bunny

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ˈbʌni/
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• Northern-England: /ˈbʊni/
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• Scotland: /ˈbʌne/
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• rhymes with -ʌni
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• CMU ARPABET: B AH1 N IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From bun (“rabbit”) + -y (diminutive suffix). Probably from Scottish Gaelic bun (“bottom, butt, stump, stub”), from Old Irish bun (“the thick end of anything, base, butt, foot”), from Proto-Celtic *bonus, though its origin is uncertain. Compare also English bum. Together with rabbit, bunny has largely displaced its former rhyme cony (see cony for more).

From bun (“small bread roll”) + -y.

From bunny, after the group’s rabbit motif.

From Middle English bony, boni (“swelling, tumor”), from Old French bugne, buigne (“swelling, lump”), from Old Frankish *bungjo (“swelling, bump”), from Proto-Germanic *bungô, *bunkô (“lump, clump, heap, crowd”). More at bunion, bunch.

From Middle English bune (“hollow stalk or stem, drinking straw”), from Old English bune (“cup, beaker, drinking vessel; reed, cane”), of unknown origin. Related to English bun, boon (“the stalk of flax or hemp less the fibre”), Scots bune, boon, been, see bun, boon. Compare also bunweed.

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: lepurush — young rabbit
• Arabic: خَرْنَق (ḵarnaq) — young rabbit
• Asturian: cuirapín — young rabbit
• Asturian: galdrapín — young rabbit
• Catalan: catxap — young rabbit
• Catalan: conillet — young rabbit
• Catalan: llorigó — young rabbit
• Chinese Mandarin: 小兔 (xiǎotù) — young rabbit
• Chinese Mandarin: 小兔子 (xiǎotùzi) — young rabbit
• Dutch: konijntje — young rabbit
• Esperanto: kuniklido — young rabbit
• Finnish: pupu — young rabbit
• Finnish: kani — young rabbit
• French: lapereau — young rabbit
• German: Kaninchenjunges — young rabbit
• German: Häschen — young rabbit
• Greek: κουνελάκι (kouneláki) — young rabbit
• Hebrew: שפנפן (shfanfan) — young rabbit
• Hebrew: שפנפנה (shfanfana) — young rabbit
• Hungarian: nyuszi — young rabbit
• Italian: coniglietto — young rabbit
• Japanese: 子兎 (kousagi) — young rabbit
• Korean: 토끼 (tokki) — young rabbit
• Macedonian: зајаче (zajače) — young rabbit
• Norwegian: hare — young rabbit
• Norwegian: harepus — young rabbit
• Polish: króliczek — young rabbit
• Portuguese: coelhinho — young rabbit
• Portuguese: caçapo — young rabbit
• Romanian: iepuraș — young rabbit
• Russian: кро́лик (królik) — young rabbit
• Russian: крольчо́нок (krolʹčónok) — young rabbit
• Russian: за́йчик (zájčik) — young rabbit
• Sicilian: cunigghieddu — young rabbit
• Spanish: conejito — young rabbit
• Spanish: gazapo — young rabbit
• Volapük: kroligül — young rabbit
• Volapük: hikroligül — young rabbit
• Volapük: jikroligül — young rabbit
• Volapük: krolig yunik — young rabbit
• Volapük: hikrolig yunik — young rabbit
• Volapük: jikrolig yunik — young rabbit
• Catalan: conilleta — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Finnish: puputyttö — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Hebrew: שפנפנה (shfanfana) — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Hungarian: nyuszi — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Hungarian: Play Boy-nyuszi — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Italian: coniglietta — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Polish: króliczek — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Portuguese: coelhinha — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Russian: зайка (zajka) — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Russian: кролик (krolik) — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail
• Spanish: conejita — women in a costume of rabbit ears and tail