saun

English

Noun

saun (plural sauns)

  1. A male elephant that is not part of a herd; a rogue.
    • 1810, Decoy Elephants Catching a Male, in Enos Bronson (editor), Select Reviews of Literature, and Spirit of Foreign Magazines, Volume 3, page 123,
      Though on some occasions the mahouts accompany the koomkies up to the saun, yet it is safer, and generally the most sure and easy mode, for them to dismount in some contiguous cover with their blankets and ropes, leading the koomkies to the saun, towards which they proceed in the most cunning style.

Anagrams

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *sakna. Cognate to Finnish sauna and Livvi saunu.

Noun

saun (genitive sauna, partitive sauna)

  1. sauna

Declension
Declension of saun (type leib)
singular plural
nominative saun saunad
genitive sauna saunade
partitive sauna saunu / saunasid
illative sauna / saunasse saunadesse / saunusse
inessive saunas saunades
elative saunast saunadest
allative saunale saunadele
adessive saunal saunadel
ablative saunalt saunadelt
translative saunaks saunadeks
terminative saunani saunadeni
essive saunana saunadena
abessive saunata saunadeta
comitative saunaga saunadega

Middle English

Preposition

saun

  1. Alternative form of saunz

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English sound.

Noun

saun

  1. sound

Volapük

Noun

saun

  1. health
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