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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 , Finnish uuni , Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 ( auhns ) , probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- ( “ cooking pot ” ) , *Hukʷ- , *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा ( ukhā ) , Albanian anë , Latin aulla , olla , Ancient Greek ἰπνός ( ipnós ) ).
The modern pronunciation shows an occasional sound change in which o is changed to u (compare with the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel ).
Pronunciation
Noun
oven (plural ovens )
A chamber used for baking or heating .
( colloquial ) A very hot place.
2011 , Vern Shutz, Memoirs of a Left Hander , page 96 :The ballroom that evening was an absolute oven . I probably perspired more dancing then during the afternoon ballgame.
Derived terms
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) ( pʻuṙ ) , վառարան (hy) ( vaṙaran ) , ջեռոց (hy) ( ǰeṙocʻ )
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 (ast) m
Azerbaijani: peç , duxovka , ocak (az)
Bashkir: мейес ( meyes )
Basque: labe
Belarusian: печ f ( pječ ) , пе́чка f ( pjéčka )
Bengali: চুলা (bn) ( cula ) , তন্দুর (bn) ( tondur ) , উনান (bn) ( unan ) , আখা (bn) ( akha )
Bulgarian: фу́рна f ( fúrna ) , пещ (bg) f ( pešt )
Burmese: ပေါင်းဖို (my) ( paung:hpui )
Carpathian Rusyn: блóвдер m ( blóvder )
Catalan: forn (ca) m
Cherokee: ᏗᎦᏘᏗᎢ ( digatidii )
Chichewa: uvuni
Chinese:
Cantonese: 焗爐 / 焗炉 ( guk6 lou4 )
Hokkien: 烘爐 / 烘炉 (zh-min-nan) ( hang-lô͘ )
Mandarin: 烤爐 / 烤炉 (zh) ( kǎolú ) , 爐 / 炉 (zh) ( lú ) , 烘爐 / 烘炉 (zh) ( hōnglú )
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 (ka) ( 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 ( 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 ( pec ) , печка ( pecka )
Lao: ເຕົາອົບ ( tao ʼop ) , ເຕົາ ( tao )
Latin: furnus (la) 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 ) , фурна (mk) f ( furna )
Malay: ketuhar
Maori: umu , oumu
Mongolian: зуух (mn) ( zuux )
Neapolitan: furno m
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 )
Pontic Greek: φουρνίν n ( fournín )
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 )
Sardinian: forru m , furru m
Scottish Gaelic: àmhainn f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пећ f
Roman: peć 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 (ta) ( aṭuppu )
Tarifit: tafqunt f
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 , ( North ) popty (cy) m
West Frisian: ûne c
Yiddish: אויוון m ( oyvn )
Zhuang: gaujluz
Verb
oven (third-person singular simple present ovens , present participle ovening , simple past and past participle ovened )
( transitive , colloquial , informal ) To cook in an oven.
I'm gonna oven the pie for about 30 minutes, mate.
Further reading
oven on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
“oven ”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary , Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam , 1913 , →OCLC .
“oven ”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co. , 1911 , →OCLC .
“oven ”, in OneLook Dictionary Search .
Anagrams
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch ōven , from Old Dutch *ovan , from Proto-West Germanic *ofn , from Proto-Germanic *ufnaz .
Pronunciation
Noun
oven m (plural ovens , diminutive oventje n )
oven , furnace
De bakker bakte het verse brood in de oven . The baker baked the fresh bread in the oven .
De smelterij had verschillende grote ovens om metaal te smelten. The foundry had several large furnaces to melt metal.
Na het koken, liet ze het gerecht afkoelen in een kleine oven die op het aanrecht stond. After cooking, she let the dish cool down in a small oven placed on the countertop.
Derived terms
Descendants
Afrikaans: oond
Negerhollands: oven
→ Caribbean Javanese: ofen
→ Indonesian: oven
→ Sranan Tongo: onfu
Finnish
Noun
oven
genitive singular of ovi
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch oven , from Middle Dutch oven , from Old Dutch , from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz , *uhwnaz .
Pronunciation
Noun
oven or ovên
oven , a chamber used for baking or heating.
stove , hearth
Synonyms: tungku , dapur , perapian
furnace
Synonym: tanur
Derived terms
Further reading
Slovene
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ , from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas .
Pronunciation
Noun
óvən m anim
ram (male sheep)
Inflection
Further reading
“oven ”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU , portal Fran
“oven ”, in Termania , Amebis
See also the general references
Spanish
Pronunciation
Verb
oven
inflection of ovar :
third-person plural present subjunctive
third-person plural imperative