fen

See also: fēn, fén, fěn, and fèn

English

Schematic illustration of a fen

Etymology 1

From Middle English fen, fenne, from Old English fenn (“fen; marsh; mud; dirt”), from Proto-Germanic *fanją (compare West Frisian fean, Dutch veen, German Fenn, Norwegian fen), from Proto-Indo-European *pen- (“bog, mire”). Compare Middle Irish en (“water”), enach (“swamp”), Old Prussian pannean (“peat-bog”), Sanskrit पङ्क (paṅka, “marsh, mud, mire, slough”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): fɛn
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun

fen (plural fens)

  1. A type of wetland fed by ground water and runoff, containing peat below the waterline.
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Etymology 2

Noun

fen (plural fens)

  1. unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan
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Etymology 3

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

Noun

fen pl (normally plural, singular fan)

  1. (dated, fandom slang) fans; a plural form used by enthusiasts of science fiction, fantasy, and anime, partly from whimsy and partly to distinguish themselves from fans of sport, etc.
    • 1951 May 21, Sargeant, Winthrop, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life‎, volume 30, number 21, page 127:
      Sad to relate, some of the European delegates were probably insurgents rather than true fen. […] But the Europeans could be counted on to take the long view, and many of them would probably turn out to be real fen and fenne after all.
    • 2016 September 3, lurkertype, “Worldcon 75 Chair Responds”, in File 770‎, Comments:
      So I’m glad the attached hotel block is entirely reserved for disabled fen! Traveling on mass transit is tiring even when everything’s up to code.

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Catalan

Verb

fen

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

Chuukese

Adjective

fen

  1. holy

Synonyms

Adverb

fen

  1. past tense marker for verbs
  2. already

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛn]
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Etymology 1

  1. fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan).
    • 1962, Časopis Národního muzea, volume 131, page 165:
      Čínská poštovní správa v roce 1961 vydala ke Dni armády, tj. k 1. srpnu 1961 dvě známky, a to v hodnotách 8 fenů a 10 fenů […]

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

fen

  1. genitive plural of fena

Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin fine, ablative of finis. 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

Declension of fen
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fen fenið fen fenini
accusative fen fenið fen fenini
dative feni feninum fenum fenunum
genitive fens fensins fena fenanna

Derived terms

  • fenbressa
  • fendíki
  • fenjutur

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin faenum, fēnum.

Noun

fen m (plural fens)

  1. hay

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Finno-Ugric *pänɜ (“grindstone; grind”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈfɛn]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: fen

Verb

fen

  1. (transitive) to sharpen

Conjugation

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References

  1. ↑ Entry #728 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Istriot

Etymology

From Latin faenum, fēnum.

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

  • English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fanją.

Noun

fen n (genitive fens, plural fen)

  1. bog, quagmire
    mýrar ok fen

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Föhn.

Noun

fȇn m (Cyrillic spelling фе̑н)

  1. hair dryer
  2. (meteorology) foehn

Declension

Swedish

Noun

fen

  1. definite singular of fe

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic فَنّ‎ (fann).

Noun

fen (definite accusative fenni, plural fenler)

  1. science

Declension

Inflection
Nominative fen
Definite accusative fenni
Singular Plural
Nominative fen fenler
Definite accusative fenni fenleri
Dative fenne fenlere
Locative fende fenlerde
Ablative fenden fenlerden
Genitive fennin fenlerin

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