Sun
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English
Pronunciation
- SAMPA: /sVn/
Homophone
Abbreviation
Sun.
Etymology
From Middle English, from Old English sunne. Cognates include German Sonne and Latin Sol.
Proper noun
Sun or sun
- The star at the centre of our solar system.
Noun
sun
- A star, especially when seen as the centre of a solar system.
Related terms
- sunbath
- sunblind
- sunburn
- sundial
- sunglass (see also hand glass)
- sunglasses
- sunrise
- sunscreen
- sunset
- sunshine
- sunspot
- sunstroke
- sunny
See also
- annular eclipse
- lunar eclipse
- milky way
- sunn
- sunflower
- solar
- solar eclipse
Translations
- Albanian: diell m
- Arabic: شمس (shams)
- Armenian: արեւ (arev)
- Basque: eguzki
- Breton: Heol m, heol m -ioù
- Catalan: sol m (ca)
- Chinese: 日, 太阳 / 太陽 (tàiyáng), 阳光, 恒星
- Cornish: howl m
- Czech: slunce n
- Dutch: zon f
- Esperanto: suno
- Estonian: päike
- Finnish: aurinko
- French: soleil m
- Frisian: sinne
- German: Sonne f
- Greek: ήλιος m (ílios)
- Guarani: kuarahy
- Hausa: rānā
- Hawaiian: la
- Hebrew: שמש (Shemesh) f,m, חמה (Hamaa) f
- Hungarian: nap
- Icelandic: sól
- Indonesian: matahari, surya, mentari
- Interlingua: sol
- Italian: sole m
- Japanese: 太陽 (たいよう, taiyō) / 日 (ひ, hi)
- Korean: 해 (hae), 태양 [太陽] (taeyang)
- Latin: sol m
- Lithuanian: saulė
- Macedonian: сонце (sontse)
- Malagasy: masoandro
- Maltese: xemx
- Manchu: (šun)
- Mapuche: anchü
- Masai: ndama
- Mongolian: нар (nar)
- Navajo: johonaa'ei
- Ojibwa: kiizis
- Persian: خورشید (khorshid)
- Polish: słońce n
- Portuguese: sol m
- Quechua: inti
- Romanica: sol m
- Russian: солнце n
- Slovak: slnko n, slnce n
- Slovene: sonce n
- Somali: qorrax
- Spanish: sol m
- Swedish: sol c
- Tagalog: araw
- Tupinambá: kûarasy
- Turkish: güneş
- Welsh: haul m
