roon

roon (plural not attested)

1. A shred or remnant (usually of cloth).
   • 1867, Robert Burns, edited by William P. Nimmo, The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Including His Correspondence, Etc.‎^[1], volume 1, Edinburgh: J.R. Osgood and Company, page 89:

     In thae auld times, they thought the moon, just like a sark, or pair of shoon, wore by degrees, til her last roon gaed past their viewing […]

roon (not comparable)

1. Having red or vermilion color.
   • 1885, Asahel Clark Kendrick, editor, Our Poetical Favorites: A Selection from the Best Minor Poems of the English Language‎^[2], volume 1, J.R. Osgood and Company, page 300:

     Her face was like the lily roon.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahun.

• IPA^(key): [rɔːn]

roon

1. leaf

• Robert Busenitz & Daniel Bradbury (2016). Balantak Dictionary – roon. SIL International.

From Old Irish rún.

roon m (genitive singular roon, plural roonyn)

1. rune

• IPA^(key): /run/

roon (comparative rooner, superlative roonest)

1. Alternative form of roond

roon

1. Alternative form of roond
   • 1887, Henry Johnston, “Concluded”, in Martha Spreull, Being Chapters in the Life of a Single Wumman:

     And, when at last he put his airms roon my neck it is nae wonder I buried my face on his shouther and telt him I wud be his wife, and do a' in my power to mak' him happy.

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roon (comparative rooner, superlative roonest)

1. Alternative form of roond

roon (plural roons)

1. Alternative form of roond
2. A rim or border.

roon (third-person singular simple present roons, present participle roonin, simple past roont, past participle roont)

1. Alternative form of roond

• doon
• ruon

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾoˈʔon/ [ɾoˈʔon̪]
• Rhymes: -on
• Syllabification: ro‧on

roón (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜂᜈ᜔)

1. there (far from both the speaker and the person addressed)

• When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, doon is used instead.

• onor