She wears her hair in a bun.
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Bun
//bʌn//
Synonyms for "bun" (94 found)
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Closest matches (19)
Strong matches (28)
Related words (47)
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3 entriesSynonyms
1 entriesat location
1 entriescoordinate
1 entriesderived
42 entriesShowing 16 of 42 words.
etymologically related_to
2 entrieshas context
10 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
18 entriesShowing 16 of 18 words.
Translations
186 translations across 71 languages.
Afrikaans
3 entries- bolla noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- bolletjie noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- broodrolletjie noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Albanian
1 entries- simite noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Arabic
3 entries- كحكة noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- كحكة noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- كَعْكَة noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Armenian
1 entries- բուլկի noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Assamese
1 entries- খোঁপা noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Azerbaijani
3 entries- bulka noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- kökə noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- qoğal noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Basque
2 entries- motots noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- opil noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Belarusian
4 entries- бу́лачка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- бу́лка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- пучо́к noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- са́йка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Bengali
1 entries- খোঁপা noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Bulgarian
4 entries- запо́й noun (a drunken spree)
- ки́фла noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- кок noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- сими́д noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Catalan
4 entries- brioix noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- llesca noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- monyo noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- panellet noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Chinese
3 entries- бозы noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- 包仔 noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- 麭 /𮮆 noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 包子 noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- 小圓麵包 /小圆面包 noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- 小麵包 /小面包 noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- 饃 /馍 noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Cornish
2 entries- torthell noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- torthell noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Czech
1 entries- žemle noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Dalmatian
2 entries- pizaraul noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- pizariaul noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Danish
1 entries- bolle noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Dutch
4 entries- bol noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- bolletje noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- broodje noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- knot noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Esperanto
2 entries- bulko noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- hartubero noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Estonian
1 entries- kukkel noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Faroese
1 entries- bolli noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Finnish
2 entries- nuttura noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- pulla noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
French
3 entries- biture noun (a drunken spree)
- chignon noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- petit pain noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Galician
4 entries- bolo noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- caramiñola noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- caroucho noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- chicho noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Georgian
1 entries- ფუნთუშა noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
German
4 entries- Brötchen noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- Haarknoten noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- Hefestück noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- Knoten noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Greek
1 entries- κότσος noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Gujarati
1 entries- અંબોડો noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Hebrew
1 entries- לחמנייה \ לַחְמָנִיָּה noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Hindi
2 entries- छोटी मीठी ब्रेड noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- रोटी noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Hungarian
2 entries- konty noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- zsemle noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Icelandic
1 entries- bolla noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Ido
1 entries- chiniono noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Indonesian
1 entries- konde noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Ingrian
2 entries- muna noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- tuppu noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Irish
3 entries- borróg noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- cocán noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- pocaid noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Italian
4 entries- crocchia noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- michetta noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- pagnotta noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- panino noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Japanese
4 entries- お団子 noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- シニヨン noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- バン noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- ロールパン noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Konkani
1 entries- आंबाडो noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Korean
2 entries- 롤빵 noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- 흰 빵 noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Latin
2 entries- nōdus noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- tutulus noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Latvian
2 entries- bulciņa noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- maizīte noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Lithuanian
2 entries- bandelė noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- ragelis noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Macedonian
3 entries- земичка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- лепче noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- пунџа noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Manx
3 entries- bonnag noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- bunnag noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- doss noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Māori
1 entries- pūtiki noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Navajo
4 entries- bááh nímazí noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- bááh nímazí ʼałtsʼáálgizhígíí noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- tsiiyéél noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- tsiiyééł noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Norman
2 entries- ban'se noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- chîngnon noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- bolle noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- bolle noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- چورك noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Persian
2 entries- بولکی noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- گرده noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Polish
4 entries- bułka noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- drożdżówka noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- kok noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- kołaczyk noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Portuguese
2 entries- coque noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- pãozinho (doce) noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Romani
1 entries- kilka noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Romanian
1 entries- chiflă noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Russian
4 entries- бу́лка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- бу́лочка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- запо́й noun (a drunken spree)
- плю́шка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- bonnach noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- zèmička noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- žèmička noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- žȅmlja noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- же̏мља noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Silesian
1 entries- żymła noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Slovak
2 entries- drdol noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- žemľa noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Slovene
2 entries- žemlja noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- žemljica noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Spanish
4 entries- bolillo noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- bolla noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- bollo noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- chongo (Esp., Guat., Mex.) noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Swedish
1 entries- bulle noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Tamil
1 entries- பொங்கியப்பம் noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Tatar
1 entries- күмәч noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Telugu
1 entries- సిగ noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Turkish
3 entries- hamburger ekmeği noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- topuz noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- çörek noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Ukrainian
4 entries- бу́лка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- бу́лочка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- пучо́к noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
- са́йка noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Volapük
1 entries- bodül noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
Yiddish
3 entries- בולקע noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- זעמל noun (a small bread roll, often sweetened or spiced)
- קאָקס noun (a tight roll of hair worn at the back of the head)
Sample sentences
23 total sentences available.
The next day at the newspaper office he drew a bun which contained a dachshund inside - not a dachshund sausage, but a dachshund.
Source: tatoeba (324974)
Is this supposed to be a currant bun? You almost need to cycle from one currant to another, so few are there.
Source: tatoeba (393846)
He decided that his kielbasa was too dignified for an ordinary bun.
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