cannon

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• General-American: /ˈkænən/
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• kăn'ən
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• /ˈkæn.ən/
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• rhymes with -ænən
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• homophone: canon
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• CMU ARPABET: K AE1 N AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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* As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Canann (“descendant of Cana”), Ó Canáin (“descendant of Canán”), from cana (“wolf cub”). Comparable to McCann, McConnon, Connon. * As an English surname, from the noun canon. * As a French surname, variant of Canon.

Attested from around 1400 as Middle English canon, canoun, from Old French canon, from Italian cannone, from Latin canna, from Ancient Greek κάννα (kánna, “reed”), from Akkadian 𒄀 (qanû, “reed”), from Sumerian 𒄀𒈾 (gi.na) (for more, see cane). Doublet of canyon. This spelling was not fixed until about 1800.

161 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: абзарбзан (abzarbzan) — artillery piece
• Afrikaans: kanon — artillery piece
• Albanian: top — artillery piece
• Amharic: መድፍ (mädf) — artillery piece
• Arabic: مِدْفَع (midfaʕ) — artillery piece
• Arabic: مدفع (mádfaʕ) — artillery piece
• Arabic: مِدْفَع (midfaʕ) — artillery piece
• Arabic: مدفع (mádfaʕ) — artillery piece
• Armenian: թնդանոթ (tʻndanotʻ) — artillery piece
• Assamese: হিলৈ (hiloi) — artillery piece
• Assamese: তোপ (tüp) — artillery piece
• Asturian: cañón — artillery piece
• Azerbaijani: döyüş topu — artillery piece
• Azerbaijani: top — artillery piece
• Basque: kanoi — artillery piece
• Belarusian: гарма́та (harmáta) — artillery piece
• Belarusian: пу́шка (púška) — artillery piece
• Bengali: কামান (kaman) — artillery piece
• Bengali: তোপ (tōp) — artillery piece
• Bulgarian: топ (top) — artillery piece
• Bulgarian: оръ́дие (orǎ́die) — artillery piece
• Burmese: အမြောက် (a.mrauk) — artillery piece
• Catalan: canó — artillery piece
• Chinese Mandarin: 炮 (pào) — artillery piece
• Chinese Mandarin: 大砲 /大炮 (dàpào) — artillery piece
• Chinese Mandarin: 加農炮 /加农炮 (jiānóngpào) — artillery piece
• Chinese Mandarin: 加農 /加农 (jiānóng) — artillery piece
• Chuvash: тупӑ (tup̬ă) — artillery piece
• East Circassian: топ (top) — artillery piece
• Czech: dělo — artillery piece
• Danish: kanon — artillery piece
• Dutch: kanon — artillery piece
• Esperanto: kanono — artillery piece
• Esperanto: pafilego — artillery piece
• Estonian: kahur — artillery piece
• Finnish: tykki — artillery piece
• French: canon — artillery piece
• Galician: canón — artillery piece
• Georgian: ქვემეხი (kvemexi) — artillery piece
• German: Kanone — artillery piece
• Greek: κανόνι (kanóni) — artillery piece
• Gujarati: તોપ (top) — artillery piece
• Hawaiian: pū kuni ahi — artillery piece
• Hawaiian: olohao — artillery piece
• Hebrew: תּוֹתָח (totákh) — artillery piece
• Hindi: तोप (top) — artillery piece
• Hindi: कमान (kamān) — artillery piece
• Hungarian: ágyú — artillery piece
• Hungarian: löveg — artillery piece
• Icelandic: fallbyssa — artillery piece
• Indonesian: meriam — artillery piece
• Ingrian: tykki — artillery piece
• Irish: canóin — artillery piece
• Italian: cannone — artillery piece
• Japanese: 大砲 (taihō) — artillery piece
• Japanese: キャノン (kyanon) — artillery piece
• Japanese: カノン砲 (kanon hō) — artillery piece
• Javanese: mriem — artillery piece
• Kalmyk: тов (tov) — artillery piece
• Kannada: ತೋಪು (tōpu) — artillery piece
• Kashubian: kanóna — artillery piece
• Kashubian: armata — artillery piece
• Kazakh: зеңбірек (zeñbırek) — artillery piece
• Khmer: កាំភ្លើងមេរៀម (kamphləəng mei riəm) — artillery piece
• Khmer: កាំភ្លើងធំ (kamphləəng thom) — artillery piece
• Korean: 캐넌 (kaeneon) — artillery piece
• Korean: 대포 (daepo) — artillery piece
• Central Kurdish: لولەتۆپ (luletop) — artillery piece
• Northern Kurdish: top — artillery piece
• Northern Kurdish: moşek — artillery piece
• Northern Kurdish: sarox — artillery piece
• Kyrgyz: замбирек (zambirek) — artillery piece
• Lao: ປືນໃຫຍ່ (pư̄n h) — artillery piece
• Latin: tormentum — artillery piece
• Latin: pyrobolus — artillery piece
• Latvian: lielgabals — artillery piece
• Lezgi: туп (tup) — artillery piece
• Lithuanian: patranka — artillery piece
• Luxembourgish: Kanoun — artillery piece
• Macedonian: топ (top) — artillery piece
• Malagasy: tafondro — artillery piece
• Malay: meriam — artillery piece
• Malay: bedil — artillery piece
• Malayalam: പീരങ്കി (pīraṅki) — artillery piece
• Manchu: ᡦᠣᠣ (poo) — artillery piece
• Māori: pū repo — artillery piece
• Marathi: तोफ (toph) — artillery piece
• Middle English: canon — artillery piece
• Middle English: bombard — artillery piece
• Mongolian: их буу (ix buu) — artillery piece
• Nanai: пао (pao) — artillery piece
• Nauruan: ekanen — artillery piece
• Nepali: तोप (top) — artillery piece
• Norman: canon — artillery piece
• Norwegian Bokmål: kanon — artillery piece
• Occitan: canon — artillery piece
• Old East Slavic: пушка (puška) — artillery piece
• Old East Slavic: пушька (pušĭka) — artillery piece
• Pashto: توپ (top) — artillery piece
• Dari: توپ (tōp) — artillery piece
• Iranian Persian: توپ (tup) — artillery piece
• Plautdietsch: Kanoon — artillery piece
• Polish: armata — artillery piece
• Polish: działo — artillery piece
• Portuguese: canhão — artillery piece
• Quechua: hatun illapa — artillery piece
• Quechua: kañun — artillery piece
• Romanian: tun — artillery piece
• Russian: пу́шка (púška) — artillery piece
• Russian: ору́дие (orúdije) — artillery piece
• Samogitian: armata — artillery piece
• Sanskrit: नळिकम् (naḷikam) — artillery piece
• Serbo-Croatian: то̏п — artillery piece
• Serbo-Croatian: tȍp — artillery piece
• Slovak: delo — artillery piece
• Slovene: top — artillery piece
• Lower Sorbian: kanuna — artillery piece
• Spanish: cañón — artillery piece
• Swahili: mzinga — artillery piece
• Swedish: kanon — artillery piece
• Tagalog: kanyon — artillery piece
• Tajik: тӯп (tüp) — artillery piece
• Tarifit: rburqi — artillery piece
• Telugu: ఫిరంగి (phiraṅgi) — artillery piece
• Thai: ปืนใหญ่ (bpʉʉn-yài) — artillery piece
• Tigrinya: መድፍዕ (mädfəʿ) — artillery piece
• Turkish: top — artillery piece
• Turkish: savaş topu — artillery piece
• Ottoman Turkish: طوپ (top) — artillery piece
• Turkmen: top — artillery piece
• Ukrainian: гарма́та (harmáta) — artillery piece
• Urdu: توپ (top) — artillery piece
• Uyghur: توپ (top) — artillery piece
• Uzbek: toʻp — artillery piece
• Vietnamese: pháo — artillery piece
• Vietnamese: đại pháo — artillery piece
• Vietnamese: súng thần công — artillery piece
• Volapük: kän — artillery piece
• Welsh: canon — artillery piece
• Zhuang: bauq — artillery piece
• Czech: kanón — large muzzle-loading artillery piece
• Finnish: kanuuna — large muzzle-loading artillery piece
• Bulgarian: карамбо́л (karamból) — billiard shot
• Czech: karambol — billiard shot
• Greek: καραμπόλα (karampóla) — billiard shot
• Italian: carambola — billiard shot
• Macedonian: карамбол (karambol) — billiard shot
• Polish: karambol — billiard shot
• Russian: карамбо́ль (karambólʹ) — billiard shot
• Finnish: kanuuna — baseball: good throwing hand
• Finnish: heittokäsi — baseball: good throwing hand
• Catalan: canonejar — to bombard with cannons
• Finnish: tykittää — to bombard with cannons
• Finnish: ampua tykillä — to bombard with cannons
• Finnish: tulittaa — to bombard with cannons
• Hungarian: ágyúz — to bombard with cannons
• Italian: cannonare — to bombard with cannons
• Italian: cannoneggiare — to bombard with cannons
• Czech: zahrát karambol — billiards: to play carom shot
• Manx: aavenn — billiards: to play carom shot
• Finnish: tykittää — to fire something rapidly