aren

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See also: åren, ären, and Ären

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

aren m inan

  1. (organic chemistry) arene

Declension

Declension of aren (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative aren areny
genitive arenu arenů
dative arenu arenům
accusative aren areny
vocative arene areny
locative arenu arenech
instrumental arenem areny

Danish

Noun

aren c

  1. definite singular of ar

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

aren

  1. plural of aar
  2. plural of are

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Javanese ꦲꦫꦺꦤ꧀ (arén).

Pronunciation

Noun

aren (Jawi spelling ارين, plural aren-aren, informal 1st possessive arenku, 2nd possessive arenmu, 3rd possessive arennya)

  1. sugar palm (Arenga pinnata)
    Synonyms: enau, kabung

Derived terms

Affixed terms and other derivations

Irregular affixed derivations, other derivations and compound words:

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English earon, earun, arun, alternative present plural of wesan (“to be”), from Proto-Germanic *arun, an innovated third-person present plural of *beuną (“to be, become”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈaːrən/, /ˈarən/

Verb

aren

  1. plural present indicative of been
Usage notes

The usual plural form of been is aren in the North, been in the Midlands, and beth in the South; sind also existed, especially early on, but was not the predominant form in any area.

Descendants
  • English: are

Etymology 2

Verb

aren

  1. (Ormulum) Alternative form of oren

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃ln.

Noun

aren f

  1. (anatomy) elbow

Synonyms

Spanish

Verb

aren

  1. inflection of arar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Swedish

Noun

aren

  1. definite plural of ar

Anagrams

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh arenn, from Proto-Celtic *ārū. Cognate with Old Irish áru and perhaps more distantly with Hittite (/⁠ḫaḫri-⁠/), Latin rēn, and Tocharian A āriñc (“heart”).

Pronunciation

Noun

aren f (plural arennau)

  1. kidney

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
aren unchanged unchanged haren
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*āron-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 42

Further reading

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “aren”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
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