Pronunciation of word pen

перо, ручка, авторучка, писатель, сочинять, запирать, заключать, загонять

существительное ↓

глагол ↓

Словосочетания

a song penned by George Clinton — песня, написанная Джорджем Клинтоном  
cattle pen — загон для скота  
to keep clicking one’s ballpoint pen — то и дело щёлкать шариковой ручкой  
with a dash of the pen — одним росчерком пера  
to dip a pen into ink — обмакнуть перо в чернила  
to draw one’s pen / quill against smb. — выступить в печати против кого-л.  
ballpoint pen — шариковая ручка  
a man of pen and ink — писатель  
to run a pen through smth. — зачеркнуть, перечеркнуть что-л. ручкой  
slip of the pen — описка  
boar pen — загон для свиней  

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Возможные однокоренные слова

penal  — уголовный, карательный, каторжный, уголовник
penance  — покаяние, епитимья, наказание, раскаяние, налагать епитимью
pennant  — вымпел, флаг, флажок, знамя, шкентель, висячий
pennies  — пенни, пенс, стоимостью в один пенс или один цент
pension  — пенсия, пансионат, пансион, пособие, назначать пенсию, субсидировать
unpen  — выпускать, освобождать, освобождать из заключения

Формы слова

verb
I/you/we/they: pen
he/she/it: pens
ing ф. (present participle): penning
2-я ф. (past tense): penned
3-я ф. (past participle): penned

noun
ед. ч.(singular): pen
мн. ч.(plural): pens

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /pɛn/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /pɪn/

• Audio (US-Inland North)

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Homophone: pin (pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English pen, penne (“enclosure for animals”), from Old English penn (“enclosure, fold, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *pennō, *pannijō (“pin, bolt, nail, tack”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pin.

Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to “enclosure for persons” (1845), later influenced by penitentiary (“prison”), being analyzed as an abbreviation (1884).^[1]

Noun[edit]

pen (plural pens)

1. An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.

   There are two steers in the third pen.

2. (slang) Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.

   They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.

3. (baseball) The bullpen.

   Two righties are up in the pen.

Derived terms[edit]

• bullpen
• Pen Mill (or perhaps from Etymology 3)

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• pin

Translations[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English pennen, from Old English *pennian (“to close, lock, bolt”, attested in onpennian (“to open”)), derived from penn (see above). Akin to Low German pennen (“to secure a door with a bolt”).

Verb[edit]

pen (third-person singular simple present pens, present participle penning, simple past and past participle penned or pent)

1. (transitive) To enclose in a pen.

Derived terms[edit]

• pent
• pent-up

Translations[edit]

Etymology 3[edit]

From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”) (from which petition). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra-, from which Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) (whence pterodactyl), Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feðer (Modern English feather);^[1] note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.

See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more.

Noun[edit]

pen (plural pens)

1. A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.

   He took notes with a pen.

2. (figurative) A writer, or their style.

   He has a sharp pen.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, James Nichols, editor, The Church History of Britain, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), new edition, London: […] [James Nichols] for Thomas Tegg and Son, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     those learned pens

3. (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.

   He’s unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.

4. A light pen.
5. (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.

   • 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 117:

     A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took.

6. (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
7. (poetic) A wing.

   • 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the book number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     but feather’d soon and fledge
     They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime

Derived terms[edit]

Translations[edit]

Verb[edit]

pen (third-person singular simple present pens, present participle penning, simple past and past participle penned)

1. (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).

   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nonuel:

     Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga’s treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork and intricate watercolor illustrations clearly show the hand of a master scribe.

   • 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     His two most recent films are last year’s Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.

   • 2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45:

     It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.

Translations[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

Origin uncertain. Compare hen.

Noun[edit]

pen (plural pens)

1. A female swan.

Synonyms[edit]

• swaness (rare)

Translations[edit]

Etymology 5[edit]

Clipping of penalty.

Noun[edit]

pen (plural pens)

1. (soccer, slang) Penalty.

References[edit]

Anagrams[edit]

• NEP, Nep, PNe, nep

Angloromani[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

• pan, pey

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Romani phen.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰen], [ˈpen], [pʰɛn]

Noun[edit]

pen

1. sister

   Synonyms: minnipen, rakla

   Sa see pal te pen? ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

• “pen”, in Angloromani Dictionary, The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006, page 132

Cumbric[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Brythonic *penn, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom, of uncertain derivation.

Noun[edit]

pen

1. head
2. top, summit

References[edit]

• Attested in Cumbric toponymic compounds and phrasal names (Pen-y-Ghent)

Danish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From late Old Norse penni, from Latin penna (“feather”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /pɛnˀ/, [pʰɛnˀ]

Noun[edit]

pen c (singular definite pennen, plural indefinite penne)

1. pen
2. quill
3. pane, peen

Declension[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Adjective[edit]

pen (neuter pent, plural and definite singular attributive pene, comparative penere, superlative (predicative) penest, superlative (attributive) peneste)

1. Obsolete spelling of pæn

Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Dutch penne, ultimately from Latin penna. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /pɛn/
• Hyphenation: pen
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun[edit]

pen f (plural pennen, diminutive pennetje n)

1. a long feather of a bird
2. pen (writing utensil)
3. pin

   Synonym: pin

Derived terms[edit]

Descendants[edit]

• Afrikaans: pen
• Negerhollands: pen
• → Caribbean Hindustani: pen
• → Caribbean Javanese: pèn
• → Indonesian: pen
• → Papiamentu: pèn, pen, pènchi, pennetsje (from the diminutive)
• → Sranan Tongo: pen
  • → Saramaccan: peni

Anagrams[edit]

• nep

Haitian Creole[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From French pain (“bread”).

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /pɛ̃/

Noun[edit]

pen

1. bread

Indonesian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɛn]
• Hyphenation: pèn

Etymology 1[edit]

From Dutch pen, from Latin penna (“feather, pen”). Doublet of pena.

Noun[edit]

pèn (first-person possessive penku, second-person possessive penmu, third-person possessive pennya)

1. (nonstandard) alternative form of pena (“pen”).
2. (medicine) pin, metal used to fasten or as a bearing.

Etymology 2[edit]

Verb[edit]

pen

1. (slang) syncopic form of pengen

Further reading[edit]

• “pen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

pen

1. Rōmaji transcription of ペン

Mandarin[edit]

Romanization[edit]

pen

1. Nonstandard spelling of pēn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of pén.
3. Nonstandard spelling of pěn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of pèn.

Usage notes[edit]

• Transcriptions of Mandarin speech into the Roman alphabet often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mapudungun[edit]

Verb[edit]

pen (Raguileo spelling)

1. to see

   Synonym: petun

Middle English[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Anglo-Norman penne.

Noun[edit]

pen

2. Alternative form of penne

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English penn, from Proto-Germanic *pennō, perhaps from the root of pinn (“peg, pin”).

Alternative forms[edit]

• penne, peyn

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /pɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun[edit]

pen

2. A enclosed structure for securing animals.

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Descendants[edit]

• English: pen
• Scots: pen

References[edit]

• “pen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “pen”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

Mindiri[edit]

Noun[edit]

pen

1. woman

Further reading[edit]

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from French.

Adjective[edit]

pen (neuter singular pent, definite singular and plural pene, comparative penere, indefinite superlative penest, definite superlative peneste)

1. nice

   pent vær ― nice weather

2. neat
3. beautiful, pretty
4. handsome, good-looking

References[edit]

• “pen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Possibly from French.

Adjective[edit]

pen (neuter singular pent, definite singular and plural pene, comparative penare, indefinite superlative penast, definite superlative penaste)

1. nice

   pent vêr ― nice weather

2. neat
3. beautiful, pretty
4. handsome, good-looking

References[edit]

• “pen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Cornish[edit]

From Proto-Celtic *kʷennom.

Noun[edit]

pen

1. head

Rade[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from French pince.

Noun[edit]

pen

1. pincers

Romani[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

pen

1. themselves (third-person plural reflexive pronoun)

See also[edit]

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Tok Pisin[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From English paint.

Noun[edit]

pen

1. paint

Etymology 2[edit]

From English pen.

Noun[edit]

pen

1. pen

Etymology 3[edit]

From English pain.

Noun[edit]

pen

1. pain

   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:16:

     Na God i tokim meri olsem, “Bai mi givim yu bikpela hevi long taim yu gat bel. Na bai yu gat bikpela pen long taim yu karim pikinini. Tasol bai yu gat bikpela laik yet long man bilong yu, na bai em i bosim yu.”

     →New International Version translation

Volapük[edit]

Noun[edit]

pen (nominative plural pens)

1. pen

Declension[edit]

Welsh[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh penn, from Proto-Brythonic *penn, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom.

Pronunciation[edit]

• IPA^(key): /pɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Noun[edit]

pen m (plural pennau)

1. (anatomy) head
2. chief
3. top, apex
4. end, extremity

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Adjective[edit]

pen (feminine singular pen, plural pen, equative penned, comparative pennach, superlative pennaf)

1. head
2. chief
3. supreme, principal

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
pen	ben	mhen	phen
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References[edit]

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

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