oven

See also: Oven and oven-

English

A man using an oven of a pizzeria.

Etymology

From Middle English oven, from Old English 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/

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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)
• Asturian: fornu m
• Azerbaijani: peç, duxovka, ocak (az)
• Basque: labe
• Belarusian: печ f (pječ), пе́чка f (pjéčka)
• Bengali: চুলা (cula)
• Bulgarian: фу́рна f (fúrna)
• 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)

• 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)
• 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: firrne (ku) f, ocax (ku) f, tenûr (ku) f, tebax (ku) f

• Kyrgyz: меш (meş), печь (peçʹ), печка (peçka)
• Lao: ເຕົາອົບ (tao ’op), 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) (zuuh)
• Neapolitan: furno
• Norman: fou m (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ovn (no) m, stekeovn m

  Nynorsk: omn m

• Occitan: forn (oc) m
• Old English: ofn m
• Ottoman Turkish: فرون‎ (furun)
• Persian: تنور‎ (fa) (tanur)
• Polish: piekarnik (pl) m (appliance), piec (pl) m (built)
• Portuguese: forno (pt) 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)
• Sardinian: forru m, furru m
• Scottish Gaelic: àmhainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пећ f

  Roman: peć (sh) f

• Sicilian: furneddu m
• Sinhalese: අවන් (avan)
• 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)
• Tatar: фурун (furun)
• Thai: เตาอบ (th) (dtao-òp)
• Turkish: fırın (tr), ocak (tr)
• Turkmen: peç, ojak
• Udmurt: гур (gur)
• Ukrainian: піч f (pič), пі́чка f (píčka)
• Uyghur: ئوچاق‎ (ochaq), دۇخوپكا‎ (duxopka), تونۇر‎ (tonur)
• Uzbek: pechka (uz), pech (uz), oʻchoq (uz), duxovka (uz)
• 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)

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 oven, from Old Dutch [Term?], Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (compare Low German Aven, West Frisian ûne, German Ofen, English oven, Danish ovn, Swedish ugn, Icelandic ofn, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns)), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukw- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukwnos. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.vən/

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• Audio (Belgium)

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• 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

 

See also

• fornuis
• kachel

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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.

Noun

oven (plural oven-oven, first-person possessive ovenku, second-person possessive ovenmu, third-person possessive ovennya)

1. oven

Derived terms

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

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːʋən/

Noun

óven 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

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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.