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English

Etymology 1
etystub

Pronunciation
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-�n|-�n

Noun
en-noun|s|-

1. context|colour|uncountable a brownish grey colour.

#: <table><tr><td>dun colour: &nbsp;</td><td bgcolor"#DAC8AE?" width"80">&nbsp; </td></tr></table>

Translations
trans-top|colour
Finnish: harmaanruskea
Greek: κα��αν��αιο [kasta�no�fe��o�] n
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Japanese: ���� (������, kogechairo)
Serbian: sivosme�
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Adjective
en-adj|-

1. colour of a brownish grey colour.

Translations
Finnish: harmaanruskea

Derived terms
dun-bar

See also
bawn
durmast oak
Wiktionary_Appendix:Colours|Appendix:Colours

Etymology 2
etystub

Noun
en-noun

1. countable A collector of debts.

#: "Melancholy duns came looking for him at all hours", G. Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London, Ch. 18

Translations
trans-top|A collector of debts
Finnish: perijä, velkoja
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Verb
en-verb|dun|n|ed

1. To ask or beset a debtor for payment.

#: No wonder she is in a bad mood she did nothing but dun customers all day.

Translations
trans-top|to ask for payment
Finnish: periä, velkoa, karhuta
Japanese: ����� (����������, shakkin no saisoku)
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Etymology 3
etystub

Pronunciation
The "u" is long, so the word is also spelled "doon".

Noun
en-noun

1. A valley in the Himalayan foothills, e.g. Dehra Dun.

Etymology 4
etystub

Noun
en-noun

1. countable A newly hatched, immature mayfly

Translations
trans-top|immature mayfly
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Etymology 5
from do

Verb
infl|en|verb|head=dun

1. colloquial past of|do

#: He dun it before and he dun it again.
#: Now, ya dun it!

Category:Colors
Category:Eye dialect
Category:Greys

Dutch

Adjective
infl|nl|adjective|declined|dunne|comparative|dunner|superlative|dunste

1. thin, slender

Kiput

Etymology
From Proto-North Sarawak *daqun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahun.

Noun
dun

1. leaf

Category:Kiput nouns
Category:kyi:Plants

Korean

Han character
dun (屯, �, McCune?-Reischauer: tun)

1. (Translingual) camp
2. (Translingual) station
3. (Translingual) village
4. (Korean) hill, dune

See also
duk (�, McCune?-Reischauer: tuk)

Category:Romanized Hanja readings

Mandarin

Pinyin syllable
dun

1. A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, dūn, dún, d�n, or dùn.

Usage notes
English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Category:Mandarin pinyin

Old English

Etymology
Cognate with Old Irish #Old Irish|dun "hill, w:hill fort|hill fort" Middle Dutch dune#Middle Dutch| dune "sandy hill"

Noun
dūn

1. hill, mountain

Derived terms
ofdune: downwards, literally, "from the hill"

Related terms
tun#Old English|tūn: enclosure, garden, yard; farm; village, town

Descendants
English dune
English down
English London

Category:Old English nouns

Swedish

Noun
dun n

1. down, what grows on young birds

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