English Online Dictionary. What means oven? What does oven mean?
English
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, Finnish uuni, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Albanian anë, Latin aulla, olla, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós)).
The modern pronunciation shows an occasional sound change in which o is changed to u (compare with the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel).
Pronunciation
- (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈʌ.vn̩/
- (General American, UK) IPA(key): /ˈʌv.ən/
- Rhymes: -ʌvən
Noun
oven (plural ovens)
- A chamber used for baking or heating.
- (colloquial) A very hot place.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
oven (third-person singular simple present ovens, present participle ovening, simple past and past participle ovened)
- (transitive, colloquial, informal) To cook in an oven.
Further reading
- oven on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “oven”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “oven”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “oven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
- Veno, nevo-, veno-
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ōven, from Old Dutch *ovan, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *ufnaz.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈoː.vən/
- Hyphenation: oven
- Rhymes: -oːvən
Noun
oven m (plural ovens, diminutive oventje n)
- oven, furnace
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: oond
- Negerhollands: oven
- → Caribbean Javanese: ofen
- → Indonesian: oven
- → Sranan Tongo: onfu
- → Saramaccan: ónfu
Finnish
Noun
oven
- 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
- oven, a chamber used for baking or heating.
- stove, hearth
- Synonyms: tungku, dapur, perapian
- furnace
- Synonym: tanur
Alternative forms
- open
Derived terms
Further reading
- “oven” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɔ̀ːʋən/
Noun
óvən m anim
- ram (male sheep)
Inflection
Further reading
- “oven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
- “oven”, in Termania, Amebis
- See also the general references
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈoben/ [ˈo.β̞ẽn]
- Rhymes: -oben
- Syllabification: o‧ven
Verb
oven
- inflection of ovar:
- third-person plural present subjunctive
- third-person plural imperative