name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
pon
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
-
Received-Pronunciation: /pɒn/
-
Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
-
General-American: /pɑn/
-
General-American: /pɔn/
-
rhymes with -ɒn
-
CMU ARPABET: P AA1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A call for forming a set of three identical tiles using a discarded tile.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Japanese
Topics: board-games, games, mahjong
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pung
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
Initialism of passive optical network, technology and standards for fiber-optic broadband access.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, countable, initialism, uncountable
Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prep
Meaning 4
Alternative spelling of 'pon.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of, alternative
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
Clipping of ponteng
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Singlish, abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Chinese surname, variant Romanizations of: * 潘 and 盤 /盘 (pán) (see Pan) * 彭 (see Peng) * possibly Romanized from names such as 邦 (bāng)), monosyllabic personal names.
Borrowed from Japanese 碰 (pon).
Across languages
Translations
5 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Chinese Cantonese: 碰 (pung3) — mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
- Chinese Mandarin: 碰 (pèng) — mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
- Japanese: ポン (pon) — mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
- Japanese: 碰 (pon) — mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles
- Korean: 펑 (peong) — mahjong: a call for a set of three identical tiles