dren

See also: Dren, dreň, drên, dřen, and dřeň

Catalan

Etymology

From French and English drain.

Noun

dren m (plural drens)

1. drain

Related terms

• drenar
• drenatge

Further reading

• “dren”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “dren” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2026.

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish drain, from Proto-Brythonic *draɣen, from Proto-Celtic *dregenom (“sloe, blackthorn”). Cognate with Breton draen, Irish draighean (“sloe, blackthorn”), Manx drine, Scottish Gaelic droigheann, and Welsh draen, drain.

Noun

dren m (plural dreyn)

1. (botany) thorn

   Synonym: spernen

2. fishbone

Derived terms

• drenek (“thorny”)

Mutation

Mutation of dren

radical	soft	aspirate	hard	mixed
dren	dhren	unchanged	tren	tren

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Polabian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dernъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰergʰnós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɛn/

Noun

dren m ?

1. thorn

Derived terms

nouns

• drenĕ

adjectives

• drenüvotĕ

References

• Lehr-Spławiński, T.; Polański, K. (1962), “dren”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 125
• Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “dren”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 55
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962), “Drên”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 217

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *dʰer-der.

Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewgʰ-der.

Proto-Germanic *draugiz

Proto-Germanic *drauhnōną

Proto-West Germanic *drauhnōn

Old English drēahnian

Middle English *dreinen

English drainbor.

Polish dren

Borrowed from English drain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɛn/

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: dren

Noun

dren m inan

1. drain, drainpipe
2. (medicine) drain, drainage tube

   Synonym: sączek

Declension

Declension of dren

	singular	plural
nominative	dren	dreny
genitive	drenu	drenów
dative	drenowi	drenom
accusative	dren	dreny
instrumental	drenem	drenami
locative	drenie	drenach
vocative	drenie	dreny

Derived terms

verb

• drenować

Further reading

• “dren”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “dren”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French drain.

Noun

dren n (plural drenuri)

1. drain

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	dren	drenul	drenuri	drenurile
genitive-dative	dren	drenului	drenuri	drenurilor
vocative	drenule		drenurilor

References

• dren in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• drijȇn (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dernъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drên/

Noun

drȅn m inan (Cyrillic spelling дре̏н) (Ekavian)

1. dogwood, cornel (tree or shrub of the genus Cornus)
2. specifically European cornel

Declension

Declension of dren

	singular	plural
nominative	drȅn	drènovi
genitive	drèna	drenova
dative	drenu	drenovima
accusative	dren	drenove
vocative	drenu	drenovi
locative	drenu	drenovima
instrumental	drenom	drenovima

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *dernъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /drɛ́n/

Noun

drȅn m inan

1. dogwood (tree or shrub of the genus Cornus)

Declension

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	drèn
gen. sing.	dréna
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	drèn	dréna	dréni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	dréna	drénov	drénov
dative (dajȃlnik)	drénu	drénoma	drénom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	drèn	dréna	dréne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	drénu	drénih	drénih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	drénom	drénoma	dréni

Further reading

• “dren”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

Spanish

Noun

dren m (plural drenes)

1. permeable pipe

Further reading

• Seco, Manuel; Andrés, Olimpia; Ramos, Gabino (2023), “dren”, in Diccionario del español actual (in Spanish), third digital edition, Fundación BBVA

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From English dream.

Noun

dren

1. dream

Verb

dren

1. to dream
2. to imagine

Adjective

dren

1. imaginary