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.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ɾoˈʔon/ [ɾoˈʔon]
• 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.