sheen

English

Etymology

From Middle English shene, from Old English scīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱoun- (“quick, dashing, beautiful”). Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Non-Germanic cognates include Albanian hir (“grace, blessing, goodwill”), Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”)

Pronunciation

• enPR: shēn, IPA: /ʃiːn/, X-SAMPA: /Si:n/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

Wikipedia

sheen (comparative more sheen, superlative most sheen)

1. beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.

Noun

sheen (plural sheens)

1. splendor; radiance; shininess.

Translations

splendor; radiance; shininess

• Dutch: glans (nl) m, glittering (nl) f
• Esperanto: brilo (eo)
• Finnish: loiste (fi), kiilto (fi), hohto (fi)
• French: brillance (fr)
• German: Glanz (de) m
• Greek: στιλπνότητα (el) (stilpnótita) f, λαμπρότητα (el) (lamprótita) f, γυαλάδα (el) (gyaláda) f

• Irish: lonracht (ga) f
• Portuguese: brilho (pt) m
• Russian: блеск (ru) (blesk) m
• Slovene: blesk (sl) m
• Spanish: brillo (es) m

Verb

sheen (third-person singular simple present sheens, present participle sheening, simple past and past participle sheened)

1. To shine; to glisten.
   • Byron

     This town, / That, sheening far, celestial seems to be.

Translations

shine; glisten

• Dutch: glanzen (nl), glitteren (nl), glimmen (nl)
• Finnish: loistaa (fi), kiiltää (fi), hohtaa (fi)

• French: briller (fr)
• Greek: λάμπω (el) (lámpo), γυαλίζω (el) (gyalízo)
• Russian: блестеть (ru) (blestétʹ) impf.