paun

See also: pãun and păun

Breton

Etymology

Borrowed from French paon.

Noun

paun m (plural pauned)

1. peacock

Inflection

Mutation of paun

	unmutated	soft	aspirate	hard
singular	paun	baun	faun	unchanged
plural	pauned	bauned	fauned	unchanged

Indonesian

Noun

paun

1. pound sterling, The currency of the United Kingdom

Malay

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pau̯n], [pa.on]
• Rhymes: -au̯n, -un
• Hyphenation: pa‧un

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pound, from Middle English pound, from Old English pund (“a pound, weight”), from Proto-Germanic *pundą (“pound, weight”), an early borrowing from Latin pondō (“by weight”), ablative form of pondus (“weight”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull, stretch”).

Noun

paun (Jawi spelling ڤاءون)

1. A pound:
   1. The pound sterling; the currency of the United Kingdom.
   2. The currency of some countries (Sudan, Syria, and Egypt).
   3. A unit of mass equal to 16 ounces or 0.4536 kilograms.
   4. Jewellery (bracelets, lockets, etc.) made out of gold that are shaped like coins.

Compounds

• paun sterling
• roti paun

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English pound, from Middle English pounde, ponde, pund, from Old English pund (“an enclosure”).

Noun

paun (Jawi spelling ڤاءون, plural paun-paun)

1. A pound; a place for confining animals (buffaloes, cows, etc.) that roam around a lot.

Compounds

• masuk paun

Further reading

• “paun” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Middle English

Noun

paun

1. Alternative form of pown (“pawn”)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• pàn (Sutsilvan)
• pang (Surmiran)
• pan (Vallader)

Etymology

From Latin pānis, pānem.

Noun

paun m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter) bread

Noun

paun m (plural pauns)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Puter) loaf of bread

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian pavone, from Latin pāvō, pāvōnem. Cf. also Romanian păun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pâuːn/
• Hyphenation: pa‧un

Noun

pȁūn m (Cyrillic spelling па̏ӯн)

1. peacock

Declension

Declension of paun

	singular	plural
nominative	paun	pauni
genitive	pauna	pauna
dative	paunu	paunima
accusative	pauna	paune
vocative	paune	pauni
locative	paunu	paunima
instrumental	paunom	paunima

Derived terms

• indijski paun
• zeleni paun

Further reading

• “paun”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Tetum

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese pão.

Noun

paun

1. bread

Related terms

• paun integrál

References

• “paun”, in Dicionário infopédia: Tetum-English, Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025

Welsh

Paun

Etymology

From Latin pāvōnem.

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /paɨ̯n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /pai̯n/

Noun

paun m (plural peunod, feminine peunes)

1. peacock

Derived terms

• cyn falched â phaun (“as proud as a peacock”)
• mantell paun (“peacock (butterfly), Inachis io”)
• mor falch â phaun (“as proud as a peacock”)
• peunaidd (“peacock-like”)
• peunes (“peahen”)
• peunog (“peacock (butterfly)”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of paun

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
paun	baun	mhaun	phaun

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

References

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “paun”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies