English

Pronunciation

• SAMPA: /sVn/

Homophone

• son

Abbreviation

Sun.

1. Sunday.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English sunne . Cognates include German Sonne and Latin Sol.

Proper noun

Sun or sun

1. The star at the centre of our solar system.

Translations

• Finnish: Aurinko (Suomi )
• German: Sonne

Noun

sun

1. A star, especially when seen as the centre of a solar system.

Related terms

• sunbath
• sunblind
• sunburn
• sundial
• sunglass (see also hand glass )
• sunglasses
• sunrise
• sunscreen
• sunset
• sunshine
• sunspot
• sunstroke
• sunny

See also

• annular eclipse
• lunar eclipse
• milky way
• sunn
• sunflower
• solar
• solar eclipse

Translations

• Albanian: diell m
• Arabic: شمس (shams)
• Armenian: արեւ (arev)
• Basque: eguzki
• Bosnian: sunce n
• Breton: Heol m, heol m -ioù
• Catalan: sol m (ca)
• Chinese: 日 (ri, ri4), 太阳 / 太陽 (tàiyáng), 阳光 (yangguang, yang2guang1), 恒星 (hengxing, heng2xing1)
• Cornish: howl m
• Czech: slunce n
• Dutch: zon f
• Esperanto: suno
• Estonian: päike
• Finnish: aurinko
• French: soleil m
• Frisian: sinne
• German: Sonne f
• Greek: ήλιος m (ílios)
• Guarani: kuarahy
• Hausa: rānā
• Hawaiian: la
• Hebrew: שמש (Shemesh) f,m, חמה (Hamaa) f
• Hungarian: nap
• Icelandic: sól
• Ido: suno
• Indonesian: matahari , surya , mentari
• Interlingua: sol
• Italian: sole m
• Japanese: 太陽 (たいよう , taiyō) / 日 (ひ, hi)
• Korean: 해 (hae), 태양 [太陽] (taeyang)
• Kurdish: roj , tav
• Latin: sol m
• Lithuanian: saulė
• Macedonian: сонце (sontse)
• Malagasy: masoandro
• Maltese: xemx
• Manchu: (šun )
• Mapuche : anchü
• Masai : ndama
• Mongolian: нар (nar)
• Navajo : johonaa'ei
• Ojibwa : kiizis
• Persian: خورشید (khorshid)
• Polish: słońce n
• Portuguese: sol m
• Quechua: inti
• Romanica: sol m
• Russian: солнце n
• Slovak: slnko n, slnce n
• Slovene: sonce n
• Somali: qorrax
• Spanish: sol m
• Swedish: sol c
• Tagalog: araw
• Tupinambá: kûarasy
• Turkish: güneş
• Welsh: haul m