sheen

Betekenis (English)

Adj

Beautiful, good-looking, attractive; radiant; shiny.

Noun

1. Splendor; radiance; shininess.
2. A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.

Verb

To shine; to glisten.

Noun

The letter ش in the Arabic script.

Synonyms

luster

shine

shininess

lustre

brilliance

radiance

splendor

resplendence

shimmer

gloss

glow

splendour

lucency

splendidness

brightness

lucence

eclat

glint

lustrousness

resplendency

luminescence

beautiful

mystique

pomp

pupil

reflection

refulgence

shiner

base coin

reflected light

refulgency

luxuriousness

blaze

bloom

bright

burnish

car

🚗

flair

glamor

glamour

glare

glaze

gleam

gleaming

glimmer

glisten

glitter

glory

glowing

grandeur

lambency

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/ʃiːn/

Etimologie (English)

Inherited from Middle English: shene

Inherited from Old English: sċīene

Cognate with Skots: schene

Cognate with Saterfriesisch: skeen

Cognate with Fries: skjin

Cognate with Nederlands: schoon

Cognate with Duits: schön

Cognate with Deens: skøn

Cognate with Boeknoors: skjønn

Cognate with Nuwe Noors: skjønn

Cognate with Sweeds: skön

Cognate with Fins: kaunis

Cognate with Engels: show

In summary

From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-.
Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.