Kuhn

See also: kühn and Kühn

English

Etymology

• As a German surname, from Kuhn. Compare Kühn, Kuehn.
• As a Jewish surname, variant of Cohen, Kohn.

Proper noun

Kuhn (plural Kuhns)

1. A surname.

Derived terms

• Kuhnian

Further reading

• “Kuhn”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “Kuhn”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “Kuhn”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “Kuhn”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• Kuhn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

German

Etymology

Medieval contraction of the given name Konrad.

Proper noun

Kuhn m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Kuhns or (with an article) Kuhn, feminine genitive Kuhn, plural Kuhns)

1. a surname transferred from the given name

Declension

Declension of Kuhn [masculine // feminine, surname]

	singular						plural
	masculine			feminine
	indef.	def.	noun	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	(ein)	(der)	Kuhn	(eine)	(die)	Kuhn	(die)	Kuhns
genitive	(eines)	(des)	Kuhns, Kuhn1	(einer)	(der)	Kuhn	(der)	Kuhns
dative	(einem)	(dem)	Kuhn	(einer)	(der)	Kuhn	(den)	Kuhns
accusative	(einen)	(den)	Kuhn	(eine)	(die)	Kuhn	(die)	Kuhns

¹With an article.