Föhn

See also: fohn, foehn, föhn, and fœhn

German

Alternative forms

• Fön

Etymology

From Old High German phonno, from Vulgar Latin *faōnius, from Latin Favōnius (“Favonius”), a Roman wind god.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /føːn/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

Föhn m (strong, genitive Föhns, plural Föhne or Föhns)

1. (meteorology) foehn (warm wind which appears on the leeward side of mountains, for example on the northern side of the alps in south Germany)
2. hair dryer

   Synonym: Haartrockner (formal), Heißluftdusche, Luftdusche

Usage notes

• The normal plural is Föhne.
• The plural Föhns is quite often heard in the vernacular.
• Fön is a trademark that was not affected by the 1996 spelling reform, and remains in use as an alternative spelling for the hair-dryer sense only.

Declension

Declension of Föhn [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Föhn	die	Föhne, Föhns
genitive	eines	des	Föhns	der	Föhne, Föhns
dative	einem	dem	Föhn	den	Föhnen, Föhns
accusative	einen	den	Föhn	die	Föhne, Föhns

Descendants

• → Catalan: foehn
• → Chinese:

  Mandarin: 焚風／焚风 (fénfēng)

• → Czech: fén
• → Danish: føn
• → Dutch: föhn
  • → Indonesian: fon
• → English: foehn
• → Finnish: föhn
• → French: foehn
• → Hebrew: פֶן (fen)
• → Hungarian: főn
• → Italian: föhn, fon, föhn
• → Macedonian: фен (fen)
• → Russian: фен (fen)
  • → Armenian: ֆեն (fen)
• → Serbo-Croatian: fen
• → Slovak: fén, fön
• → Swedish: fön, föhn (strong wind)
  • → Finnish: fööni
• → Turkish: fön
• → Ukrainian: фен (fen)

Further reading

• “Föhn” in Duden online
• Föhn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• “Föhn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache