apen

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See also: åpen, ąpęn-, and ʔapən

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːpə(n)/
  • Rhymes: -aːpən
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: a‧pen

Noun

apen

  1. plural of aap

Finnish

Noun

apen

  1. genitive singular of appi

Anagrams

Ido

Pronunciation

Adverb

apen

  1. Alternative form of apene
    Me apen askoltis a la diskuto.
    I hardly listened to the discussion.

Usage notes

See apene.

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Bahau

Pronunciation

Noun

apên (plural apen-apen)

  1. boat wall

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English apan; equivalent to ape +‎ -en (plural suffix).

Noun

apen

  1. plural of ape

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Noun

apen m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of ape

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

Noun

apen m or f

  1. definite masculine singular of ape

Polish

Pronunciation

Adjective

apen (not comparable, indeclinable)

  1. (Chełmno-Dobrzyń) Alternative form of apem

Further reading

  • Kazimierz Nitsch (1907) “apen”, in “Dyalekty polskie Prus zachodnich”, in Materyały i Prace Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności w Krakowie (in Polish), volume 3, Krakow: Akademia Umiejętności, page 386

Scots

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈɑp(ə)n/

Etymology 1

From Middle English open, from Old English open (“open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opan, from Proto-Germanic *upanaz (“open”), from Proto-Indo-European *upo (“up from under, over”).

Adjective

apen (comparative mair apen, superlative maist apen)

  1. open

Etymology 2

From Middle English openen, from Old English openian (“to open”), from Proto-West Germanic *opanōn, from Proto-Germanic *upanōną (“to raise; lift; open”), from *upanaz (“open”, adjective).

Verb

apen (third-person singular simple present apens, present participle apenin, simple past apent, past participle apent)

  1. to open

Tangam

Etymology

From Proto-Tani *a-pɨr.

Noun

apen

  1. root

References

  • Mark W. Post (2017) The Tangam Language: Grammar, Lexicon and Texts, →ISBN

West Frisian

Pronunciation

Noun

apen

  1. plural of aap
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