escran

Middle French

Etymology

Old French, borrowed from Middle Dutch scherm.

Noun

escran m (plural escrans)

1. screen (physical barrier for protection or to block out light)

Descendants

• French: écran
  • → Albanian: ekran
  • → Azerbaijani: ekran
  • → Bulgarian: екра́н (ekrán)
  • → Crimean Tatar: ekran
  • → Khmer: អេក្រង់ (eekrɑŋ)
  • → Polish: ekran
  • → Portuguese: ecrã, écran
  • → Romanian: ecran
  • → Russian: экран (ekran), экра́нъ (ekrán) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
    • → Armenian: էկրան (ēkran)
    • → Estonian: ekraan
    • → Lithuanian: ekranas
    • → Georgian: ეკრანი (eḳrani)
    • → Kazakh: экран (ékran)
    • → Uyghur: ئېكران (ëkran)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:
    • Cyrillic script: екран
    • Latin script: ekran
  • → Turkish: ekran
  • → Ukrainian: екра́н (ekrán)

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (escran, supplement)
• Etymology and history of “écran”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. (for the etymology)

Old French

Alternative forms

• escren, escrein

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch scherm.

Noun

escran oblique singular, m (oblique plural escrans, nominative singular escrans, nominative plural escran)

1. screen (physical barrier for protection or to block out light)

Descendants

• Middle French: escran
  • French: écran
    • → Albanian: ekran
    • → Azerbaijani: ekran
    • → Bulgarian: екра́н (ekrán)
    • → Crimean Tatar: ekran
    • → Khmer: អេក្រង់ (eekrɑŋ)
    • → Polish: ekran
    • → Portuguese: ecrã, écran
    • → Romanian: ecran
    • → Russian: экран (ekran), экра́нъ (ekrán) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
      • → Armenian: էկրան (ēkran)
      • → Estonian: ekraan
      • → Lithuanian: ekranas
      • → Georgian: ეკრანი (eḳrani)
      • → Kazakh: экран (ékran)
      • → Uyghur: ئېكران (ëkran)
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic script: екран
      • Latin script: ekran
    • → Turkish: ekran
    • → Ukrainian: екра́н (ekrán)
• → Middle English: scren, screne
  • English: screen

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (escran, supplement)
• Etymology and history of “écran”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012. (for the etymology)