Punとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: pŭn, IPA: /pʌn/
• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA: /pʊn/
• 韻: -ʌn

語源 1

(Can this etymology be sourced?) From 中期英語 ponnen, ponen, punen, from 古期英語 punian, pūnian (“to pound, beat, bray, bruise, crush, grind”), from Proto-Germanic *punōną (“to break to pieces, pulverize”). See pound. As a kind of word play, from the notion of "beating" the words into place.

動詞

pun (third-person singular simple present puns, present participle punning, simple past and past participle punned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To beat; strike with force; to ram; to pound, as in a mortar; reduce to powder, to pulverize.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

     He would pun thee into shivers with his fist.

2. (intransitive) To make or tell a pun; to make a play on words.

   We punned about the topic until all around us groaned.

名詞

pun (plural puns)

1. A joke or type of wordplay in which similar definitions or sounds of two words or phrases, or different definitions of the same word, are deliberately confused.

   Synonyms: paronomasia, play on words

   Hypernym: joke

   Hyponym: antanaclasis

   The pun is the lowest form of wit.

   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter VI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume I, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 124:

     "Certainly, my home at my uncle's brought me acquainted with a circle of admirals. Of Rears, and Vices, I saw enough. Now do not be suspecting me of a pun, I entreat."

     Austen was likely referring to flogging or spanking, then common naval punishments, known as le vice anglais.

派生語

語源 2

From the McCune-Reischauer romanization of Korean 분 (bun), from Chinese 分 (“fen”).

名詞

pun (plural puns or pun)

1. (Korean units of measure) Alternative form of bun (“Korean unit of measure”).

語源 3

From Hindi [Term?].

別の表記

• pund

名詞

pun (plural puns)

1. (India, historical) A certain number of cowries, generally 80.
   • 1864, The Regulations of the Bengal Code in Force in September 1862, page 1019:

     Hackeries and carriages, loaded and empty, 8 annas. Sheep, goats, &c., 1 pun of cowries each.

参照

• Henry Yule; A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903), “pun”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […].

アナグラム

• N-up, NPU, UPN, nup