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I found sunfrapo in PIV, but I can't find any evidence that this term is actually used for “sunburn”. The only examples I can find seem to refer to heat stroke.

(PIV lists both definitions.)

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In my practical experience I always heard sunbruliĝo.

sunbruliĝo is the sunburn on the skin. sunfrapo I would understand as the german "Sonnenstich", a kind of heat-stroke. It's a sickness, dizziness kind of thing, caused by heating of the brain skin, or something like that.

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    I think that "sunfrapo" is a calque of the French "coup de soleil", which is the usual idiom for "sunbruliĝo".
    – psychoslave
    Commented Feb 2, 2017 at 14:52
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I'm pretty sure that sunbruno is actually suntan and sunbrulo is sunburn.

Bruli is intransitive. I think brulo here must refer to the sensation of burning:

  • Mi sunbrulas. I am sunburnt. (That is, "I am burning on account of the sun.")

  • Mi sunbruliĝas. I am getting sunburnt.

  • Mi havas sunbrulon. I have sunburn.

And it would work the same way for sunbruno.

More generally, a burn is a brulvundo ("burn wound").

Sunbruliĝo is "solar combustion", and is awkward to justify here (unless the metaphor is that your skin has "caught fire"). In any case sunvundo would probably be a better term (Mi sunvundiĝis, etc.)

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  • Is there a term in actual use, though? Of course, I thought of the literal "sunbruno" but it's not listed in PIV and not used in tekstaro.com.
    – Tomaso Alexander
    Commented Sep 15, 2016 at 14:09
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    I just checked Wells's dictionary and the entry for the English word tan is consistent with my examples: (sun)brun-igi, -iĝi, -o.
    – Andrew Woods
    Commented Sep 15, 2016 at 14:14
  • Perhaps I could have worded my question more clearly, but I was trying to ask about actual usage, not necessarily what's proposed in dictionaries. In Krause there's sunbrulumo - but it's not clear whether that one is in actual use either. And I made a typo in my previous comment. I meant that sunbrulo is not listed in PIV. Sunbruno certainly is.
    – Tomaso Alexander
    Commented Sep 15, 2016 at 14:17
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JC Wells in his Esperanto Dictionary translates it as sunbruno, and, as you suggest, sunfrapo is a sunstroke.

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    Sunbruno would be "sun tan", wouldn't it? That's what PIV seems to be suggesting.
    – Tomaso Alexander
    Commented Sep 15, 2016 at 13:55
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    Wells uses the same word for both, probably because he's English. :) But yes, it should really be 'sun tan', and perhaps sunbrulo for a sunburn.
    – Oliver Mason
    Commented Sep 15, 2016 at 13:57

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