Sun

Noun

 * 1)  A star, especially when seen as the center of any single solar system.
 * 2) (proper noun) Sun (capitalized): A star which the Earth revolves around.
 * 3) The largest object in the solar system, the Sun is a large ball of hot plasma powered by nuclear fusion.
 * 4) The light and warmth which is received from the sun.
 * 5) Something like the sun in brightness or splendor.

Verb

 * 1)  To expose to the warmth and radiation of the sun.
 * 2)  To warm or dry in the sunshine.
 * 3)  To be exposed to the sun.

Adjectives for Sun
burning; scorching; blazing; devouring; broiling; morning; autumn; tropic; night; meridian; invisible; declining; rising; dipping; lowering; centrifugal; dazzling; unconquered; pitiless; kindling; bronze; sinking; fierce; vanished; setting; earthly; ancient; climbing; ardent; glorious; outdoor; brazen; dying; cloudless; lurid; rounding; smoldering; vertical; slanting; circling; majestic; vernal; merciless; killing; radiant; mimic; descended, glaring; unveiled; temperate; retreating; warmer; conflagrant; sickly; wheeling; early; gaudy; worshiped; garish; insistent; fervent; uncurled; central; bleak; naked; universal; smiting; vaporous; blushing; sleepy; fierce; ruddy; treacherous; unshaded; alien; noontide; withdrawing; scarlet; warm; pleasant; soul-expanding; waning; extinguished; external; earth-invisible (plural).

Verbs for Sun
bask in—; bathe in—; block off—; eclipse—; expose to—; obscure—; protect from—; revel in—; salute—; scorn—; shield from—;squint at—; worship—; —anneals; —ascends; —bakes; —beats down; —blinds; — blisters; —blushes; —breaks; —burnishes; —climbs; —clouds; —clothes; —creeps; — crowns; —dazzles; —declines; —dims; — dips; —dogs ; —draws; —drenches; — eclipses; —fades; —flames; —flays; —floods; —gilds ; —gyrates ; — haunts; —heralds; —melts; —mirrors; — nourishes; —paints; —parches; —peeps out; —penetrates; —pours; —presses down; — radiates; —renews; —retreats; —salutes; — sears; —shadows; —shines; —sinks; — smiles upon; —smites; —stimulates; — strikes; —tinges; —vanishes; —veils; — wearies; —withdraws; —withers.

Thesaurus
daylight, daystar, decade, decennary, decennium, defective year, dehumidify, dehydrate, desiccate, drain, dry, electric light bulb, evaporate, exsiccate, fire, fiscal year, flame, fortnight, glim, hour, illuminant, illuminator, incandescent body, insolate, kiln, lamp, lantern, leap year, light, light bulb, light source, luminant, luminary, lunar month, lunar year, lunation, luster, lustrum, man-hour, match, microsecond, millennium, millisecond, minute, moment, month, moon, mummify, orb, orb of day, parch, phoebus, photosphere, quarter, quinquennium, radiance, radiation, regular year, rub, scorch, sear, second, semester, session, shrivel, sidereal year, smoke, soak up, solar flare, solar prominence, solar wind, solar year, source of light, sponge, star, stars, sun-dry, sunbathe, sunlight, sunshine, swab, taper, term, torch, torrefy, towel, trimester, twelvemonth, weazen, week, weekday, wipe, wither, wizen, year, Amen-Ra, Apollo, Helios, Hyperion, Phoebus, Phoebus Apollo, Ra, Savitar, Shamash, Sol, Surya, Titan, abundant year, academic year, air-dry, anhydrate, annum, bake, bask, bissextile year, blot, brush, burn, calendar month, calendar year, candle, celestial body, century, chromosphere, common year, corona, cure, day.

Etymology
From sunne:, from  (compare West Frisian sinne:, Dutch zon:, German Sonne:), from heteroclitic inanimate. 'sun' (compare Welsh huan: / haul:, Avestan gen. xvəng), genitive of *séh₂wl. More at solar: and at Icelandic sunna:.

Pronunciation

 * Homophones: son
 * Homophones: son
 * Homophones: son
 * Homophones: son
 * Homophones: son

Derived terms
sunbath; sunbathe; sunblock; sunburn; sun cream; sun deck; sundial; sundown; sunflower; sunglass; sunglasses; sun god; sun hat; sun lamp; sunlight; sunny; sun protection factor; sunrise; sunscreen; sunset; sunshine; sun shower; sunspot; sunstroke; suntan; sunup; sun visor.

Proper noun

 * Arabic: شمس
 * Egyptian Arabic:
 * Amharic: ፀሃይ (tsehay)
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: שמשא (šimšā’)
 * Syriac: ܫܡܫܐ (šimšā’)
 * Armenian:, ,
 * Azeri:
 * Baure:
 * Belarusian: сонца
 * Bengali: সূর্য
 * Breton: heol
 * Bulgarian: слънце
 * Catalan: sol
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, ,
 * Mandarin: 太陽, 太阳, 日
 * Min Nan:
 * Coptic:
 * Cornish: howl
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Darkinjung:
 * Dutch:
 * Egyptian:
 * Erzya:
 * Esperanto: suno
 * Estonian: päike
 * Evenki:
 * Faroese: sól
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Gujarati: સૂર્ય
 * Haitian Creole:
 * Hawaiian:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, आदित्य, सूरज, ख़्वुरशेद, रवि
 * Hopi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian: matahari
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Javanese: Serngenge
 * Kannada: ಸೂರ್ಯ
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khmer: ថ្ងៃ
 * Korean: 해, 태양 (太陽), 일
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: خۆر
 * Kyrgyz: күн
 * Lao: ຕາເວັນ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Latvian:


 * Lithuanian:
 * Luxembourgish: Sonn
 * Macedonian: сонце
 * Malay: matahari, mentari
 * Malayalam:
 * Manchu: (šun)
 * Manx: grian
 * Maori: rā
 * Maricopa:
 * Mazanderani:
 * Mongolian: нар
 * Navajo: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: sol
 * Nynorsk: sol
 * Novial: sune
 * O'odham:
 * Occitan: solelh
 * Ojibwe:
 * Old Church Slavonic:
 * Old English: sunne
 * Old Irish:
 * Ossetian:
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish: słońce
 * Portuguese:
 * Pumpokol:
 * Quechua: inti
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: (the л is silent)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: сунце
 * Roman: sunce
 * Sicilian: suli
 * Sinhalese: ඉර
 * Slovak: slnko
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: araw
 * Tajik:
 * Tamil:
 * Taos: thȕléna
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu: సూర్యుడు
 * Thai: ดวงอาทิตย์, พระอาทิตย์
 * Tibetan: ཉི་མ
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: gün, гүн
 * Ukrainian: сонце
 * Urdu: سوریہ, سورج, خورشید, روی
 * Uzbek: quyosh, қуёш
 * Vietnamese: mặt trời
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh: haul
 * West Frisian:
 * !Xóõ: ǁʻân
 * Yiddish: זון
 * Yup'ik:, ,

Noun

 * Afrikaans:
 * Arabic:
 * Basque: iguzki,
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Coptic:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Egyptian:
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto: suno
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: sól
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Greenlandic:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, , ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish:
 * Japanese: ;  ,
 * Kamasau: nginy
 * Kamasau: nginy


 * Korean:, ,
 * Latgalian:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian:
 * Macedonian:
 * Navajo:
 * Norwegian:
 * Novial: sune
 * Ojibwe:
 * Ossetian: ,
 * Pashto:
 * Persian: (xōršid), ,
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romani:
 * Russian: (read: sónce)
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Sotho: letsatsi
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Thai: ดวงอาทิตย์
 * Ukrainian: Сонце
 * Urdu:, , ,
 * Vietnamese: mặt trời, thái dương
 * West Frisian:
 * Yup'ik:, ,


 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Faroese: sól
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שמש
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:, ;  太陽熱


 * Novial: sune
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish: słońce, promienie słoneczne, światło słoneczne
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swahili: miyale
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish: ,


 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: שמש, מאור
 * Lithuanian:


 * Macedonian:
 * Novial: sune
 * Persian: درخشان, خورشیدفش
 * Russian:
 * Swahili: miyale


 * Eshtehardi:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Greek: ,
 * Hindi: सूर्योदय एवं सूर्यास्त


 * Japanese: ;  ;  日の入
 * Swahili: chomoza
 * Swedish: ,

Verb

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: ottaa aurinkoa


 * Swahili: miale ya jua


 * Finnish: lämmitellä auringonpaisteessa (to warm), kuivatella auringonpaisteessa (to dry)


 * Swahili: kauka


 * Finnish: olla auringossa


 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * NUS
 * USN

Conjunction
sun


 * 1) (coordinating) A coordinating conjunction expressing generality
 * En nyt jouda, kun tässä on sitä sun tätä tekemistä.
 * I don't have time for that because I have this and that to do (miscellaneous stuff/things to do).
 * Lautanen oli täynnä makaroonilaatikkoa, makkaraa, salaattia, perunamuussia sun muuta pöperöä.
 * The plate was full of macaroni casserole, sausage, salad, mashed potatoes and other grub.

Pronoun
sun



Pronoun

 * 1)  he or she

Noun

 * 1) grandson

Pinyin syllable
sun



Noun

 * 1) sun

Etymology
From sunne:, from, from heteroclitic inanimate , genitive.