don

See also: Variations of "don"

don - English

Pronunciation

Noun

don (plural dons)

  1. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
  2. An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
  3. A mafia boss.
  4. (MLE) Any man, bloke, dude.

Derived terms

Translations

  • Chinese:
    • Mandarin: 老大 (zh) (lǎodà)
  • Dutch: maffiabaas (nl) m
  • Finnish: mafiapomo, don (fi)
  • Italian: don (it) m
  • Japanese: ドン (ja) (don)
  • Norwegian: mafiatopp m
  • Russian: паха́н (ru) m (paxán), па́хан (ru) m (páxan), дон (ru) m (don) (foreign context)
  • Ukrainian: дон (uk) m (don)

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.
    • To don one's clothes.

Derived terms

Translations


Anagrams

don - Albanian

Alternative forms

  • do (Standard Albanian)

Verb

don (first-person singular past tense dashta, participle dashtë) (Gheg forms)

  1. you want, need
    • A don më shkue? (Gheg)Do you want to go?
  2. you like
    • Rita e don Gjergjin. (Gheg)Rita likes/wants George.
  3. you love
  4. it wants, needs
  5. it likes
  6. it loves

Conjugation

  • Standard Albanian conjugation:
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participle dashur
singular plural
1st pers. 2nd pers. 3rd pers. 1st pers. 2nd pers. 3rd pers.
indicative present dua do do duam doni duan
imperfect doja doje donte donim donit donin
aorist desha deshe deshi deshëm deshët deshën
subjunctive present dua të duash të dojë duam doni duan
optative present daça daç dantë dançim dançit dançin
admirative present dashkam dashke dashka dashkemi dashkeni dashkan
imperfect dashkësha dashkëshe dashkësh dashkëshim dashkëshit dashkëshin
imperative present duaj doni

don - Azerbaijani

Noun

don (definite accusative donnu, plural donlar)

  1. dress (worn by women)
  2. gown (loose, flowing upper garment)
  3. (figurative) raiment, attire, garb, habiliments
  4. appearance, look (of a person)

Declension

    Declension of don
    Possessive forms of don

Derived terms

  • donatmaq (adorn) (dialectal)
    • donanmaq
  • donlu

Adjective

don (comparative daha don, superlative ən don)

  1. frozen, congealed

Noun

don (definite accusative donnu, plural donlar)

  1. frost
  2. ice-covered ground, black ice

Derived terms

don - Bambara

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [dõ˦õ˨]

Noun

don

  1. day

Verb

don (tone dòn)

  1. (intransitive) to enter
  2. (transitive) to put (something into something)
  3. to put on, wear (of clothing)

Derived terms


Predicative

don (tone dòn)

  1. marks the predicate

don - Breton

Adjective

don

  1. deep

don - Casiguran Dumagat Agta

Noun

dön

  1. leaf (of a plant)

don - Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [ˈdon]

Noun

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(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  2. (Spanish noble title)
  3. (title of respect in front of Spanish given names)
    • don José(please add an English translation of this usage example)
  4. don (maffia boss)

Declension

singular plural
nominative don donové
genitive dona donů
dative donovi, donu donům
accusative dona dony
vocative done donové
locative donovi, donu donech
instrumental donem dony

Anagrams

don - Dupaningan Agta

Noun

don

  1. leaf (of a plant)

don - French

Pronunciation

Noun

don m (plural dons)

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

Derived terms

Derived terms

don - Galician

Noun

don m (plural dons, feminine dona, feminine plural donas)

  1. sir, mister

Synonyms

don - Irish

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

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

Contraction

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.

Usage notes

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

Basic form Contracted with Copular forms
an (the sg)na (the pl)mo (my)do (your)a (his, her, their; which (present))ár (our)ar (which (past))(before consonant)(present/future before vowel)(past/conditional before vowel)
de (“from”)dende na desna*de mo dem*de do ded*, det* dárdardarbdarbh
do (“to, for”)dondo na dosna*do mo dom*do do dod*, dot* dárdardarbdarbh
faoi (“under, about”)faoinfaoi nafaoi mofaoi dofaoinafaoinár faoinarfaoinarbfaoinarbh
i (“in”)sa, sansnai mo im*i do id*, it*inainár inarinarbinarbh
le (“with”)leis anleis nale mo lem*le do led*, let*lenalenár lenarlenarblenarbh
ó (“from, since”)ónó na ósna*ó mo óm*ó do ód*, ót*ónaónár ónarónarbónarbh
trí (“through”)tríd antrí natrí motrí dotrínatrínár trínartrínarbtrínarbh
*Dialectal.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

don

  1. misfortune

Usage notes

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!).

Derived terms


Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
don dhon ndon
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

don - Italian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdɔn/
  • Hyphenation: dòn

Noun

don m (invariable)

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

Descendants

  • French: dom

don - Jamaican Creole

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdan/
  • Hyphenation: don

Noun

don (plural don dem or dons dem, quantified don)

  1. don, leader, community leader, crime boss, head of a garrison (leader)
    • Dem figet seh mi a di one don?
      • Have they forgotten that I'm the one true leader?
    • From di word start go roun' seh him want turn di don, a whole heap a man start pree him and warn him fi be careful.
      • As soon as word got around that he wanted to become the community leader, a lot of people took notice of him and warned him to be careful.

Derived terms

  • don dada

don - Japanese

Romanization

don

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

don - Middle English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /doːn/

Verb

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

Usage notes

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

Conjugation

infinitive (to) don, do
present tense past tense
1st-person singular do dide
2nd-person singular dost, dest didest, dide
3rd-person singular doth, deth dide
subjunctive singular do
imperative singular
plural1 don, do diden, dide
imperative plural doth, do
participles doynge, donde don, do, ydon, ydo

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

Descendants


Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dɔn/

Verb

don

  1. (Late Middle English) to put on

Conjugation

infinitive (to) don
present tense past tense
1st-person singular done doned
2nd-person singular donest donedest
3rd-person singular doneth doned
subjunctive singular done
imperative singular
plural1 donen, done doneden, donede
imperative plural doneth, done
participles donynge, donende doned, ydoned

1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Descendants

don - Middle Low German

Verb

dôn

  1. to do

Conjugation

Irregular: present 1sg , 2sg deist (dôst, dṏst), 3sg deit (dôt, dṏt), pl. dôn, dôt, dṏt, preterit 1sg dede, 2sg dêdest, 3sg dede, pl. dêden, past participle gedân, dân

don - Nigerian Pidgin

Verb

don

  1. have (perfect aspect auxiliary)
    • Wi don chop.We have eaten.

don - Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

Noun

don m

  1. (melted) fat, grease
    • Synonym: bez
    • Bîne nanê genimî, duhn bide, bêxe leşê min, ezê sax bim.Bring wheat bread, spread it with fat, put it on my body and I shall be cured [i.e., come to life again].

don - Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈton/

Pronoun

don

  1. you (singular)

Inflection

Inflection of don (irregular)
Nominative don
Genitive

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA: /ˈtoːn/

Determiner

dōn

  1. accusative/genitive singular of dōt

don - Occitan

Noun

don m (plural dons)

  1. gift (something given to another voluntarily)
  2. gift (a talent or natural ability)
  3. donation (a voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause)

don - Old English

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /doːn/

Verb

dōn

  1. to do
    • Hwæt dēst þū?
      • What are you doing?
  2. to make, cause
  3. to put
  4. to add
  5. to treat someone (+ dative) a certain way

Conjugation

infinitive dōn dōnne
indicative mood present tense past tense
first person singular dyde
second person singular dēst dydest
third person singular dēþ dyde
plural dōþ dydon
subjunctive present tense past tense
singular dyde
plural dōn dyden
imperative
singular
plural dōþ
participle present past
dōnde (ġe)dōn

Derived terms

Descendants

don - Old French

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dun/

Noun

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

  1. gift

Descendants

  • French: don
  • Middle English: done

don - Old Irish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: [don]

Article

don

  1. of/from the sg

Alternative forms


Article

don

  1. to/for the sg

Alternative forms


Noun

don (gender unknown)

  1. misfortune, evil

Descendants


Mutation

Old Irish mutation
RadicalLenitionNasalization
don don pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ ndon
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

don - Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Verb

dōn

  1. to do

Conjugation

infinitive dōn
indicative present past
1st person singular dōm deda
2nd person singular dōs dādi
3rd person singular dōd deda
plural dōth dādun
subjunctive present past
1st person singular dōe dādi
2nd person singular dōes dādis
3rd person singular dōe dādi
plural dōen dādin
imperative present
singular
plural dōth
participle present past
dōndi gidōn, dōn

Descendants

  • Middle Low German: dôn
    • Low German: deoen (Paderbornisch), dohn (Münsterländisch); doon

don - Old Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /(ˈ)don/

Noun

don m (plural dones)

  1. (honorific) sir, master; a title prefixed to male given names

Descendants


Noun

don m (plural dones)

  1. gift, talent

Descendants


Adverb

don

  1. Apocopic form of dont; where

Descendants

  • Spanish: do

don - Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /t̪ɔn̪ˠ/
  • Hyphenation: don

Preposition

don (+ dative)

  1. Contraction of do an.
    • Chaidh i don bhùth.She went to the shop.

Usage notes

  • Like the bare article an, don triggers lenition if the following noun begins with f, c and g.

don - Sicilian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /dɔn/ (Standard)
  • IPA: /ɾɔn/ (Rhotacized)
  • Hyphenation: don

Noun

don m (inv)

  1. (obsolete) sir, master, lord
  2. (obsolete) social honorary title referred to men possessing patrimonial assets
  3. a title of respect to a man, especially older, prefixed to first names

Coordinate terms

don - Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /ˈdon/ [ˈd̪õn]
  • Syllabification: don

Noun

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

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

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: don
  • Czech: don
  • Tagalog: Don

Noun

don m (plural dones)

  1. gift, present
  2. gift, talent, knack
    • Cielos, tu tío realmente tiene un don para gastar todo su dinero en el casino, ¿no?
      • Yikes, your uncle really has a knack for blowing all his money in the casino, doesn't he?

Usage notes

Like with the English word "knack", don can be used to describe a positive gift or talent, or a negative one like a bad habit or a neutral tendency to do something.

Derived terms

don - Sranan Tongo

Adjective

don

  1. stupid

Noun

don

  1. stupidity
    • Sranan odo: don no abi dresi.
      • Surinamese proverb: there is no medicine for stupidity.

don - Swedish

Noun

don n

  1. a tool, an implement

Declension

Declension of don 

Anagrams

don - Turkish

Noun

don

  1. underpants
  2. jogging pants
  3. pants
  4. shorts

Noun

don

  1. frost

Verb

don

  1. second-person singular imperative of donmak

don - Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier con) don

  1. Atherurus macrourus, Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine

don - West Makian

Pronunciation

  • IPA: /d̪on̪/

Noun

don

  1. a cape, headland

don - Yogad

Noun

don

  1. leaf (of a plant)

don - Yola

Verb

don

  1. To put on, as clothes, dress.

don - Zazaki

Noun

don

  1. kind of bread

don - Zou

Verb

don

  1. drink
Meaning and Definition of don
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