pun

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: pŭn
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /pʌn/
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• Ireland, Northern-England: /pʊn/
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• rhymes with -ʌn
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• CMU ARPABET: P AH1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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From Middle English ponnen, ponen, punen, from Old English punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (“fen”).

From Hindi [Term?].

74 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: kalambur — joke or type of wordplay
• Albanian: lojë fjalësh — joke or type of wordplay
• Arabic: لُعْبَة اَلْكَلِمَات (laʕbat al-kalimāt) — joke or type of wordplay
• Arabic: جِنَاس (jinās) — joke or type of wordplay
• Armenian: բառախաղ (baṙaxaġ) — joke or type of wordplay
• Belarusian: каламбур (kalambur) — joke or type of wordplay
• Belarusian: гульня слоў — joke or type of wordplay
• Bulgarian: игрословица (igroslovica) — joke or type of wordplay
• Bulgarian: каламбур (kalambur) — joke or type of wordplay
• Catalan: joc de paraules — joke or type of wordplay
• Chinese Mandarin: 雙關語 /双关语 (shuāngguānyǔ) — joke or type of wordplay
• Chinese Mandarin: 俏皮話 /俏皮话 (qiàopihuà) — joke or type of wordplay
• Czech: slovní hříčka — joke or type of wordplay
• Danish: ordspil — joke or type of wordplay
• Dutch: woordspeling — joke or type of wordplay
• Dutch: woordgrapje — joke or type of wordplay
• Esperanto: kalemburo — joke or type of wordplay
• Esperanto: vortludo — joke or type of wordplay
• Finnish: sanaleikki — joke or type of wordplay
• French: calembour — joke or type of wordplay
• French: jeu de mots — joke or type of wordplay
• Georgian: კალამბური (ḳalamburi) — joke or type of wordplay
• Georgian: ზმა (zma) — joke or type of wordplay
• German: Wortspiel — joke or type of wordplay
• German: Kalauer — joke or type of wordplay
• Greek: λογοπαίγνιο (logopaígnio) — joke or type of wordplay
• Hebrew: מִשְׂחַק מִלִּים (misḥáq milím) — joke or type of wordplay
• Hebrew: לָשׁוֹן נוֹפֵל עַל לָשׁוֹן (lashón nofél 'al lashón) — joke or type of wordplay
• Hungarian: szójáték — joke or type of wordplay
• Hungarian: szóvicc — joke or type of wordplay
• Icelandic: orðaleikur — joke or type of wordplay
• Ido: kalemburo — joke or type of wordplay
• Irish: imeartas focal — joke or type of wordplay
• Italian: gioco di parole — joke or type of wordplay
• Italian: bisticcio — joke or type of wordplay
• Italian: freddura — joke or type of wordplay
• Japanese: 駄洒落 — joke or type of wordplay
• Japanese: 洒落 — joke or type of wordplay
• Japanese: 語呂合わせ (goroawase) — joke or type of wordplay
• Korean: 말장난 (maljangnan) — joke or type of wordplay
• Macedonian: каламбур (kalambur) — joke or type of wordplay
• Macedonian: игра на зборови (igra na zborovi) — joke or type of wordplay
• Malay: jenakata — joke or type of wordplay
• Māori: kupu angarua — joke or type of wordplay
• Norwegian Bokmål: ordspill — joke or type of wordplay
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ordspel — joke or type of wordplay
• Persian: تجنیس (tajnis) — joke or type of wordplay
• Persian: جناس (jenâs) — joke or type of wordplay
• Polish: gra słów — joke or type of wordplay
• Polish: kalambur — joke or type of wordplay
• Portuguese: trocadilho — joke or type of wordplay
• Portuguese: chalaça — joke or type of wordplay
• Romanian: calambur — joke or type of wordplay
• Romanian: joc de cuvinte — joke or type of wordplay
• Russian: каламбу́р (kalambúr) — joke or type of wordplay
• Russian: игра́ слов (igrá slov) — joke or type of wordplay
• Scottish Gaelic: cainnt-chluich — joke or type of wordplay
• Scottish Gaelic: cluich — joke or type of wordplay
• Spanish: calambur — joke or type of wordplay
• Spanish: albur — joke or type of wordplay
• Spanish: retruécano — joke or type of wordplay
• Swedish: ordvits — joke or type of wordplay
• Swedish: ordlek — joke or type of wordplay
• Tagalog: bangkiwi — joke or type of wordplay
• Tagalog: paritugma — joke or type of wordplay
• Tagalog: paandar — joke or type of wordplay
• Telugu: శ్లేష (ślēṣa) — joke or type of wordplay
• Tibetan: ཚིག་རྩེད (tshig rtsed) — joke or type of wordplay
• Turkish: kelime oyunu — joke or type of wordplay
• Yiddish: ווערטערשפּיל (vertershpil) — joke or type of wordplay
• German: kalauern — to make or tell a pun
• Portuguese: fazer um trocadilho — to make or tell a pun
• Portuguese: trocadilhar — to make or tell a pun
• Spanish: alburear — to make or tell a pun