teren

teren

1. genitive indefinite of te

• Hyphenation: te‧ren

teren

1. deep, profound
2. dark (with compound words)

• “teren”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

• IPA^(key): /ˈteːrə(n)/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -eːrən

From Middle Dutch tēren (“to destroy, to use (up)”), from Old Dutch *terien, from Proto-Germanic *tarjaną, related to *teraną (“to tear, rip apart”). Cognate with German zehren. Also related with English tear (“to rip”).

teren

1. (intransitive) to eat or drink what is necessary to survive
2. (intransitive) to live, survive by consumption
3. (intransitive, archaic) to rot, to decompose, to waste away
4. (intransitive, archaic) to be digested

From Middle Dutch teren, terren. Equivalent to teer +‎ -en.

teren

1. (transitive) to tar

• beteren

• rente

tere (“on the ground”) +‎ -n

• IPA^(key): /ˈteren/
• Rhymes: -eren
• Hyphenation: te‧ren

teren

1. to the ground, onto the ground
   • 1907, Kabe, chapter 21, in La Faraono, part 1, Hachette, translation of Faraon by Bolesław Prus:

     La popolo, en festaj vestoj, kun branĉetoj en la manoj, formis spaliron kaj kriis, kantis aŭ falis teren antaŭ la kronprinco.

     The people, in festive clothes and with twigs in their hands, formed a row and shouted, sang, or fell to the ground in front of the crown prince.

From Latin terrēnum. Cf. Italian terreno.

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teren m (plural terens)

1. terrain, ground, land, country

• tiere
• terest

teren

1. third-person plural personal infinitive of ter

From Old Dutch *terien, from Proto-Germanic *tarjaną, related to *teraną (“to tear, rip apart”).

tēren

1. to consume, to use up
2. to eat
3. to digest

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• Dutch: teren
  • Afrikaans: teer
• Limburgish: taere

• “teren”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “teren (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

Inherited from Old English teran, from Proto-West Germanic *teran, from Proto-Germanic *teraną.

• teer, teere, tere, tern, teryn, teer

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːrən/, /ˈtɛːrn/

teren (third-person singular simple present tereth, present participle terynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tar, past participle torn)

1. To tear; to split apart or off (often by ripping):
   1. To tear off a body part (often by hand).
   2. To pull out hair (or another body part).
2. To ruin; to devastate:
   1. To damage or destroy garments or hair.
   2. To demolish a building; to raze or level.
   3. (usually in the past participle) To make tattered or worn; to overuse.
3. To puncture or impale; to make a hole.
4. To lash; to strike skin with a whip.
5. (rare) To forcibly move or remove.

Weak forms occasionally appear in this verb, possibly from a Class 1 weak Old English *teran (distinct from attested strong teran).

• English: tear
• Scots: tere, teir, tair

• “tēren, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

From teer (“tear”) +‎ -en (infinitival suffix).

• tere

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛːrən/

teren (third-person singular simple present tereth, present participle terende, terynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tered) (rare)

2. To cry; to produce tears.

• English: tear
• Scots: tear

• “tēren, v.(3).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-25.

From tere (“tear”) +‎ -en (“plural suffix”).

teren (rare)

1. plural of teer (“tear”)

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teren

1. neck, throat

Internationalism; possibly borrowed from French terrain or English terrain, ultimately from Latin terrēnum. First attested in the 19th century.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtɛ.rɛn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛrɛn
• Syllabification: te‧ren

teren m inan (related adjective terenowy)

1. (countable) terrain, land, turf (area of land surface together with a specific shape, vegetation and natural resources, constituting a certain whole)

   Synonyms: kraina, krajobraz, kraj, okolica, strony

2. (countable) grounds, site (an area with defined boundaries, organized into a single whole)
3. (countable) field, site (place of action)

   Synonym: pole

4. (uncountable, colloquial) division, branch, section, subdivision, department, subsection, sector, unit (area governed by local administration or local branches of some institution or organization, perceived as opposed to the headquarters)

   Antonym: centrala

5. (countable, literary) field (area of someone's activities)

   Synonym: dziedzina

6. (countable, colloquial) splash zone (area covered by the zone of someone's operation)

   Synonym: dziedzina

According to Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej (1990), teren is one of the most used words in Polish, appearing 40 times in scientific texts, 86 times in news, 71 times in essays, 20 times in fiction, and 9 times in plays, each out of a corpus of 100,000 words, totaling 226 times, making it the 243rd most common word in a corpus of 500,000 words.

• teren in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• teren in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from French terrain, from Vulgar Latin *terrānum, from Latin terrēnum.

• IPA^(key): /teˈren/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -en
• Hyphenation: te‧ren

teren n (plural terenuri)

1. plot of land (as a commodity or otherwise)

   teren intravilan ― plot of land within city limits

   teren extravilan ― plot of land outside city limits, greenfield

   teren agricol ― agricultural plot

   teren minat ― minefield

   • 1942, Ion Agârbiceanu, “Valurile, vânturile… ”, in Opere , volume 6, Bucharest: Minerva, published 1971, page 372:

     Toate instalațiile ocupau, la marginea orașului, un teren vast, înconjurat cu zid înalt de beton.

     All the facilities were occupying a vast plot of land, surrounded by a tall concrete wall, at the edge of the city.

   • 2016 February 15, Dinu Boboc, “Aproape jumătate din terenurile agricole din România, cumpărate de străini ”, in Evenimentul zilei, number 7643, →ISSN, page 10:

     Într-un clasament al cumpărătorilor de teren agricol din România, pe primele locuri se află Italia, urmată de Germania și de țările arabe.

     In a ranking of agricultural land buyers in Romania, Italy is on the first place, followed by Germany and the Arab countries.

2. (uncountable) terrain (land as defined by its features)

   teren accidentat ― rugged terrain

3. (sports) field, pitch
4. (figurative) field, domain (of knowledge, work, study)

   Synonyms: câmp, domeniu

5. (geology) terrain (area defined by rock formations)

• subteran
• țară

• “teren”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2025
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1982), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎, volume 11, part 2, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, pages 199–200

Borrowed from French terrain.

• IPA^(key): /těreːn/
• Hyphenation: te‧ren

tèrēn m (Cyrillic spelling тѐре̄н)

1. terrain