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ven

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ven"
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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Venda.

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ven

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Venda.

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English

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Adjective

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ven (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of venerable.

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Catalan

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Verb

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ven

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

Cornish

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Noun

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ven m (plural veyn)

  1. soft mutation of men

Czech

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Czech ven, from Proto-Slavic *vъnъ.

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  • IPA(key): [ˈvɛn]
  • Audio:(file)

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ven

  1. out, outwards
    Antonym: dovnitř
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Dalmatian

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Etymology

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From Latin vīnum.

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ven m

  1. wine

Danish

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Etymology

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From Old Danish win, from Old Norse vinr, from Proto-Norse ᚹᛁᚾᛁᛉ (winiʀ), from Proto-Germanic *winiz, cognate with Swedish vän. rom Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to seek, desire, love, win”).

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ven c (singular definite vennen, plural indefinite venner)

  1. friend
    Synonyms: veninde, kammerat
    Coordinate term: bekendt
  2. (dated) boyfriend (a male lover)
    Synonym: kæreste

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Declension of ven
common
gender 		singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative ven vennen venner vennerne
genitive vens vennens venners vennernes

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Dena'ina

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Etymology

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From Proto-Athabaskan *wən.

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ven

  1. lake

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  • Kari, James (2013), Denaʼina Topical Dictionary, Revised Edition, Alaska Native Language Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, page 126

Dutch

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From Middle Dutch venne, from Old Dutch *feni, from Proto-Germanic *fanją (compare English fen). Doublet of veen.

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ven n (plural vennen, diminutive vennetje n)

  1. mere, a small shallow lake or pond

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Galician

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Etymology 1

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Inflected form of ver (“to see”).

Verb

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ven

  1. third-person plural present indicative of ver

Etymology 2

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Inflected form of venir (“to come”).

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ven

  1. second-person singular imperative of vir

Haitian Creole

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From French vingt.

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Numeral

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ven

  1. twenty

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  • Targète, Jean; Urciolo, Raphael (1993), Haitian Creole-English Dictionary‎[1], Dunwoody Press, →ISBN, page 199

Mauritian Creole

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Numeral

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ven

  1. alternative spelling of vin (“twenty”)

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  • Baker, Philip; Hookoomsing, Vinesh Y. (1987), Diksiyoner kreol morisyeṅ [Mauritian Creole Dictionary] (in French and English), Paris: L'Harmattan, →ISBN, page 231

Middle English

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Noun

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ven

  1. (Southern) alternative form of fen

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology

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From Old Norse vænn (“which gives hope about”).

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ven (neuter singular vent, definite singular and plural vene, comparative venere, indefinite superlative venest, definite superlative veneste)

  1. beautiful

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Used in folklore and poetic language primarily.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Etymology 1

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From Old Norse vinr, from Proto-Germanic *winiz, from the Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to seek, desire, love, win”). Related to Latin venus (“beauty”).

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ven m (definite singular venen, indefinite plural vener or venar, definite plural venene or venane)

  1. friend
    Han er venen min.
    He’s my friend.
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Etymology 2

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From Old Norse vænn (“which gives hope about”).

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ven (neuter vent, definite singular and plural vene, comparative venare, indefinite superlative venast, definite superlative venaste)

  1. beautiful
    Synonym: vakker
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Etymology 3

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Verb

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ven

  1. present tense of venja
  2. imperative of venja

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Old Norse

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Verb

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ven

  1. first-person singular present indicative active of venja
  2. second-person singular present imperative active of venja

Old Occitan

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Noun

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ven m (oblique plural vens, nominative singular vens, nominative plural ven)

  1. alternative form of vent

Serbo-Croatian

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ven (Cyrillic spelling вен)

  1. (Kajkavian) that one
    Synonym: onaj
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Spanish

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈben/ [ˈbẽn]
  • Rhymes: -en
  • Syllabification: ven

Etymology 1

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Verb

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ven

  2. second-person singular imperative of venir
    • 1999, Marc Anthony, Cory Rooney, “Dímelo”, in Marc Anthony‎[2], performed by Marc Anthony:
      No me dejes solo con mi corazón
      que está enloquecido con esta pasión
      Si es que me deseas, nena, dímelo
      porque por tu amor estoy muriendo yo
      Ay dímelo, ven dímelo
      porque por tu amor estoy muriendo yo
      Ay dímelo, ven dímelo
      porque por tu amor estoy muriendo yo
      Don’t leave me alone with my heart driven crazy with this passion
      If it’s true that you want me, baby, tell me, because I am dying for your love
      Oh, tell me, come on and tell me, because I am dying for your love
      Oh, tell me, come on and tell me, because I am dying for your love

Etymology 2

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Verb

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ven

  1. third-person plural present indicative of ver

Swedish

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Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1

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From Latin vena; cognate to English vein.

Noun

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ven c

  1. a vein
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Declension of ven
nominative genitive
singular indefinite ven vens
definite venen venens
plural indefinite vener veners
definite venerna venernas
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Etymology 2

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Germanic; see English whin.

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Noun

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ven c

  1. bentgrass, grass of the genus Agrostis

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  • Fredrik Tamm, Etymologisk svensk ordbok, volume 1

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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ven

  1. past indicative of vina

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  • “ven”, in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker [Dictionaries of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
  • Svensk MeSH
  • ven in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Veps

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Etymology

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From Proto-Finnic *vëëno. Cognates include Finnish vieno.

Adjective

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ven

  1. quiet, calm, still
  2. slow, sluggish
  3. mild, moderate, temperate

Declension

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Inflection of ven (inflection type 1/ilo)
nominative sing. ven
genitive sing. venon
partitive sing. venod
partitive plur. venoid
singular plural
nominative ven venod
accusative venon venod
genitive venon venoiden
partitive venod venoid
essive-instructive venon venoin
translative venoks venoikš
inessive venos venoiš
elative venospäi venoišpäi
illative venoho venoihe
adessive venol venoil
ablative venolpäi venoilpäi
allative venole venoile
abessive venota venoita
comitative venonke venoidenke
prolative venodme venoidme
approximative I venonno venoidenno
approximative II venonnoks venoidennoks
egressive venonnopäi venoidennopäi
terminative I venohosai venoihesai
terminative II venolesai venoilesai
terminative III venossai —
additive I venohopäi venoihepäi
additive II venolepäi venoilepäi

Vietnamese

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Etymology 1

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 邊 (“edge; border; side”, SV: biên). Doublet of biên. Attested in Phật thuyết đại báo phụ mẫu ân trọng kinh (佛說大報父母恩重經) as 多边 (多邊 (MC ta pen)) (modern SV: đa biên).

Noun

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ven • (𫑊)

  1. shore; bank; side
    vùng ven biển ― coastal area
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from French veine.

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ven

  1. (anatomy, colloquial) vein
    Synonym: tĩnh mạch
    Antonym: động mạch
    bắt ven
    to find a vein (for injection)

Volapük

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Conjunction

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ven

  1. when
    • 1937, “‚Johann Martin Schleyer’”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 34:
      Ven älabom lifayelis lul äprimom ad golön lü jul.
      When he was five years old, he started going to school.
    • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: I:
      Ven nu Yesus pimotom, tö ‚Bethlehem’ in Yudän timü hireg: ‚Herodes’, ekö! sapans anik se lofüdän äkömoms ini ‚Hierusalem’.
      After Jesus had been born at Bethlehem in Judaea during the reign of King Herod, suddenly some wise men came to Jerusalem from the east.

Yiddish

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Romanization

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ven

  1. romanization of ווען
    • 2007 January 26, Stefan Kanfer, “In Lower Manhattan, the Echo of the Yiddish Stage Endures”, in The New York Times‎[3] (in English), archived from the original on 31 March 2019:
      As a Yiddish proverb has it: Badarf men hunik ven tsuker iz zis? Who needs honey when sugar is sweet?

Yola

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Etymology

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From Middle English fen, from Old English fenn, from Proto-West Germanic *fani.

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Noun

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ven

  1. dirt

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References

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 75
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