teren

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See also: téren and terén

Basque

Noun

teren

  1. genitive indefinite of te

Crimean Tatar

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: te‧ren

Adjective

teren

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

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References

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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).

Verb

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
Inflection
Inflection of teren (weak)
infinitive teren
past singular teerde
past participle geteerd
infinitive teren
gerund teren n
present tense past tense
1st person singular teer teerde
2nd person sing. (jij) teert teerde
2nd person sing. (u) teert teerde
2nd person sing. (gij) teert teerde
3rd person singular teert teerde
plural teren teerden
subjunctive sing.1 tere teerde
subjunctive plur.1 teren teerden
imperative sing. teer
imperative plur.1 teert
participles terend geteerd
1) Archaic.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Verb

teren

  1. (transitive) to tar
Inflection
Inflection of teren (weak)
infinitive teren
past singular teerde
past participle geteerd
infinitive teren
gerund teren n
present tense past tense
1st person singular teer teerde
2nd person sing. (jij) teert teerde
2nd person sing. (u) teert teerde
2nd person sing. (gij) teert teerde
3rd person singular teert teerde
plural teren teerden
subjunctive sing.1 tere teerde
subjunctive plur.1 teren teerden
imperative sing. teer
imperative plur.1 teert
participles terend geteerd
1) Archaic.
Derived terms

Anagrams

Esperanto

Etymology

tere (on the ground) +‎ -n

Pronunciation

Adverb

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.

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin terrēnum. Cf. Italian terreno.

Pronunciation

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Noun

teren m (plural terens)

  1. terrain, ground, land, country

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Galician

Verb

teren

  1. third-person plural personal infinitive of ter

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Verb

tēren

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

Inflection

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Descendants

  • Dutch: teren
  • Limburgish: taere

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛːrən/, /ˈtɛːrn/

Verb

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.
Usage notes

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

Conjugation
Descendants
References

Etymology 2

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

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Verb

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

  1. To cry; to produce tears.
Conjugation
Descendants
References

Etymology 3

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

Noun

teren (rare)

  1. plural of teer (tear)

Nauruan

Etymology

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Pronunciation

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Noun

teren

  1. neck, throat

Polish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈtɛ.rɛn/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛrɛn
  • Syllabification: te‧ren

Noun

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) or
    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

Declension

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nouns

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adverb
noun

Trivia

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.

References

  1. ^ Stanisław Dubisz, editor (2003), “teren”, in Uniwersalny słownik języka polskiego [Universal dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volumes 1-4, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe PWN SA, →ISBN
  2. ^ J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1919), “teren”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 7, Warsaw, page 48
  3. ^ teren in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego
  4. ^ Ida Kurcz (1990) “teren”, in Słownik frekwencyjny polszczyzny współczesnej [Frequency dictionary of the Polish language]‎ (in Polish), volume 2, Kraków, Warszawa: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Języka Polskiego, page 601

Further reading

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

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

teren n (plural terenuri)

  1. pitch (the field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played)
  2. terrain, plot of land, ground, field, soil

Declension

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Further reading

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from French terrain.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

tèrēn m (Cyrillic spelling тѐре̄н)

  1. terrain

Declension