Farn

Meaning

fern

bracken

brake

ferns

fern with white-backed leaves

sorbus japonica

azollaceae

lygodium

salviniales

Frequency

Gender

♂️ Masculine

Pronounced as (IPA)

/farn/

From Middle High German farn, from Old High German farn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn, from Proto-Indo-European *pornóm (“feather, wing; fern, leaf”), from *p(t)erH- (“fern”). Cognate with English fern, West Frisian fear, Dutch varen, Lithuanian spar̃nas, Avestan 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀 (par^əna), Kamkata-viri por, Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá).