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3-letter words (2 found)

FEN,NEF,

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EF,EN,FE,NE,

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Definitions and meaning of fen

fen

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛn/
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Etymology 1

From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją, from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”).

See also West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen; also Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).

Noun

fen (plural fens)

  1. A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline, characteristically alkaline. (Contrast bog, marsh, swamp.)
  2. (loosely) Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
    • 1807, William Wordsworth, "England, 1802," collected in Poems (1807):
      Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour: / England hath need of thee: she is a fen / Of stagnant waters […]
    • 1842, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Slave in the Dismal Swamp, from Poems on Slavery:
      In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp / The hunted Negro lay; [...]
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Etymology 2

From Chinese 分 (fēn). Doublet of hoon and fan.

Noun

fen (plural fen or fens)

  2. A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
Translations

Etymology 3

From fan, by analogy with men as the plural of man.

Noun

fen

  1. (fandom slang) a plural of fan used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
Coordinate terms
  • fenne
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Clipping of fennec (“a small fox of the species Vulpes zerda, found in the Sahara (excluding the coast) and having distinctive oversized ears.”).

Noun

fen (plural fens)

  1. (furry fandom, Internet slang, informal) A fennec fox.

Etymology 5

Compare fend.

Interjection

fen

  1. (obsolete) Used in children's games to prevent or forestall another player's action; a check or bar.

Etymology 6

From Middle English *vene, Kentish variant of *fine, from Old English fyne (“moisture, mold, mildew”), from Proto-Germanic *funiz, *fun- (“moisture, mold”); compare vinew.

Noun

fen (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.

Anagrams

  • ENF, nef

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Central) [ˈfɛn]
  • IPA(key): (Balearic) [ˈfən]
  • IPA(key): (Valencia) [ˈfen]

Verb

fen

  1. inflection of fendre:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Chuukese

Adjective

fen

  1. holy

Synonyms

  • pin

Derived terms

  • Raninfen ("the holy day", Sunday)

Adverb

fen

  1. past tense marker for verbs
  2. already

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛn]
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Etymology 1

Noun

fen m inan

  1. fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan)
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

fen

  1. genitive plural of fena

Further reading

  • “fen”, in Kartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech)

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fīnitus. Compare Italian fino.

Adjective

fen (feminine faina)

  1. fine
  2. subtle
  3. pure

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanją.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /feːn/
  • Rhymes: -eːn

Noun

fen n (genitive singular fens, plural fen)

  1. bog, quagmire

Declension

Derived terms

  • fenbressa
  • fendíki
  • fenjutur

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Inherited from Latin fēnum.

Noun

fen m (plural fens) (ORB, broad)

  1. hay

References

  • foin in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
  • fen in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin fēnum,from faenum.

Noun

fen m (plural fens)

  1. hay

Related terms

  • fenoli

Hungarian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛn]
  • Hyphenation: fen
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Etymology 1

From Proto-Ugric *pänV-, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pänä- (“to whet”).

Verb

fen

  1. (transitive) to sharpen, to whet, to hone
    Synonyms: köszörül, élesít, élez
  2. (dialectal) to rub, to smear
    Synonyms: ken, dörgöl
Conjugation
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Noun

fen (plural fenek)

  2. fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan)
    Holonyms: jüan, zsenminpi
    Meronym: csiao
Declension

References

Further reading

  • (to whet): fen in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse fen, from Proto-Germanic *fanją.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛːn/
  • Rhymes: -ɛːn

Noun

fen n (genitive singular fens, nominative plural fen)

  1. fen, marsh, morass

Declension

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin faenum.

Noun

fen

  1. hay

Lombard

Etymology

Akin to Italian fieno, from Latin fenum.

Noun

fen

  1. hay

Mandarin

Romanization

fen

  1. nonstandard spelling of fēn
  2. nonstandard spelling of fén
  3. nonstandard spelling of fěn
  4. nonstandard spelling of fèn

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Alternative forms

  • fenne, ven

Etymology

From Old English fenn; from Proto-West Germanic *fani, from Proto-Germanic *fanją. The "dung" sense is influenced by Old French fien.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fɛn/

Noun

fen (plural fennes)

  1. fen, bog, swamp
  2. dirt, muddiness
  3. dung, feces
  4. (rare) rubbish, refuse
  5. (rare) quagmire, lure

Declension

Descendants

  • English: fen
  • Scots: fen
  • Yola: ven

References

  • “fen, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
  • “fen, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old English

Noun

fen m or n

  1. alternative form of fenn

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fanją.

Noun

fen n (genitive fens, plural fen)

  1. fen, bog, quagmire

Declension

Dervied terms

  • Fenrir
  • Fenris
  • fenvotr (“fen wet, soaked”)

Related terms

  • fúna (“rot”)

Descendants

  • Danish: fen
  • Faroese: fen
  • Icelandic: fen
  • Norwegian: fen
  • Swedish: fen

Further reading

  • Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “fen”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfɛn/
  • Rhymes: -ɛn
  • Syllabification: fen

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Föhn, from Old High German phonno, from Vulgar Latin *faōnius, from Latin Favōnius.

Noun

fen m inan

  1. (meteorology) foehn (warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps)
  2. (meteorology) foehn (any similar wind)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Chinese 分.

Noun

fen m inan

  1. fen (unit of Chinese currency)
Declension
Derived terms

Further reading

  • fen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Föhn.

Noun

fȇn m (Cyrillic spelling фе̑н)

  1. hair dryer
  2. (meteorology) foehn

Declension

Spanish

Verb

fen

  1. inflection of far:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish fen, from Old Norse fen (“fen, marsh, bog”).

Noun

fen

  1. definite singular of fe

Noun

fen

  1. (nature, regional) barren bog
  2. (nature, regional) marshy land, over which water stands at certain times of the year
  3. (nature, regional) sinky pine land
  4. (nature, regional) marshland, moorland
  5. (nature, regional) fen, swamp, marsh, bog

References

  • https://runeberg.org/dialektl/0165.html

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish فن (fen, “kind, variety; art, science”), from Arabic فَنّ (fann), ultimately from Persian پند (pand, “knack, trick”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fæn/

Noun

fen (definite accusative fenni, plural fenler or (archaic) fünun)

  1. (archaic) technic
    Synonym: fen
  2. (dated) science
    Synonym: bilim

Declension

Synonyms

  • ilim
  • bilim

Related terms

  • fennî (“scientific, technical”)
  • darülfünun (“university”)

References

  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “fen”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
  • Redhouse, James W. (1890) “فن”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[10], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1397

Vietnamese

Etymology

Derived from English friend.

Pronunciation

  • (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [fɛn˧˧]
  • (Huế) IPA(key): [fɛŋ˧˧]
  • (Saigon) IPA(key): [fɛŋ˧˧]
  • Phonetic spelling: phen

Noun

fen

  1. (Internet slang) synonym of bạn

Pronoun

fen

  1. (Internet slang) synonym of bạn

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /vɛn/

Noun

fen

  1. soft mutation of men and ben (“wagon”)

Mutation


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