fun

Etymology
From, or , from , probably of  origin, related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, from , but of  ultimate origin. Perhaps related to or influenced by. Compare also 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Compare also 🇨🇬,. More at,.

As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to (1737) and in usage of the adjective. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.

Alternative etymology connected 🇨🇬 with, , , variant forms of , , from , from , from ,. If so, then cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,.

Noun

 * 1) Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
 * 2) Playful, often noisy, activity.
 * 1) Playful, often noisy, activity.
 * 1) Playful, often noisy, activity.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَرَح, تَرْفِيه, تَسْلِيَة
 * Egyptian Arabic: تَرْفِيه
 * South Levantine Arabic: تَرْفِيه, تسلية
 * Syrian Arabic: تسلية
 * Armenian: ,
 * Assamese: ধেমালি, উলাহ-বিলাহ, আমোদ
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: ŝercado
 * Estonian: lõbus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Georgian: გართობა
 * German:, ,
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:, , , ,  ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: spraoi, craic, spórt, áibhéar, aiteas
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, , 面白さ
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: بۆ ھەوەس, رابواردن
 * Ladin: hez
 * Latin: delicia
 * Latvian: jautri
 * Lithuanian: linksma
 * Luxembourgish: Amüsement, Spaass
 * Macedonian: забава, разонода
 * Malay: seronok
 * Maltese: gost
 * Navajo: zhǫʼ
 * Norwegian:
 * Ottoman Turkish: جنبش, كیف
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: Spos
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:, , ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: spòrs, fealla-dhà
 * Serbo-Croatian: ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: поті́ха, заба́ва,
 * Urdu: مزہ
 * Volapük:
 * West Flemish: leute
 * Yiddish: שפּאַס


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: ھەوەس
 * Latin:
 * Norwegian:
 * Plautdietsch: Spos
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: spòrs, dibhearsan

Adjective

 * 1)  Enjoyable or amusing.
 * We had a fun time at the party.
 * He is such a fun person to be with.
 * 1) * 2016 January 11, Tom Bateman, quoted in Nigel Hunt, "Jekyll and Hyde, TV revamp of Robert Louis Stevenson classic, debuts on CBC-TV" CBC News, Canada:
 * He's the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play
 * 1)  Whimsical or flamboyant.
 * This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.

Usage notes

 * Note that, prescriptively, the adjectival use of fun, instead of funny as in a funny movie, is often considered unacceptable in formal contexts. This includes censure of the comparative and superlative funner and funnest, but equally constructions such as very fun (rather than, say, a lot of fun). For more, see Quinion's discussion.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَرِح, مُسَلٍّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: ممتع, مُسَلِّي‎
 * North Levantine Arabic: بِسلّي
 * South Levantine Arabic: ممتع, مُسَلِّي‎, بِسلّي
 * Armenian: ,
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 好玩
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , , (Flanders)
 * Esperanto: amuza
 * Estonian: lõbus
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Georgian: გართობა
 * German:, ; to be fun:
 * Hebrew: מהנה, כייפי
 * Hungarian:, , ,  poénos, ,
 * Interlingua: amusante
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Korean: ,
 * Lao: ມ່ວນ
 * Latin: dēlectābilis
 * Latvian: jautri
 * Lithuanian: linksma
 * Luxembourgish: flott
 * Macedonian: забавен, разоноден
 * Malay: seronok
 * Polish: bawny ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, ,
 * Tagalog: masaya
 * Thai: ,
 * Turkish: ,
 * Volapük:

Verb

 * 1)  To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
 * Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: закачам се
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: laskea leikkiä, ,
 * French:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Swedish:

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) owner

Verb

 * 1) give
 * 2) choke, squeeze, strangle, throttle
 * 3) scatter, strew
 * 4) sew

Preposition

 * 1) for, on behalf of