oven

See also: Oven, oven-, and övén

English

A man using an oven of a pizzeria.

Etymology

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (compare Dutch oven, Low German Aven, West Frisian ûne, German Ofen, Danish ovn, Norwegian Bokmål ovn, Norwegian Nynorsk omn, Swedish ugn, Icelandic ofn, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukw- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukwnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Old Armenian ակութ (akutʿ), Albanian anë, Latin aulla, olla, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós)).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʌ.vn̩/
• (General American, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌv.ən/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌvən

Noun

oven (plural ovens)

1. A chamber used for baking or heating.

Derived terms

• convection oven
• conventional oven
• countertop oven
• Dutch oven
• microwave oven
• oven glove
• oven-proof
• oven rack
• oven ring
• pizza oven
• roaster oven
• toaster oven

 

Translations

chamber used for baking or heating

• Afrikaans: oond
• Albanian: furrë (sq) f
• Arabic: فُرْن‎ m (furn), تَنُّور‎ m (tannūr)

  Egyptian Arabic: فرن‎ m (furn)

  Hijazi Arabic: فُرُن‎ m (furun)

  Moroccan Arabic: فرّان‎ m (farrān)

• Aragonese: forno m
• Armenian: փուռ (hy) (pʿuṙ), վառարան (hy) (vaṙaran)
• Aromanian: furnu n, cireap n, cuptor n, cãminji f
• Assamese: চৌকা (souka), আখা (akha), ঘৰা (ghora), অভেন (obhen) (electric)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܬܘܼܢܵܐ‎ m (āttuna)
• Asturian: fornu m
• Azerbaijani: peç, duxovka, ocak (az)
• Bashkir: мейес (meyes)
• Basque: labe
• Belarusian: печ f (pječ), пе́чка f (pjéčka)
• Bengali: চুলা (cula), তন্দুর (tôndur), উনান (unan), আখা (akha)
• Bulgarian: фу́рна f (fúrna), пещ (bg) f (pešt)
• Burmese: ပေါင်းဖို (my) (paung:hpui)
• Catalan: forn (ca) m
• Chichewa: uvuni
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 焗爐, 焗炉 (guk⁶ lou⁴)

  Mandarin: 烤爐 (zh), 烤炉 (zh) (kǎolú), 爐 (zh), 炉 (zh) (lú), 烘爐 (zh), 烘炉 (zh) (hōnglú)

  Min Nan: 烘爐 (zh-min-nan), 烘炉 (hang-lô͘)

• Classical Nahuatl: texcalli, tlaxcaltexcalli
• Cornish: forn f
• Crimean Tatar: furun, pırım (northern dialect)
• Czech: trouba (cs) f, pec (cs) f
• Danish: ovn (da) c
• Dutch: oven (nl) m
• Esperanto: forno, bakujo
• Estonian: ahi (et)
• Finnish: uuni (fi)
• French: four (fr) m
• Friulian: fôr m
• Galician: forno (gl) m
• Georgian: ღუმელი (ɣumeli)
• German: Ofen (de) m

  Central Franconian: Ovve m

• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 m (auhns)
• Greek: φούρνος (el) m (foúrnos)

  Ancient: ἰπνός m (ipnós), κάμινος m or f (káminos), κλίβανος m (klíbanos)

• Hausa: obin
• Hebrew: תַנוּר‎ (he) m (tanur)
• Hindi: ओवन (ovan), चूल्हा (hi) m (cūlhā), तन्दूर m (tandūr)
• Hungarian: kemence (hu), sütő (hu)
• Icelandic: ofn (is) m
• Ido: forno (io), bakoforno (io)
• Indonesian: oven (id), tanur (id)
• Irish: oigheann (ga) m
• Istriot: furno m
• Italian: forno (it) m
• Japanese: オーブン (ja) (ōbun)
• Kazakh: пеш (kk) (peş)
• Khmer: ឡ (km) (lɑɑ)
• Korean: 오븐 (ko) (obeun)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: firrne (ku) f, ocax (ku) f, tenûr (ku) f, tebax (ku) f, argûn (ku)

• Kyrgyz: меш (meş), печь (peçʹ), печка (peçka)
• Lao: ເຕົາອົບ (tao ʼop), ເຕົາ (tao)

• Latin: furnus m, fornāx f
• Latvian: krāsns (lv) f
• Lithuanian: krosnis m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Aven (nds)

• Macedonian: ре́рна f (rérna) (electrical appliance), пе́чка f (péčka) (built)
• Malay: ketuhar
• Maori: umu, oumu
• Mongolian: зуух (mn) (zuukh)
• Neapolitan: furno
• Nepali: चुल्हो (culho)
• Norman: fou m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: omman
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ovn (no) m, stekeovn m

  Nynorsk: omn m

• Occitan: forn (oc) m
• Old English: ofn m
• Ottoman Turkish: فرون‎ (furun)
• Pashto: تنور‎ (ps) m (tanúr)
• Persian: تنور‎ (fa) (tanur)
• Plautdietsch: Owen m
• Polabian: pic f
• Polish: piekarnik (pl) m (appliance), piec (pl) m (built)
• Portuguese: forno (pt) m
• Romani: bov m
• Romanian: cuptor (ro) n, sobă (ro) f
• Romansch: furn m, fuorn m, furnel m, pigna f, pegna f
• Russian: печь (ru) f (pečʹ), пе́чка (ru) f (péčka), духо́вка (ru) f (duxóvka) (the actual chamber)
• Rusyn: блóвдер m (blóvder)
• Sardinian: forru m, furru m
• Scottish Gaelic: àmhainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пећ f

  Roman: peć (sh) f

• Sicilian: furneddu m
• Silesian: bratruła f
• Sinhalese: අවන් (awan)
• Slovak: piecka f, pec f
• Slovene: peč (sl) f, pečica f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pjac m (for baking), kamjeny pl (for heating)

• Spanish: horno (es) m
• Swedish: ugn (sv) c
• Tajik: танӯр (tg) (tanür), печка (tg) (pečka)
• Tamil: அடுப்பு (aṭuppu)
• Tatar: фурун (furun)
• Telugu: పొయ్యి (te) (poyyi)
• Thai: เตาอบ (th) (dtao-òp)
• Turkish: fırın (tr), ocak (tr)
• Turkmen: peç, ojak
• Udmurt: гур (gur)
• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎐𐎐𐎗 (tnnr)
• Ukrainian: піч (uk) f (pič), пі́чка f (píčka)
• Urdu: تندور‎ m (tandūr)
• Uyghur: ئوچاق‎ (ochaq), دۇخوپكا‎ (duxopka), تونۇر‎ (tonur)
• Uzbek: pechka (uz), pech (uz), oʻchoq (uz), duxovka (uz)
• Veps: päč
• Vietnamese: lò (vi), lò nướng
• Volapük: furnod (vo)
• Walloon: for (wa) m
• Welsh: ffwrn (cy) f, popty (cy) m
• West Frisian: ûne c
• Yiddish: אויוון‎ (oyvn)
• Zhuang: gaujluz

Verb

oven (third-person singular simple present ovens, present participle ovening, simple past and past participle ovened)

1. To cook in an oven

Further reading

• oven on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “oven” in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “oven” in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• oven at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Veno, nevo-, veno-

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ōven, from Old Dutch *ovan, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *ufnaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.vən/

• audio

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• Audio (Belgium)

  (file)

• Hyphenation: oven
• Rhymes: -oːvən

Noun

oven m (plural ovens, diminutive oventje n)

1. oven, furnace

Derived terms

• bakoven
• droogoven
• gasoven
• heteluchtoven
• hoogoven
• houtoven
• kalkoven
• magnetronoven
• microgolfoven
• ovenfriet
• ovenschaal
• ovenschotel
• ovenvers
• ovenwant
• smeedoven
• steenoven
• stoomoven
• zonneoven

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: oond
• Negerhollands: oven
• → Caribbean Javanese: ofen
• → Indonesian: oven
• → Sranan Tongo: onfu
  • → Saramaccan: ónfu

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Finnish

Noun

oven

1. Genitive singular form of ovi.

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch oven, from Middle Dutch oven, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈo.vən]
• Hyphenation: o‧vên

Noun

oven or ovên

1. oven, a chamber used for baking or heating.
2. stove, hearth

   Synonyms: tungku, dapur, perapian

3. furnace

   Synonym: tanur

Alternative forms

• open

Derived terms

• ovenan (“baked”)
• oven gelombang mikro (“microwave oven”)

Further reading

• “oven” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːʋən/

Noun

óvən m anim

1. ram (male sheep)

Inflection

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	ôven
gen. sing.	ôvna
	singular	dual	plural
nominative	ôven	ôvna	ôvni
accusative	ôvna	ôvna	ôvne
genitive	ôvna	ôvnov	ôvnov
dative	ôvnu	ôvnoma	ôvnom
locative	ôvnu	ôvnih	ôvnih
instrumental	ôvnom	ôvnoma	ôvni

Further reading

• “oven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

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Spanish

Verb

oven

1. Second-person plural (ustedes) present subjunctive form of ovar.
2. Third-person plural (ellos, ellas, also used with ustedes^?) present subjunctive form of ovar.
3. Second-person plural (ustedes) imperative form of ovar.