Seine

See also: seine and seiné

English

Etymology

French Seine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -ɛn
  • Homophone: sen
• IPA^(key): /seɪn/

  • Audio (US):

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  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophones: sain, sane

Proper noun

the Seine

1. A river in northern France that flows through Paris for about 772 km (480 mi) to the English Channel near Le Havre.
2. A former department of France, the capital city of which was Paris.

Derived terms

• Seine-et-Marne
• Seine-Maritime
• Seine-Saint-Denis

Translations

river of northern France

• Albanian: Sena
• Amharic: ሰን (sän)
• Arabic: السِّين m (as-sīn)
• Armenian: Սեն (Sen)
• Azerbaijani: Sena
• Basque: Sena
• Belarusian: Се́на f (Sjéna)
• Bengali: সেন (Sen)
• Breton: Saena f
• Bulgarian: Се́на f (Séna)
• Burmese: စိန်းမြစ် (cin:mrac)
• Catalan: Sena (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 塞納河／塞纳河 (zh), 塞纳河 (zh) (Sènà hé)

• Czech: Seina (cs) f
• Danish: Seinen
• Dutch: Seine (nl) f
• Esperanto: Sejno
• Estonian: Seine (et)
• Finnish: Seine (fi)
• French: Seine (fr) f
• Galician: Sena (gl) f
• Georgian: სენა (sena)
• German: Seine (de) f
• Greek: Σηκουάνας (el) m (Sikouánas)
• Hebrew: סן m (Sén)
• Hindi: सीन (hi) f (sīn)
• Hungarian: Szajna (hu)
• Icelandic: Signa (is) f
• Indonesian: Seine
• Irish: An tSéin f
• Italian: Senna f
• Japanese: セーヌ川 (Sēnu-gawa)
• Kazakh: Сена (Sena)
• Korean: 센 강 (ko) (Sen gang)
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• Latin: Sequana (la) f
• Latvian: Sēna f
• Lithuanian: Sena f
• Macedonian: Сена f (Sena)
• Malay: Seine
• Marathi: सेन f (sen)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: Seine m

  Nynorsk: Seinen m

• Occitan: Sèina f
• Persian: سن (fa) (sên)
• Polish: Sekwana (pl) f
• Portuguese: Sena (pt) m
• Punjabi: ਸੈਨ (pa) f (sain)
• Romanian: Sena f
• Russian: Се́на (ru) f (Séna)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: Сена f

  Roman: Sena f

• Slovak: Seina f
• Slovene: Sena f
• Spanish: Sena m
• Swedish: Seinen c, Seine c
• Tagalog: Sena
• Tamil: செய்ன் (ceyṉ)
• Thai: แม่น้ำแซน (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-sɛɛn)
• Turkish: Sen
• Ukrainian: Се́на f (Séna)
• Welsh: Seine f
• West Frisian: Seine

Anagrams

• Eisen, Niese, insee, see in, seein, seein', senie

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French

Etymology

Latin Sequana, from a Celtic deity who descended from the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛn

Proper noun

la Seine f

1. Seine (a river in northern France)

Usage notes

In French, the river Seine is known as a fleuve, not a rivière.

Derived terms

• Hauts-de-Seine
• Seine-et-Marne
• Seine-Maritime
• Seine-Saint-Denis
• séquanais