Hun

From Old English Hūnas, Hūne (both plural), from Late Latin Hunni, from Koine Greek Οὗννοι (Hoûnnoi), borrowed through Middle Iranian. Cognate with Old Norse húnir, Old High German Hunni. See also etymology of Xiongnu.

Compare Sogdian [script needed] (xwn), Sanskrit हूण (hūṇa), and 匈奴 (OC *hoŋ-nâ) (c. 318 BCE) > *hɨoŋ-nɑ (Eastern Han), which Schuessler (2014:264)^[1] proposes to be transcription of foreign *Hŏna ~ Hŭna. More at Huns.

As a derogatory term for Germans popularized by Rudyard Kipling,^[2] reacting to Germany's proposal that the Royal Navy be used to collect debts from Venezuela.

• IPA^(key): /hʌn/

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• (Northern England, Ireland) IPA^(key): /hʊn/
• Rhymes: -ʌn

Hun (plural Huns)

2. A member of a nomadic tribe (the Huns) who invaded Europe in the fourth century from Central Asia.
4. (figuratively) A vandal, a barbarian, an uncivilized destructive person.
6. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A German.

   Synonyms: Fritz, Jerry, Kraut

   • 1919, Gerald Featherstone Knight, Brother Bosch: An Airman's Escape from Germany‎^[1]:

     Doubtless the first German band to return to England will be composed of the most gentle peace and beer-loving Huns that ever visited our favoured shores.

8. (slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland) A Protestant.

   Synonyms: Prod, Proddy, orangie, Orangeman

9. (slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland) A Rangers Football Club supporter; an Orangeman.^[3]

   Synonym: Orangeman

• Hunlike
• Hunnic
• Hunnish

Borrowed from Khmer ហ៊ុន (hun).

Hun (plural Huns)

1. A surname from Khmer.

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hun is the 35993^rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 623 individuals. Hun is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (73.52%) and White (12.2%) individuals.

• Hun on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Hun”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 2, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 215.

• nuh, unh

From Late Latin Hunni.

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Hun m (plural Hunnen, diminutive Hunnetje n)

1. a Hun, member of the nomadic tribe
2. (figuratively) a barbarian, brute

From Latin Hunni. Possibly a doublet of Xiongnu.

Hun m

1. Huns; alternative form of Huns; a nomadic people originating out of Central Asia that invaded the Roman Empire in the 5th century

Hun m (plural Huns)

1. Hun; a member of the Huns, a nomadic tribe originating out of Central Asia that invaded the Roman Empire in the 5th century

• hunnique

• hun (Föhr-Amrum)
• hönj (Mooring)

From Old Frisian hond. Cognates include hân.

Hun f (plural Hunen)

1. (Sylt) hand

• IPA^(key): /xuːn/, [huːn]

Hun m

1. a male given name

• A. D. Mills (9 October 2003), A Dictionary of British Place-Names‎^[2], OUP Oxford, →ISBN

Hūn

1. nominative/accusative singular of Hūni

• Hun.

Hun (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜈ᜔)

1. abbreviation of Hunyo: Jun

   Coordinate terms: Ene, Peb, Mar, Abr, May, Hul, Ago, Set, Okt, Nob, Dis