fen

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Etymology 1

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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

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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.)
    • 1996, Geological Survey (U.S.), National Water Summary on Wetland Resources, →ISBN, page 214:
      Bogs are acidic, nutrient poor, and have a low species diversity, whereas fens are less acidic and have higher nutrient levels and species diversity.
    • 2019 February 19, Sincere Humphrey, Freshwater Microbiology, Scientific e-Resources, →ISBN, page 24:
      Bogs are acidic peatlands, while fens are non-acidic peatlands.
    • 2023 September 26, Rick Cech, Guy Tudor, Butterflies of the East Coast: An Observer's Guide, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 15:
      [...] fens are alkaline. In fact, the precise acidity of a fen depends on the soil through which in-seeping waters have percolated. Northeastern fens vary from somewhat acidic to highly basic (Johnson, 1985, p. 27).
  2. (loosely) Any swamp or mire (especially with negative connotations).
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Etymology 2

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

Noun

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fen (plural fen or fens)

  1. A unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan.
    • 1994, Ronald David Schwartz, “[Martial Law and After] Symbolic competition”, in Circle of Protest: Political Ritual in the Tibetan Uprising, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers Private Limited, published 1996, →ISBN, page 184:
      One poster, which appeared on the Barkhor on 20 May, ridiculed the way neighbourhood committees were recruiting participants: “We paid 30 fen for one stone, but you hire people for 30 yuan for the picnic in the Norbulingka” (“30 fen” — one hundred fen is one yuan — is a joking reference to Chinese accusations that Tibetans were paid 30 fen by splittists for each stone thrown on 1 October 1987).
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Etymology 3

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

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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.
    • 1951 May 21, Winthrop Sargeant, “Through the Interstellar Looking Glass”, in Life[1], 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[2], 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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Etymology 4

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Compare fend.

Interjection

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fen

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

Etymology 5

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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

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fen (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) A kind of mildew that grows on hops.
    • 1769, The Complete Farmer: Or, a General Dictionary of Husbandry[3], 2nd edition, page 339:
      [] whereby the ſtagnating ſap corrupts, and breeds mouldy fen, which often ſpoils whole tracts of, till then, flouriſhing hop-grounds.
    • 1808, Thomas Potts, The British Farmer's Cyclopaedia or, Complete Agricultural Dictionary[4], Scatcherd and Letterman, page 96:
      Among these are reckoned the wire worm; the flea, and the fly; the fen or mould; the mildew ; and what are usually called fire blasts.
    • 1848, John Marius Wilson, editor, The Rural Cyclopedia[5], volume 2, A. Fullarton, page 698:
      The mould, the fen, or the mouldy-fen, prevails more on hop-grounds which are low, moist, and sheltered, than on such as are high, dry, and open []

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Catalan

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Verb

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fen

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

Chuukese

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Adjective

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fen

  1. holy

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Adverb

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fen

  1. past tense marker for verbs
  2. already

Czech

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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fen m inan

  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 []
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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Etymology 2

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Noun

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fen

  1. genitive plural of fena

Further reading

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

Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin fīnitus. Compare Italian fino.

Adjective

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fen (feminine faina)

  1. fine
  2. subtle
  3. pure

Faroese

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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fen n (genitive singular fens, plural fen)

  1. bog, quagmire

Declension

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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

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Franco-Provençal

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Etymology

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Inherited from Latin fēnum.

Noun

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fen m (plural fens) (ORB, broad)

  1. hay

References

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

Friulian

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Etymology

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From Latin fēnum,from faenum.

Noun

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fen m (plural fens)

  1. hay
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Hungarian

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Ugric *pänV-, from Proto-Finno-Ugric *pänɜ (grindstone; grind).[1]

Verb

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fen

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

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Noun

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fen (plural fenek)

  1. fen (unit of currency in China, one-hundredth of a yuan)
    Holonyms: jüan, zsenminpi
    Meronym: csiao
Declension
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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative fen fenek
accusative fent feneket
dative fennek feneknek
instrumental fennel fenekkel
causal-final fenért fenekért
translative fenné fenekké
terminative fenig fenekig
essive-formal fenként fenekként
essive-modal
inessive fenben fenekben
superessive fenen feneken
adessive fennél feneknél
illative fenbe fenekbe
sublative fenre fenekre
allative fenhez fenekhez
elative fenből fenekből
delative fenről fenekről
ablative fentől fenektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
fené feneké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
fenéi fenekéi
Possessive forms of fen
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. fenem fenjeim
2nd person sing. fened fenjeid
3rd person sing. fenje fenjei
1st person plural fenünk fenjeink
2nd person plural fenetek fenjeitek
3rd person plural fenjük fenjeik

References

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  1. ^ Entry #728 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.

Further reading

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

Icelandic

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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fen n (genitive singular fens, nominative plural fen)

  1. fen, marsh, morass

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    Declension of fen
n-s singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative fen fenið fen fenin
accusative fen fenið fen fenin
dative feni feninu fenum fenunum
genitive fens fensins fena fenanna

Istriot

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Etymology

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From Latin faenum.

Noun

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fen

  1. hay

Lombard

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Etymology

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Akin to Italian fieno, from Latin fenum.

Noun

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fen

  1. hay

Mandarin

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Romanization

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fen

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

Usage notes

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  • 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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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fen (plural fennes)

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

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Descendants

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

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Old English

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Noun

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fen m or n

  1. Alternative form of fenn

Old Norse

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Etymology

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From Proto-Germanic *fanją.

Noun

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fen n (genitive fens, plural fen)

  1. fen, bog, quagmire
    mýrar ok fen
    bogs and fens

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References

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  • fen”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Polish

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Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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

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Borrowed from Chinese .

Noun

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fen m inan

  1. fen (unit of Chinese currency)
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adjective

Further reading

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  • fen in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German Föhn.

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fȇn m (Cyrillic spelling фе̑н)

  1. hair dryer
  2. (meteorology) foehn

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Swedish

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Noun

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fen

  1. definite singular of fe

Turkish

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Etymology

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

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Noun

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

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

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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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