oven

See also: Oven, oven-, and övén

English

A man using an oven of a pizzeria.

Etymology

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (compare Dutch oven, Low German Aven, West Frisian ûne, German Ofen, Danish ovn, Norwegian Bokmål ovn, Norwegian Nynorsk omn, Swedish ugn, Icelandic ofn, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukw- (cooking pot), *Hukʷ-, *ukwnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Old Armenian ակութ (akutʿ), Albanian anë, Latin aulla, olla, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós)).

Pronunciation

Noun

oven (plural ovens)

  1. A chamber used for baking or heating.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

oven (third-person singular simple present ovens, present participle ovening, simple past and past participle ovened)

  1. (transitive) To cook in an oven (colloquial and informal usage only)

Further reading

  • oven on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
  • oven in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • oven in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
  • oven at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams


Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ōven, from Old Dutch *ovan, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *ufnaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈoː.vən/
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  • Hyphenation: oven
  • Rhymes: -oːvən

Noun

oven m (plural ovens, diminutive oventje n)

  1. oven, furnace

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: oond
  • Negerhollands: oven
  • Caribbean Javanese: ofen
  • Indonesian: oven
  • Sranan Tongo: onfu
    • Saramaccan: ónfu

Finnish

Noun

oven

  1. genitive singular of ovi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch oven, from Middle Dutch oven, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈo.vən]
  • Hyphenation: o‧vên

Noun

oven or ovên

  1. oven, a chamber used for baking or heating.
  2. stove, hearth
    Synonyms: tungku, dapur, perapian
  3. furnace
    Synonym: tanur

Alternative forms

Derived terms

Further reading


Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɔ̀ːʋən/

Noun

óvən m anim

  1. ram (male sheep)

Inflection

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing. ôven
gen. sing. ôvna
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
ôven ôvna ôvni
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
ôvna ôvnov ôvnov
dative
(dajȃlnik)
ôvnu ôvnoma ôvnom
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
ôvna ôvna ôvne
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
ôvnu ôvnih ôvnih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
ôvnom ôvnoma ôvni

Further reading

  • oven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Spanish

Verb

oven

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