hindi: रविवार (hi) m (ravivār), इतवार (hi) m (itvār)
• Japanese: 日 (ja) (nichi), 日曜 (ja) (nichiyō)
• Korean: 일 (ko) (il)
• Portuguese: dom (pt) m
• Scottish Gaelic: Did
• Vietnamese: CN (vi)

Etymology 3

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

Proper noun

Sun (plural Suns)

1. A surname.

Derived terms

• Wall-Sun-Sun prime

 

Anagrams

• 'uns, NUS, UNS, USN, uns

Bavarian

De Sun.

Alternative forms

• Sunn

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Sun f

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

     Spür die Sun, die Sun.

     Feel the sun, the sun.

References

• 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

Indonesian

Etymology

From Hakka 孫／孙 (sūn).

Proper noun

Sun

1. a surname from Hakka

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• Soon
• Son

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Proper noun

Sun (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜓᜈ᜔)

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

Turkish

Etymology

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

Proper noun

Sun

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