oven

Meaning

Noun

1. A chamber used for baking or heating.
2. (colloquial) A very hot place.

Verb

To cook in an oven

Concepts

oven

stove

furnace

kiln

fireplace

fire-place

hearth

oast

heater

burner

cooker

tandoor

iron

toaster

boiler

iron box

big

incinerator

bakery

heating-furnace

mill furnace

reheating funace

attemperator

calorstat

constant temperature cabinet

incubator

thermostat

thermostated container

thermotank

batch

burners

heat

bake out furnace

bake oven

baking box

baking oven

cabinet drier

dry oven

drying oven baker

bake

barbecue

charcoal burner

midden

platform

fire

cookstove

kitchen stove

earth oven

herd

roasting

cooking stove

chimney

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈʌ.vn̩/

Etymology

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (compare Dutch oven, Low German Aven, West Frisian ûne, German Ofen, Danish ovn, Norwegian Bokmål ovn, Norwegian Nynorsk omn, Swedish ugn, Icelandic ofn, Finnish uuni, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā), Albanian anë, Latin aulla, olla, Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós)).