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move to sidebar hide Beginning 1 English Toggle English subsection 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Noun 1.2.1.1 Derived terms 1.2.1.2 Related terms 1.2.1.3 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Derived terms 1.3.1.2 Translations 1.4 Etymology 3 1.4.1 Noun 1.4.1.1 Derived terms 1.4.1.2 Translations 1.4.2 Verb 1.4.2.1 Derived terms 1.4.2.2 Translations 1.5 Etymology 4 1.5.1 Noun 1.5.1.1 Synonyms 1.5.1.2 Translations 1.6 Etymology 5 1.6.1 Noun 1.7 Etymology 6 1.7.1 Noun 1.7.1.1 Derived terms 1.8 Etymology 7 1.8.1 Noun 1.9 References 1.10 See also 1.11 Anagrams 2 Angloromani Toggle Angloromani subsection 2.1 Alternative forms 2.2 Etymology 2.3 Pronunciation 2.4 Noun 2.4.1 Derived terms 2.5 References 3 Cumbric Toggle Cumbric subsection 3.1 Etymology 3.2 Noun 3.3 References 4 Danish Toggle Danish subsection 4.1 Etymology 1 4.1.1 Pronunciation 4.1.2 Noun 4.1.2.1 Declension 4.2 Etymology 2 4.2.1 Adjective 5 Dutch Toggle Dutch subsection 5.1 Etymology 5.2 Pronunciation 5.3 Noun 5.3.1 Derived terms 5.3.2 Descendants 5.4 Anagrams 6 Haitian Creole Toggle Haitian Creole subsection 6.1 Pronunciation 6.2 Etymology 1 6.2.1 Noun 6.2.1.1 Derived terms 6.3 Etymology 2 6.3.1 Noun 6.4 References 7 Indonesian Toggle Indonesian subsection 7.1 Pronunciation 7.2 Etymology 1 7.2.1 Noun 7.3 Etymology 2 7.3.1 Verb 7.4 Further reading 8 Japanese Toggle Japanese subsection 8.1 Romanization 9 Mandarin Toggle Mandarin subsection 9.1 Romanization 9.1.1 Usage notes 10 Mapudungun Toggle Mapudungun subsection 10.1 Verb 11 Middle English Toggle Middle English subsection 11.1 Etymology 1 11.1.1 Noun 11.2 Etymology 2 11.2.1 Alternative forms 11.2.2 Pronunciation 11.2.3 Noun 11.2.3.1 Related terms 11.2.3.2 Descendants 11.2.3.3 References 12 Mindiri Toggle Mindiri subsection 12.1 Noun 12.2 Further reading 13 Mokilese Toggle Mokilese subsection 13.1 Noun 13.1.1 Inflection 14 Norwegian Bokmål Toggle Norwegian Bokmål subsection 14.1 Etymology 14.2 Adjective 14.3 References 15 Norwegian Nynorsk Toggle Norwegian Nynorsk subsection 15.1 Etymology 15.2 Adjective 15.3 References 16 Old Cornish Toggle Old Cornish subsection 16.1 Etymology 16.2 Noun 17 Portuguese Toggle Portuguese subsection 17.1 Etymology 17.2 Pronunciation 17.3 Noun 17.4 References 18 Rade Toggle Rade subsection 18.1 Etymology 18.2 Noun 19 Romani Toggle Romani subsection 19.1 Pronoun 19.1.1 See also 20 Tok Pisin Toggle Tok Pisin subsection 20.1 Etymology 1 20.1.1 Noun 20.2 Etymology 2 20.2.1 Noun 20.3 Etymology 3 20.3.1 Noun 21 Volapük Toggle Volapük subsection 21.1 Noun 21.1.1 Declension 22 Welsh Toggle Welsh subsection 22.1 Etymology 22.2 Pronunciation 22.3 Noun 22.3.1 Derived terms 22.4 Adjective 22.5 Mutation 22.6 References Toggle the table of contentspen
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[ edit ]Pronunciation
[ edit ] ( Received Pronunciation , General American ) IPA ( key ) : /pɛn/ Audio ( General American ) : ( file ) Audio ( US , Inland Northern American ) : ( file ) ( pin – pen merger ) IPA ( key ) : /pɪn/ Homophone : pin ( pin – pen merger ) Rhymes: -ɛnEtymology 1
[ edit ]English Wikipedia has an article on: pen (enclosure) Wikipedia
From Middle English pen , penne ( “ enclosure for animals ” ) , from Old English penn ( “ enclosure, fold, pen ” ) , from Proto-Germanic *pennō , *pannijō ( “ pin, bolt, nail, tack ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *bend- ( “ pointed peg, nail, edge ” ) . Related to pin .
Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to “enclosure for persons” (1845), later influenced by penitentiary ( “ prison ” ) , being analyzed as an abbreviation (1884). [ 1 ]
Noun
[ edit ]pen ( plural pens )
An enclosure ( enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle . There are two steers in the third pen . ( slang ) A penitentiary , i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons. They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again. ( baseball ) The bullpen . Two righties are up in the pen .Derived terms
[ edit ] blast pen bullpen crush pen goose-pen hogpen Pen Mill ( or perhaps from Etymology 3 ) potato pen shuck penRelated terms
[ edit ] pinTranslations
[ edit ] enclosure (enclosed area) for animals Albanian: vathë (sq) , thark (sq) Arabic: زَرِيبَة f ( zarība ) , حَظِيرَة f ( ḥaẓīra ) Armenian: ոչխարանոց (hy) ( očʻxaranocʻ ) Basque: eskorta Belarusian: заго́н m ( zahón ) Bulgarian: коша́ра (bg) f ( košára ) Catalan: corral (ca) m Chinese: Hokkien: 牢 (zh-min-nan) ( tiâu ) , 稠 ( tiâu ) ( toponymic ) Mandarin: 圈 (zh) ( juàn ) , 欄圈 / 栏圈 (zh) ( lánquān ) Czech: výběh m , ohrada (cs) f Dutch: ren (nl) m , kraal (nl) c Esperanto: kralo (eo) Fataluku: loho Finnish: karsina (fi) , tarha (fi) French: enclos (fr) m Galician: curral (gl) m German: Pferch (de) m , Zwinger (de) m Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌰 m ( garda ) Greek: μαντρί (el) n ( mantrí ) , στάνη (el) f ( stáni ) , στρούγκα (el) f ( stroúgka ) Ancient: μάνδρα f ( mándra ) , σηκός m ( sēkós ) Hittite: 𒀀𒊭𒀀𒌋𒅈 ( a-ša-a-u-ar ) Hungarian: karám (hu) , ketrec (hu) Icelandic: kví (is) f , tröð f , stía f , rétt f Ingrian: karsina Irish: cró m , mainnear f Italian: recinto (it) m , chiuso (it) m , ( for sheep ) ovile (it) m Japanese: ペン (ja) ( Pen ) Khmer: ឋានវតី , ទ្រុង (km) ( trung ) Lao: ເລົ້າ (lo) ( lao ) Latin: hara f Macedonian: тр́ло n ( tŕlo ) ( for sheep ) , ко́тар m ( kótar ) / ко́тара f ( kótara ) ( for cattle ) , Maori: rāihe , pākaka Norwegian: Bokmål: innhegning (no) m or f , inngjerding m or f , kve m or f Nynorsk: innhegning f , inngjerding f , kve f Ottoman Turkish: آغل ( ağıl ) , ماندره ( mandra ) Persian: زاغد ( zâğad ) Polish: wybieg (pl) m Portuguese: curral (pt) m , cercado (pt) m Romanian: țarc (ro) n Russian: заго́н (ru) m ( zagón ) , коша́ра (ru) f ( košára ) ( sheepfold ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: обор m , тор m Roman: obor (sh) m , tor (sh) m Slovak: výbeh (sk) m Spanish: corral (es) m Swahili: zizi (sw) class 5/6 Swedish: hage (sv) c Tetum: luhan Thai: คอก (th) ( kɔ̂ɔk ) , เล้า (th) ( láo ) Ukrainian: загі́н m ( zahín ) Walloon: eclôs (wa) m penitentiary — see penitentiary (baseball) bullpen — see bullpenEtymology 2
[ edit ]From Middle English pennen , from Old English *pennian ( “ to close, lock, bolt ” , attested in onpennian ( “ to open ” ) ) , derived from penn (see above). Akin to Low German pennen ( “ to secure a door with a bolt ” ) .
Verb
[ edit ]pen ( third-person singular simple present pens , present participle penning , simple past and past participle penned or pent )
( transitive ) To enclose in a pen . 1667 , John Milton , “Book IV”, in Paradise Lost. [ … ] , London: [ … ] [ Samuel Simmons ], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [ … ] ; [ a ] nd by Robert Boulter [ … ] ; [ a ] nd Matthias Walker, [ … ] , →OCLC ; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [ … ] , London: Basil Montagu Pickering [ … ] , 1873 , →OCLC : Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.Derived terms
[ edit ] pen up pent pent-upTranslations
[ edit ] to enclose Bulgarian: вкарвам в кошара ( vkarvam v košara ) Finnish: karsinoida , sulkea karsinaan , sulkea selliin German: einsperren (de) , einpferchen (de) Greek: μαντρώνω (el) ( mantróno ) Italian: recintare (it) Norwegian: Bokmål: innhegne Nynorsk: innhegne Portuguese: prender (pt) , enclausurar (pt) Russian: запира́ть (ru) impf ( zapirátʹ ) , запере́ть (ru) pf ( zaperétʹ ) , заключа́ть (ru) impf ( zaključátʹ ) , заключи́ть (ru) pf ( zaključítʹ )Etymology 3
[ edit ]A ballpoint pen , showing assembly.
From Middle English penne , from Anglo-Norman penne , from Old French penne , from Latin penna ( “ feather ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- ( “ feather, wing ” ) , from *peth₂- ( “ to rush, fly ” ) (from which petition ). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra- , from which Ancient Greek πτερόν ( pterón , “ wing ” ) (whence pterodactyl ), Sanskrit पत्रम् ( patram , “ wing, feather ” ) , Old Church Slavonic перо ( pero , “ pen ” ) , Old Norse fjǫðr , Old English feðer (Modern English feather ); [ 1 ] note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.
Doublet of panne , penna , and pinna . See feather and πέτομαι ( pétomai ) for more.
Noun
[ edit ] English Wikipedia has an article on: pen Wikipediapen ( plural pens )
A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks. He took notes with a pen . ( figurative ) A writer, or their style. He has a sharp pen . 1655 , Thomas Fuller , The Church-history of Britain; [ … ] , London: [ … ] Iohn Williams [ … ] , →OCLC , (please specify |book=I to XI) : those learned pens ( colloquial ) Marks of ink left by a pen. He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt. A light pen . ( zoology ) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid , shaped like a pen. 2017 , Danna Staaf, Squid Empire , ForeEdge, →ISBN , page 117 : A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took. ( now rare , poetic , dialectal ) A feather , especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc. 1590 , Edmund Spenser , “ (please specify the book) ”, in The Faerie Queene. [ … ] , London: [ … ] [ John Wolfe ] for William Ponsonbie , →OCLC : And eke the pennes , that did his pineons bynd,Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd,
With which whenas him liſt the ayre to beat [ … ] ( poetic ) A wing . 1667 , John Milton , “ (please specify the page number) ”, in Paradise Lost. [ … ] , London: [ … ] [ Samuel Simmons ], and are to be sold by Peter Parker [ … ] ; [ a ] nd by Robert Boulter [ … ] ; [ a ] nd Matthias Walker, [ … ] , →OCLC ; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: [ … ] , London: Basil Montagu Pickering [ … ] , 1873 , →OCLC : but feather'd soon and fledge
They summed their pens , and soaring the air sublime A syringe -like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine . ( See Injector pen . ) 2023 August 29, Geri Krotow, A Wasp in the Woods , Tule Publishing, →ISBN : "I'm sure she had more than one EpiPen [ … ] " "But she didn't have one when she got stung or she'd have used it." By all appearances, Mariah died in the woods, [ … ] If she managed to grab the pen found under her leg from her bag or pocket, she never discharged it. But Crystal doesn't have these details. "Doesn't it make sense that she kept an extra pen in her cupboard, and one in her bag? The extra pen fell out, is all." Short for vapor pen ( “ electronic cigarette ” ) . a dab pen ; a wax pen
Derived terms
[ edit ] 3D pen ball pen ball-point pen beard pen border pen bow pen brush pen bull pen cartridge pen conductive pen dab pen dip one's pen in someone's inkwell dip pen don't dip your pen in company ink electric pen eraser pen feather pen felt pen felt-tipped pen felt-tip pen fountain pen fude-pen fude pen gel pen geometric pen glass dip pen glass pen goose-pen goose pen ink pen J pen keelyvine pen knight of the pen laser pen lettering pen marker pen marking pen music pen nib pen pen and ink pen-and-ink money pen-and-paper pen and paper pen-and-wash pen cancellation pen drive pen-driver pen feather penfriend pen gun pen licence penmanship pen-mate pen name pen painting pen pal pen pencil pen picture pen portrait pen-pusher pen register pen shell pen spinning pen-tailed treeshrew pentel pen penthusiasm pen torch poison pen poison-pen letter put pen to paper quill pen reed pen ruling pen sea pen set pen to paper shading pen slip of the pen stylographic pen tactical pen technical pen the pen is mightier than the sword touch pen vape pen vapor pen veto pen you don't dip your pen in company ink you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell you don't dip your pen in the company's ink you don't dip your pen in the inkwellTranslations
[ edit ] writing tool Abkhaz: аҩы́га ( ajʷə́ga ) Afrikaans: pen Albanian: stilolaps (sq) m Amharic: ብዕር ( bəʿr ) , እስክርቢቶ ( ʾəskərbito ) Arabic: قَلَم (ar) m ( qalam ) , قَلَم حِبْر m ( qalam ḥibr ) Egyptian Arabic: قلم m ( ʔalam ) Hijazi Arabic: قلم m ( galam ) Moroccan: ستيلو m ( stīlu ) Armenian: գրիչ (hy) ( gričʻ ) Assamese: কলম ( kolom ) , কাপ ( kap ) , লিখনি ( likhoni ) Asturian: bolígrafu (ast) m Azerbaijani: qələm (az) , pero (az) , ruçka Bashkir: ҡәләм ( qələm ) Basque: luma Belarusian: ру́чка f ( rúčka ) , пяро́ n ( pjaró ) Bengali: কলম (bn) ( kolom ) , লিখনী ( likhoni ) Bulgarian: писа́лка (bg) f ( pisálka ) , перо́ (bg) n ( peró ) Burmese: ကလောင် (my) ( ka.laung ) , ဘောပင် ( bhau:pang ) ( ballpoint pen ) Buryat: гуурһан ( guurhan ) Carpathian Rusyn: ру́чка f ( rúčka ) Catalan: bolígraf (ca) m Chechen: язолг ( jazolg ) , ручка ( ručka ) Chinese: Cantonese: 筆 / 笔 (yue) ( bat 1 ) Eastern Min: 筆 / 笔 ( bék ) Hakka: 筆 / 笔 ( pit ) , 鋼筆 / 钢笔 ( kong-pit ) Hokkien: 筆 / 笔 (zh-min-nan) ( pit ) Jin: 鋼筆 / 钢笔 ( gon 1 bieh 4 ) Mandarin: 鋼筆 / 钢笔 (zh) ( gāngbǐ ) ( fountain pen ) , 筆 / 笔 (zh) ( bǐ ) ( also writing brush ) , 圓珠筆 / 圆珠笔 (zh) ( yuánzhūbǐ ) ( ballpoint pen ) Wu: 筆 / 笔 Xiang: 鋼筆 / 钢笔 ( gan 1 bi 6 ) Chuvash: калем ( kalem ) Coptic: ⲕⲁϣ m ( kaš ) Cornish: pluven f Czech: pero (cs) n Danish: pen (da) c Dhivehi: ގަލަން (dv) ( galan̊ ) Dutch: pen (nl) f Egyptian:( ꜥr m ) Esperanto: plumo (eo) , globkrajono Estonian: sulepea , sulg (et) , pastapliiats (et) ( ballpoint pen ) , pastakas (et) ( ballpoint pen ) Faroese: pennur m Finnish: kynä (fi) , mustekynä (fi) French: plume (fr) f , stylo (fr) m Fula: Adlam: 𞤧𞤫𞤼𞥆𞤵𞤺𞤮𞤤 Roman: settugol Galician: bolígrafo (gl) m Georgian: კალამი ( ḳalami ) , პასტა ( ṗasṭa ) German: Kugelschreiber (de) m ( ballpoint pen ) , Stift (de) m , Federhalter (de) m , Füllhalter (de) m ( fountain pen ) , Feder (de) f , Kuli (de) m ( colloquial ) Greek: στυλό (el) n ( styló ) , στιλό (el) n ( stiló ) Ancient: γραφίς f ( graphís ) Gujarati: કલમ (gu) f ( kalam ) , પેન ? ( pen ) Hausa: alƙalami Hebrew: עֵט (he) m ( et ) Hindi: लेखनी (hi) f ( lekhnī ) , क़लम f ( qalam ) , पेन (hi) m ( pen ) Hungarian: toll (hu) , irón (hu) , golyóstoll (hu) , töltőtoll (hu) Icelandic: penni (is) m Ido: plumo (io) Indonesian: pen (id) , pena (id) Interlingua: penna Irish: peann (ga) m Italian: penna (it) f Japanese: ペン (ja) ( pen ) , ボールペン (ja) ( bōrupen ) ( ballpoint pen ) , 万年筆 (ja) ( まんねんひつ, mannenhitsu ) ( fountain pen ) Kalmyk: бичүр ( biçür ) , ручк ( ruçk ) Kannada: ಪೆನ್ ( pen ) Kazakh: қалам (kk) ( qalam ) , қаламсап ( qalamsap ) Khmer: ប៉ាកកា (km) ( paakkaa ) , ដងប៉ាកកា ( dɑɑng paakkaa ) , ស្ទីឡូ ( stiilou ) , លេខនី (km) ( leikhaʼnii ) , ប៊ិច ( bɨc ) Kikuyu: karamu Korean: 펜 (ko) ( pen ) , 볼펜 (ko) ( bolpen ) ( ballpoint pen ) , 만년필(萬年筆) (ko) ( mannyeonpil ) ( fountain pen ) , 원주필(圓珠筆) (ko) ( wonjupil ) ( ballpoint pen, North Korea ) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: پێنووس (ckb) ( pênûs ) Northern Kurdish: pênûs (ku) , qelem (ku) Kyrgyz: калем (ky) ( kalem ) , калемсап (ky) ( kalemsap ) , жазгыч (ky) ( jazgıc ) Lao: ປາກກາ ( pāk kā ) , ບິກ (lo) ( bik ) , ປາກໄ່ກ່ ( pāk kai ) , ສໍປາກກາ ( sǭ pāk kā ) Latin: calamus (la) m Latvian: pildspalva f Lithuanian: rašiklis m , plunksna (lt) f Luganda: bayiro Luhya: ekalamu Luxembourgish: Stëft m Macedonian: пенкало n ( penkalo ) Malay: pen mata , pen (ms) , pena , kalam (ms) Malayalam: പേന (ml) ( pēna ) Maltese: pinna f Maori: pene Marathi: लेखणी (mr) f ( lekhṇī ) Meru: karamu Mokilese: pehn Mongolian: Cyrillic: үзэг (mn) ( üzeg ) Mongolian: ᠦᠵᠦᠭ ( üǰüg ) Navajo: bee akʼeʼelchíhí tóhígíí Nepali: कलम (ne) ( kalam ) , पेन ( pen ) Ngazidja Comorian: kalamu class 9 / 10 Norman: plieunme f ( Jersey ) , plleume f ( Guernsey ) Norwegian: Bokmål: penn (no) m Nynorsk: penn m Odia: କଲମ (or) ( kalama ) Old English: feþer f Oromo: kobbee Ossetian: фыссӕн ( fyssæn ) , ручкӕ ( ruḱkæ ) Ottoman Turkish: قلم ( kalem ) , خامه ( hame ) Pannonian Rusyn: писадло n ( pisadlo ) , пирко n ( pirko ) Pashto: قلم (ps) m ( qalam ) , ليکاړی ( līkāṛay ) Persian: Classical Persian: قَلَم ( qalam ) , خْوَدْکَار ( xwadkār ) Dari: قَلَم ( qalam ) , خوَدْکَار ( xudkār ) Iranian Persian: قَلَم ( ğalam ) , خودْکار ( xodkâr ) Polish: pióro (pl) n , długopis (pl) m inan Portuguese: caneta (pt) f Punjabi: ਕਲਮ f ( kalam ) , ਕ਼ਲਮ f ( qalam ) Shahmukhi: قلم f ( qalam ) Quechua: qillqana Rade: plim Romanian: stilou (ro) n , pix (ro) n ( ballpoint pen ) Russian: ру́чка (ru) f ( rúčka ) , автору́чка (ru) f ( avtorúčka ) , перо́ (ru) n ( peró ) , ша́риковая ру́чка (ru) f ( šárikovaja rúčka ) ( ballpoint pen ) Sanskrit: लेखनी (sa) f ( lekhanī ) Scottish Gaelic: peann m Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: пѐро n , хе́мӣјска̄ о̀ло̄вка f ( ballpoint pen, Bosnia and Serbia ) , ке́мӣјска̄ о̀ло̄вка f ( ballpoint pen, Croatia ) , пенка́ла f Roman: pèro (sh) n , hémījskā òlōvka f ( ballpoint pen, Bosnia and Serbia ) , kémījskā òlōvka f ( ballpoint pen, Croatia ) , penkála (sh) f Sinhalese: පෑන (si) ( pǣna ) Slovak: pero n Slovene: pero (sl) n Somali: qalin (so) Spanish: pluma (es) f ( not a ballpoint pen ) , bolígrafo (es) m , boli (es) m ( colloquial, short form for bolígrafo ) , lapicera f , lapicero (es) m , esfero (es) m , lapiz de pasta m Swahili: kalamu (sw) class 9/10 Swedish: penna (sv) c , bläckpenna (sv) c Tagalog: pluma Tajik: қалам (tg) ( qalam ) , ручка (tg) ( ručka ) , хом ( xom ) , худкор ( xudkor ) Tamil: பேனா (ta) ( pēṉā ) , எழுதுகோல் (ta) ( eḻutukōl ) Tatar: каләм (tt) ( qaläm ) Telugu: పెన్ను ( pennu ) , కలము (te) ( kalamu ) , కలం (te) ( kalaṁ ) Thai: ปากกา (th) ( bpàak-gaa ) Tibetan: སྨྱུག་གུ ( smyug gu ) Tigrinya: ብርዒ ? ( bərʿi ) , ፒሮ ? ( piro ) Turkish: kalem (tr) , yazgaç (tr) Turkmen: ruçka , agyl (tk) Tuvan: демир-үжүк ( demir-üjük ) Ukrainian: ру́чка f ( rúčka ) , перо́ n ( peró ) Urdu: لِکْھنی m or f ( likhnī ) , قَلَم m or f ( qalam ) Uyghur: قەلەم (ug) ( qelem ) , گاڭبى ( gangbi ) , ماي قەلەم ( may qelem ) Uzbek: ruchka (uz) , qalam (uz) Vietnamese: bút mực (vi) , bút bi (vi) ( ballpoint pen ) , bút máy ( fountain pen ) , viết mực (vi) , viết máy , bút (vi) Walloon: pene (wa) f , bik (wa) m Welsh: pìn m , ysgrifbin m Yiddish: פֿעדער f ( feder ) , פּען f ( pen ) Yoruba: kálámù Zhuang: ganghbiz Zulu: ipeni (zu) class 5/6 writer, or their style Bulgarian: перо́ (bg) n ( peró ) Finnish: kynäilijä (fi) ( writer ) , kynä (fi) ( style ) German: Schreiber (de) m , Schreibstil m , Feder (de) f Italian: penna (it) f Russian: перо́ (ru) n ( peró ) Spanish: pluma (es) f , cálamo (es) m Turkish: kalem (tr) light pen — see light pen internal cartilage skeleton of a squid Finnish: selkäkilpi Italian: osso di seppia m Portuguese: pena (pt) f , gládio (pt) m flight feather Bulgarian: перо́ (bg) n ( peró ) Finnish: lentosulka Russian: перо́ (ru) n ( peró ) wing — see wing
Verb
[ edit ]pen ( third-person singular simple present pens , present participle penning , simple past and past participle penned )
( transitive ) To write (an article, a book, etc.). 2008 , BioWare , Mass Effect , Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN , →OCLC , PC, scene: Nonuel: Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork and intricate watercolor illustrations clearly show the hand of a master scribe. 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC [1] : His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks- penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow. 2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL , number 947 , page 45 : It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground , a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.Derived terms
[ edit ] copen , co-pen repen , re-penTranslations
[ edit ] to write Bengali: লেখা (bn) ( lekha ) , লিখন (bn) ( likhon ) Bulgarian: пиша (bg) ( piša ) Dutch: schrijven (nl) Finnish: kynäillä (fi) French: écrire (fr) German: niederschreiben (de) , verfassen (de) Italian: scrivere (it) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: نووسین (ckb) ( nûsîn ) Macedonian: пишува impf ( pišuva ) Norwegian: skrive (no) , føre i pennen Polish: pisać (pl) Portuguese: escrever (pt) Russian: писа́ть (ru) impf ( pisátʹ ) , написа́ть (ru) pf ( napisátʹ ) Spanish: escribir (es) Turkish: kaleme almak (tr) , yazmak (tr)Etymology 4
[ edit ]Origin uncertain. Compare hen .
Noun
[ edit ]pen ( plural pens )
A female swan .Synonyms
[ edit ] swaness ( rare )Translations
[ edit ] female swan Belarusian: лябёдка f ( ljabjódka ) Bulgarian: же́нски ле́бед m ( žénski lébed ) Czech: samička labutě f Danish: hunsvane c Finnish: naarasjoutsen French: cygne femelle m German: Schwanenweibchen n , weiblicher Schwan m , Schwänin (de) f Italian: cigno femmina m Kashmiri: أنٛزِنؠ f ( ạnzin' ) Middle English: eyrer Norwegian: Bokmål: hunnsvane f or m Nynorsk: hosvane f Polish: łabędzica f Portuguese: cisne (pt) m or f Russian: лебёдка (ru) f ( lebjódka ) , лебёдушка (ru) f ( lebjóduška ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ла̏будица f Roman: lȁbudica (sh) f Spanish: cigne m or f , cisne (es) m or f Volapük: jisvanEtymology 5
[ edit ]Clipping of penalty .
Noun
[ edit ]pen ( plural pens )
( soccer , slang ) Penalty .Etymology 6
[ edit ]Clipping of penetration .
Noun
[ edit ]pen ( plural pens )
( computing , informal ) Penetration .Derived terms
[ edit ] pen testEtymology 7
[ edit ]By incorrect analogy with man → men .
Noun
[ edit ]pen ( uncountable )
( humorous ) plural of panReferences
[ edit ] ↑ 1.0 1.1 Douglas Harper ( 2001–2025 ) “ pen ”, in Online Etymology Dictionary .See also
[ edit ] pin-pen mergerAnagrams
[ edit ] NEP , Nep , PNe , nepAngloromani
[ edit ]Alternative forms
[ edit ] pan , peyEtymology
[ edit ]Inherited from Romani phen .
Pronunciation
[ edit ] IPA ( key ) : [ˈpʰen] , [ˈpen] , [pʰɛn]Noun
[ edit ]pen
sister Synonyms: minnipen , rakla Sa see pal te pen? ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)Derived terms
[ edit ] minnipen stiffa penReferences
[ edit ] “pen”, in Angloromani Dictionary [2] , The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006 , page 132Cumbric
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Etymology
[ edit ]From Proto-Brythonic *penn , from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom , of uncertain derivation.
Noun
[ edit ]pen
head top , summitReferences
[ edit ] Attested in Cumbric toponymic compounds and phrasal names (Pen-y-Ghent)Danish
[ edit ]Etymology 1
[ edit ]From late Old Norse penni , from Latin penna ( “ feather ” ) .
Pronunciation
[ edit ] IPA ( key ) : /pɛnˀ/ , [pʰɛnˀ]Noun
[ edit ]pen c ( singular definite pennen , plural indefinite penne )
pen quill pane , peenDeclension
[ edit ] Declension of pen commongender singular plural indefinite definite indefinite definite nominative pen pennen penne pennene genitive pens pennens pennes pennenes
Etymology 2
[ edit ]Adjective
[ edit ]pen ( neuter pent , plural and definite singular attributive pene , comparative penere , superlative (predicative) penest , superlative (attributive) peneste )
Obsolete spelling of pæn .Dutch
[ edit ]Etymology
[ edit ]From Middle Dutch penne , ultimately from Latin penna . This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
[ edit ] IPA ( key ) : /pɛn/ Audio : ( file ) Hyphenation: pen Rhymes: -ɛnNoun
[ edit ]pen f ( plural pennen , diminutive pennetje n )
a long feather of a bird pen ( writing utensil ) pin Synonym: pinDerived terms
[ edit ] aardingspen balpen kroontjespen pendag penhamer pennenbak pennenstrijd pennenvrucht pennenzak pennist penwortel scharnierpen slagpen staartpen vulpen zadelpenDescendants
[ edit ] Afrikaans: pen Negerhollands: pen → Caribbean Hindustani: pen → Caribbean Javanese: pèn → Indonesian: pen → Japanese: ペン ( pen ) → Papiamentu: pèn , pen , pènchi , pennetsje ( from the diminutive ) → Sranan Tongo: pen → Saramaccan: peniAnagrams
[ edit ] nepHaitian Creole
[ edit ] Haitian Creole Wikipedia has an article on: pen Wikipedia htPronunciation
[ edit ] IPA ( key ) : /pɛ̃/Etymology 1
[ edit ]From French pain ( “ bread ” ) .
Noun
[ edit ]pen
breadDerived terms
[ edit ] pen griye ( “ toast ” ) pen mayi ( “ corncake ” )Etymology 2
[ edit ]From French pin .
Noun
[ edit ]pen
A pine tree , especially the Hispaniola pine .References
[ edit ] Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN )Indonesian
[ edit ]Pronunciation
[ edit ] IPA ( key ) : [ˈpɛn] Hyphenation: pènEtymology 1
[ edit ]From Dutch pen , from Latin penna ( “ feather, pen ” ) . Doublet of pena .
Noun
[ edit ]pèn ( plural pen - pen )
( nonstandard ) alternative form of pena ( “ pen ” ) . ( medicine ) pin , metal used to fasten or as a bearing.Etymology 2
[ edit ]Verb
[ edit ]pen
( slang ) syncopic form of pengenFurther reading
[ edit ] “ pen ” 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.Japanese
[ edit ]Romanization
[ edit ]pen
Rōmaji transcription of ペンMandarin
[ edit ]Romanization
[ edit ]pen
Nonstandard spelling of pēn . Nonstandard spelling of pén . Nonstandard spelling of pěn . Nonstandard spelling of pèn .Usage notes
[ edit ] 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.Mapudungun
[ edit ]Verb
[ edit ]pen ( Raguileo spelling )
to see Synonym: petunMiddle English
[ edit ]Etymology 1
[ edit ]From Anglo-Norman penne .
Noun
[ edit ]pen
Alternative form of penneEtymology 2
[ edit ]From Old English penn , from Proto-Germanic *pennō , perhaps from the root of pinn ( “ peg, pin ” ) .
Alternative forms
[ edit ] penne , peynPronunciation
[ edit ] IPA ( key ) : /pɛn/ Rhymes: -ɛnNoun
[ edit ]pen
An enclosed structure for securing animals .Related terms
[ edit ] pennenDescendants
[ edit ] English: pen Scots: penReferences
[ edit ] “ pen, n. ”, in MED Online , Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan , 2007 , retrieved 2018-04-24 . Douglas Harper ( 2001–2025 ) “ pen ”, in Online Etymology Dictionary .Mindiri
[ edit ]Noun
[ edit ]pen
womanFurther reading
[ edit ] Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia , Pacific Linguistics , series C-98 (1988)Mokilese
[ edit ]Noun
[ edit ]pen
coconut , especially one that coconut milk can be drunk fromInflection
[ edit ] Forms of pen singular plural demonstrative forms 1st person(near speaker) penne penkai 2nd person
(near hearer) pennen penken 3rd person
(near neither speaker nor hearer) penno pennok article forms indefinite pennoaw penpwi definite penwa
Norwegian Bokmål
[ edit ]Etymology
[ edit ]Possibly from French .
Adjective
[ edit ]pen ( neuter singular pent , definite singular and plural pene , comparative penere , indefinite superlative penest , definite superlative peneste )
nice pent vær ― nice weather neat beautiful , pretty handsome , good-lookingReferences
[ edit ] “pen” in The Bokmål Dictionary .Norwegian Nynorsk
[ edit ]Etymology
[ edit ]Possibly from French .
Adjective
[ edit ]pen ( neuter singular pent , definite singular and plural pene , comparative penare , indefinite superlative penast , definite superlative penaste )
nice pent vêr ― nice weather neat beautiful , pretty handsome , good-lookingReferences
[ edit ] “pen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary .Old Cornish
[ edit ]Etymology
[ edit ]From Proto-Celtic *kʷennom .
Noun
[ edit ]pen
head c. 1200 , Latin-Old Cornish Glossary in British Library MS Cotton Vespasian A XIV , folio 7 recto: Capud. pen . Head. — head .Portuguese
[ edit ]Etymology
[ edit ]Borrowed from English pen [drive] . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Pronunciation
[ edit ] ( Brazil ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈpẽj̃/ [ˈpẽɪ̯̃] ( Portugal ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈpɛn/Hyphenation: pen
Noun
[ edit ]pen f ( plural pens )
( computing ) pen drive , flash drive ( small portable device that connects to a computer via a USB port and is used to store and/or transfer data ) Synonyms: chave de memória , pen-drive Comprei uma pen de 16 GB. ― I bought a 16 GB flash drive .References
[ edit ] ^ “ pen ”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003 – 2025 ^ “ pen ”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008 – 2025Rade
[ edit ]Etymology
[ edit ]Borrowed from French pince .
Noun
[ edit ]pen
pincersRomani
[ edit ]Pronoun
[ edit ]pen
themselves ( third-person plural reflexive pronoun )See also
[ edit ] Romani personal pronouns number person nominative accusative dative locative ablative instrumental possessive singular first me man manqe manθe manθar mança miro , -i , -e second tu tut tuqe tuθe tuθar tuça tiro , -i , -e reflexive third — pes pesqe pesθe pesθar peça pesqero , -i , -e third m ov les lesqe lesθe lesθar leça lesqero , -i , -e f oj la laqe laθe laθar laça laqero , -i , -e plural first amen amenqe amenθe amenθar amença amaro , -i , -e second tumen tumenqe tumenθe tumenθar tumença tumaro , -i , -e reflexive third — pen penqe penθe penθar pença penqero , -i , -e third on len lenqe lenθe lenθar lença lenqero , -i , -e Kalderash Romani personal pronouns number person nominative accusative (long and short forms) dative locative ablative instrumental possessive singular first me man, ma mánge mánde mándar mánsa múrro , -i , -e second tu tut , tu túke túte tútar túsa tíro , -i , -e reflexive third — pês , pe pêske pêste pêstar pêsa pêsko , -i , -e third m wo lês , le lêske lêste lêstar lêsa lêsko , -i , -e f woi la , la láke láte látar lása láko , -i , -e plural first ame amên , ame amênge amênde amêndar amênsa amáro , -i , -e second tume tumên , tume tumênge tumênde tumêndar tumênsa tumáro , -i , -e reflexive third — pên , pe pênge pênde pêndar pênsa pêngo , -i , -e third won lên , le lênge lênde lêndar lênsa lêngo , -i , -eTok Pisin
[ edit ]Etymology 1
[ edit ]From English paint .
Noun
[ edit ]pen
paintEtymology 2
[ edit ]From English pen .
Noun
[ edit ]pen
penEtymology 3
[ edit ]From English pain .
Noun
[ edit ]pen
pain 1989 , Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin , Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:16 : Na God i tokim meri olsem, “Bai mi givim yu bikpela hevi long taim yu gat bel. Na bai yu gat bikpela pen long taim yu karim pikinini. Tasol bai yu gat bikpela laik yet long man bilong yu, na bai em i bosim yu.” →New International Version translationVolapük
[ edit ]Noun
[ edit ]pen ( nominative plural pens )
penDeclension
[ edit ] Declension of pen singular plural nominative pen pens genitive pena penas dative pene penes accusative peni penis vocative 1 o pen ! o pens ! predicative 2 penu penus 1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Welsh
[ edit ] Picture dictionary pen penglog talcen ymennydd ael llygad gwefus trwyn ceg gên boch clust arlais gwddf or llwnc gwddf gwarClick on labels in the image
corff corffEtymology
[ edit ]From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh penn , from Proto-Brythonic *penn , from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom .
Pronunciation
[ edit ] IPA ( key ) : /pɛn/ Rhymes: -ɛnNoun
[ edit ]pen m ( plural pennau )
( anatomy ) head chief top , apex end , extremityDerived terms
[ edit ] goben ( “ penult ” ) gobennol ( “ penultimate ” ) gobennu ( “ to terminate, to accent on the penultimate syllable ” ) penglog ( “ skull ” ) pengoch ( “ redheaded ” ) pen tost ( “ headache ” ) pen tŷ ( “ roof ” ) pen-blwydd ( “ anniversary, birthday ” ) penddu ( “ blackheaded ” ) penfeddw ( “ giddy, lightheaded ” ) penfelyn ( “ yellow-headed ” ) penllwyd ( “ grey-haired ” ) pennaeth ( “ chief, leader ” ) pennog ( “ herring ” ) pennol ( “ capital, important ” ) penrhudd ( “ wild marjoram ” ) pensyfrdan ( “ stunned, bewildered ” ) penty ( “ penthouse ” ) penwyn ( “ white-headed ” ) uwchben ( “ overhead, above ” ) ymhenAdjective
[ edit ]pen ( feminine singular pen , plural pen , equative penned , comparative pennach , superlative pennaf )
head , chief Synonym: prif supreme , principal Synonyms: pennol , blaenolMutation
[ edit ] Mutated forms of pen radical soft nasal aspirate pen ben mhen phen Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.