hen

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A female chicken (Gallus gallus), particularly a sexually mature one kept for her eggs.
2. A female of other bird species, particularly a sexually mature female fowl.
3. (uncommon) A female fish (especially a salmon or trout) or crustacean.
4. (figuratively) A woman.
5. (UK, figuratively, informal) A woman.
6. (UK, informal) A hen night.
7. (Scotland, informal) An affectionate term of address used to women or girls.
8. The penis of a trans woman.
9. (derogatory, figuratively, uncommon) A henlike person of either sex.
10. The hard clam (Mercenaria mercenaria), a bivalve shellfish.
11. (obsolete) A large pewter pot used in a tavern.

Verb

Synonym of mother-hen.

Adv

Hence.

Verb

To throw.

Concetti

gallina

🐔

pollo

🐔

gallo

🐓

chioccia

cocca

sinonimi

chicken

🐔

fowl

rooster

🐓

cock

biddy

chook

dove

🕊️

spider

🕷️

domestic fowl

dam

doe

duffy

female

♀️

goose

🪿

hens

loader

partridge

pea

she

👩

female bird

Newfoundland fish

bacaleau

baccalao

baccale

baccalo

bank fish

berry fish

blackberry fish

bull dog

codd

codde

fall fish

foxy tom-cod

Atlantic cod

turkey stuffed

bacalao

bank cod

female domestic fowl

grog fish

haberdine

harbour tom-cod

inshore cod

kil’din cod

logy fish

mother fish

northern cod

old soaker

red-cod

tally fish

tom-cod

Traduzioni

poule

🐔

gallina

🐔

Henne

🐔

Huhn

🐔

hen

galinha

🐔

kip

🐔

κότα

tavuk

🐔

gallina

🐔

gallina

🐔

poulet

🐔

pollo

🐔

دجاجة

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/hɛn/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: hen

Ereditato da inglese antico: henn

Affine saterfriesisch: Hanne

Affine frisone occidentale: hin

Affine olandese: hen

Affine tedesco: Henne

Affine danese: høne

Affine svedese: höna

Affine islandese: hæna

Affine inglese antico: hana

Affine latino: cicōnia

Affine latino: canō

Affine russo: каню́к

Ereditato da inglese medio: henne

Ereditato da inglese antico: heonan

Affine olandese: heen

Affine tedesco: hin

Affine danese: hen

In summary

From Middle English hen, from Old English henn (“hen”), from Proto-West Germanic *hannju, from Proto-Germanic *hanjō (“hen”), from Proto-Indo-European *kan-, *kana- (“to sing”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hanne (“hen”), West Frisian hin (“hen”), Dutch hen (“hen”), German Low German Heen (“hen”), German Henne (“hen”), Danish høne (“hen”), Swedish höna (“hen”), Icelandic hæna (“hen”). Related to Old English hana (“cock, rooster”). Also cognate to Latin cicōnia (“stork”), Latin canō (“to sing”), Russian каню́к (kanjúk, “buzzard”). Compare Russian пету́х (petúx, “rooster, cock”) from Russian петь (petʹ, “to sing”).
Sense 7 after cock (“male chicken; man's penis”).