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, 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/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ʌvən

Noun

oven (plural ovens)

1. A chamber used for baking or heating.

Derived terms

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)

  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, 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), فر‎ (fa) (for)
• 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, The Century Co., New York, 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/

• audio

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

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

1. oven

Derived terms

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

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Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɔ̀ːʋən/
• Tonal orthography: óvən

Noun

ôven m anim (genitive ôvna, nominative plural ôvni)

1. ram (male sheep)

Declension

Declension of ôven (masculine anim., hard o-stem)

	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.