don

• (General American) IPA^(key): /dɑn/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /dɒn/

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• Rhymes: -ɒn
• Homophone: Don

From Latin dominus (“lord, head of household”), akin to Spanish don and Italian don; from domus (“house”). Compare dominie.

don (plural dons)

1. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
2. A mafia boss.

• donnish

A contraction of Middle English do on. Compare also doff, dup, dout.

don (third-person singular simple present dons, present participle donning, simple past and past participle donned)

1. (transitive, clothing) To put on, to dress in.

   To don one's clothes.

   • 1886-88, Richard F. Burton, The Supplemental Nights to the Thousand Nights and a Night:

     Now when he had reached the King's capital wherein was Alaeddin, he alighted at one of the Kháns; and, when he had rested from the weariness of wayfare, he donned his dress and went down to wander about the streets, where he never passed a group without hearing them prate about the pavilion and its grandeur and vaunt the beauty of Alaeddin and his lovesomeness, his liberality and generosity, his fine manners and his good morals.

• (put on clothes): doff

• donner

• put on
• wear

• NOD, ODN, nod

• IPA^(key): [dõ˦õ˨]

don

1. day

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

don

1. deep

Borrowed from Spanish don, which is from Latin dominus (“lord”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈdon/
• Rhymes: -on

don m anim

1. (in Italian environment) Originally a title of honour of the Pope, later used for all priests and later for aristocrats.

   don Giovanni

2. Spanish noble title. [19th c.]
3. title of respect in front of Spanish given names

   don José

4. don (maffia boss)
   • 2003, Miroslav Nožina, Mezinárodní organizovaný zločin v České republice, Themis, →ISBN, page 156:

     Roku 1876 mafiánský don Raffaele Palizollo reformoval dosavadní strategii nevměšování se mafie do veřejného života.

     In 1876 mafia don Raffaele Palizollo reformed the previous strategy of mafia not interfering into public affairs.

   • 2012, Hana Pernicová (translator), Kolumbova záhada‎, Ostrava: Domino, translation of original by Steve Berry, →ISBN, page 412:

     Simon se zatvářil stejně jako drogový don před čtyřmi dny.

     Simon had the same expression as the drug mafia don four days ago.

• dona
• doňa

• "don" in Jiří Rejzek, Český etymologický slovník, Leda, 2015, →ISBN, page 153.
• "don" in Věra Petráčková, Jiří Kraus et al. Akademický slovník cizích slov. Academia, 1995, ISBN 80-200-0497-1, page 175.
• don in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• don in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

• dno

don

1. leaf of a plant

From Latin donum.

• IPA^(key): /dɔ̃/

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• Homophones: dom, dons, dont

don m (plural dons)

1. gift, talent, knack
2. gift (present)
3. donation

• “don” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• do’n (superseded)
• ’on (colloquial)

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠənˠ/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /ɡənˠ/

don

1. Contraction of do an.

   Thug mé don bhuachaill é. ― I gave it to the boy.

   Tá mé ag dul don Spáinn. ― I'm going to Spain.

This contraction is obligatory, i.e. *do an never appears uncontracted. It triggers lenition of a following consonant other than d, s, or t.

From Old Irish don (“misfortune, evil”).

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɔnˠ/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠʌnˠ/

don

1. misfortune

Used only in a few stock maledictions such as Do dhon is do dhuais ort!, Don is duais ort!, Mo dhon is mo dhograinn ort! (all basically "bad luck to you!") and Don d’fhiafraí ort! (“Don’t be so inquisitive!”).

From a shortening of an earlier donno, from dom'no (used by Dante), from Latin domnus < dominus.

don m (inv)

1. Father (a title given to priests)
2. A title of respect to a man.

don

1. Rōmaji transcription of どん
2. Rōmaji transcription of ドン

• donne, doyn, do, doon

From Old English dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną.

• IPA^(key): /doːn/
• Rhymes: -oːn

don

1. To do, perform (an activity)
2. To complete, finish
3. To make, create
4. To put, place, position, raise
5. To remove, take away
6. To go or move (in a specified direction)
7. To behave (in a specified manner
8. (auxiliary) To cause (an action or state)
9. (auxiliary) Emphasises the verb that follows it
10. (auxiliary) Stands in for a verb in a dependent clause

As in modern English, several uses of this verb are highly idiomatic.

• Scots: dae
• English: do
• Northumbrian: dee

• “dọ̄n (v.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-12.
• Wright, Joseph, and Elizabeth Mary Wright. An Elementary Middle English Grammar, p193. Oxford University Press, 1923.

From English done.

don

1. have (perfect aspect auxiliary)

   Wi don chop = "We have eaten"

From Proto-Samic *tonë.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈton/

don

1. you (singular)

• Entry 22217 in Álgu database

See the etymology of the main entry.

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtoːn/

dōn

1. inflection of dōt:
   1. accusative singular
   2. genitive singular

From Proto-Germanic *dōną (“to do”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to make, do, place”). Cognate with Old Frisian dūa, duā, dwā (West Frisian dwaan), Old Saxon dōn, doan, duan, duon, Old Dutch duon (Dutch doen), Old High German tuon (German tun); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Ancient Greek τίθημι (títhēmi), Latin faciō, Old Irish dorat (Irish déan), Old Church Slavonic дѣти (děti).

• IPA^(key): /doːn/

dōn

1. to do
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Iċ dyde swā iċ mihte.

     I did what I could.

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 17:12

     Hīe dydon swā hwæt swā hīe woldon.

     They did whatever they wanted.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 41:55

     Gangaþ tō Iosepe and dōþ swā hwæt swā hē ēow seċġe.

     Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.

2. refers back to an earlier verb, as with modern English do
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

     Ǣte þū tōdæġ? Iċ dyde.

     Did you eat today? I did.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"

     Þæt ċild wēox swā swā ōðer ċildru dōþ.

     The child grew as other children do.

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 3:8

     Þā behȳdde Adam hine, and his wīf ēac swā dyde, fram Godes ġesihte.

     Then Adam hid himself from God's sight, and his wife did so too.

3. to make, cause
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Passion of St. Bartholomew the Apostle"

     Þū dydest mīnne brōðor his god forlǣtan.

     You made my brother forsake his god.

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 3:3

     Ġeġearwiaþ Dryhtnes weġ, dōþ his sīðas rihte.

     Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 4:19

     Folgiaþ mē, and iċ dō þæt ġit bēoþ manna fisċeras.

     Follow me, and I'll make you fishers of people.

4. to put
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 26:52

     Þā cwæþ se Hǣlend tō him, "Dō þīn sweord eft on his sċēaðe."

     Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back in its sheath."

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 7:33

     Hē dyde his fingras on his ēaran.

     He put his fingers in his ears.

• Middle English: don, donne, doyn, do, doon
  • Scots: dae
  • English: do
  • Northumbrian: dee

• Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary

• dun

From Latin donum.

• IPA^(key): /dun/

don m (oblique plural dons, nominative singular dons, nominative plural don)

1. gift

• French: don

• IPA^(key): /don/

don

1. Contraction of do + in (“to/for the sg”).

don ?

1. misfortune, evil

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Irish: don

• doan, dūan, duon

From Proto-Germanic *dōną. Compare Old English dōn, Old Frisian dwā, dūa, duā, Old Dutch duon, Old High German tuon.

dōn

1. to do

• Middle Low German: dôn
  • Low German: doon

• dhan

do + an

don

1. to the (singular)

   Chaidh i don bhùth. - She went to the shop.

2. for the (singular)

• Without the definite article and in the plural the form do is used.
• Lenites words beginning with b, c, f, g, m and p.

• Rhymes: -on

From Late Latin dom (“a courtesy title for monks and abbots”), from domnus (“master, sir”), from Classical Latin dominus, from domus (“a house”), from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm (“a house”), from root Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).

don m (plural dones, feminine doña, feminine plural doñas)

1. (obsolete) sir, master, lord
2. A title of respect to a man, prefixed to Christian names

• Don
• Doña
• doña
• dueño
• don nadie

From Latin donum (“a gift”), from dō (“I give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)

don m (plural dones)

1. gift, present
2. gift, talent, knack

• donación

don n

1. a tool, a means

• fordon
• skodon

From Old Turkic ton, from Proto-Turkic *tōn.

don

1. underpants

From Old Turkic toŋ, from Proto-Turkic *tong, *doŋ.

don

1. frost

don

1. second-person singular imperative of donmak

• donma

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɔn˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [jɔŋ˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jɔŋ˧˧]

(classifier con) don

1. Atherurus macrourus, Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine

   Synonym: đon

don ?

1. kind of bread