oven

See also: Oven, oven-, and övén

English

A man using an oven of a pizzeria.

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)).

The modern pronunciation shows an occasional sound change in which o is changed to u (compare with the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel).

Pronunciation

• (General American, Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈʌ.vn̩/
• (General American, UK) IPA^(key): /ˈʌv.ən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌvən

Noun

oven (plural ovens)

2. A chamber used for baking or heating.
   • 1982, “Sexual Healing”, in Midnight Love, performed by Marvin Gaye:

     Baby I'm hot just like an oven / I need some lovin'

3. (colloquial) A very hot place.
   • 2011, Vern Shutz, Memoirs of a Left Hander, page 96:

     The ballroom that evening was an absolute oven. I probably perspired more dancing then during the afternoon ballgame.

Derived terms

• Barnstaple oven
• black oven
• bottle oven
• camp oven
• cloam oven
• clome oven
• coke oven gas
• convection microwave oven
• convection oven
• conventional oven
• countertop oven
• crystal oven
• Dutch oven
• fan-assisted oven
• fan oven
• glost oven
• halogen oven
• have a bun in the oven
• induction oven
• microwave oven
• need more time in the oven
• ovenbird
• oven bottom
• oven bread
• oven chip
• oven dish
• oven dodger
• oven glove
• oven magnet
• oven mitt
• oven-proof
• oven rack
• oven-ready
• oven ring
• oven tit
• oven tit
• pizza oven
• reel oven
• roaster oven
• Russian oven
• science oven
• slow oven
• toaster oven

 

Translations

chamber used for baking or heating

• Afrikaans: oond
• Albanian: furrë (sq) f
• Arabic: فُرْن m (furn), تَنُّور m (tannūr)

  Egyptian Arabic: فرن m (furn)

  Hijazi Arabic: فُرُن m (furun)

  Moroccan Arabic: فرّان m (farrān)

• Aragonese: forno m
• Armenian: փուռ (hy) (pʻuṙ), վառարան (hy) (vaṙaran), ջեռոց (hy) (ǰeṙocʻ)
• Aromanian: furnu n, cireap n, cuptor n, cãminji f
• Assamese: চৌকা (souka), আখা (akha), ঘৰা (ghora), অভেন (obhen) (electric)
• Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܬܘܼܢܵܐ m (āttuna)
• Asturian: fornu (ast) m
• Azerbaijani: peç, duxovka, ocak (az)
• Bashkir: мейес (meyes)
• Basque: labe
• Belarusian: печ f (pječ), пе́чка f (pjéčka)
• Bengali: চুলা (bn) (cula), তন্দুর (bn) (tondur), উনান (bn) (unan), আখা (bn) (akha)
• Bulgarian: фу́рна f (fúrna), пещ (bg) f (pešt)
• Burmese: ပေါင်းဖို (my) (paung:hpui)
• Carpathian Rusyn: блóвдер m (blóvder)
• Catalan: forn (ca) m
• Cherokee: ᏗᎦᏘᏗᎢ (digatidii)
• Chichewa: uvuni
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 焗爐 / 焗炉 (guk⁶ lou⁴)

  Hokkien: 烘爐 / 烘炉 (zh-min-nan) (hang-lô͘)

  Mandarin: 烤爐 / 烤炉 (zh) (kǎolú), 爐 / 炉 (zh) (lú), 烘爐 / 烘炉 (zh) (hōnglú)

• Classical Nahuatl: texcalli, tlaxcaltexcalli
• Cornish: forn f
• Crimean Tatar: furun, pırım (northern dialect)
• Czech: trouba (cs) f, pec (cs) f
• Danish: ovn (da) c
• Dutch: oven (nl) m
• Esperanto: forno, bakujo
• Estonian: ahi (et)
• Finnish: uuni (fi)
• French: four (fr) m
• Friulian: fôr m
• Galician: forno (gl) m
• Georgian: ღუმელი (ka) (ɣumeli)
• German: Ofen (de) m

  Central Franconian: Ovve m

• Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 m (auhns)
• Greek: φούρνος (el) m (foúrnos)

  Ancient: ἰπνός m (ipnós), κάμινος m or f (káminos), κλίβανος m (klíbanos)

• Hausa: obin
• Hebrew: תַנוּר (he) m (tanur)
• Hindi: ओवन ? (ovan), चूल्हा (hi) m (cūlhā), तन्दूर m (tandūr)
• Hungarian: kemence (hu), sütő (hu)
• Icelandic: ofn (is) m
• Ido: forno (io), bakoforno (io)
• Indonesian: oven (id), tanur (id)
• Irish: oigheann (ga) m
• Istriot: furno m
• Italian: forno (it) m
• Japanese: オーブン (ja) (ōbun)
• Kazakh: пеш (peş)
• Khmer: ឡ (km) (lɑɑ)
• Korean: 오븐 (ko) (obeun)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: firrne (ku) f, ocax (ku) f, tenûr (ku) f, tebax (ku) f, argûn (ku) ?

• Kyrgyz: меш (meş), печь (pec), печка (pecka)
• Lao: ເຕົາອົບ (tao ʼop), ເຕົາ (tao)
• Latin: furnus (la) m, fornāx f
• Latvian: krāsns (lv) f
• Lithuanian: krosnis m
• Low German:

  German Low German: Aven (nds) ?

• Macedonian: ре́рна f (rérna) (electrical appliance), пе́чка f (péčka) (built), фурна (mk) f (furna)
• Malay: ketuhar
• Maori: umu, oumu
• Mongolian: зуух (mn) (zuux)
• Neapolitan: furno m
• Nepali: चुल्हो ? (culho)
• Norman: fou m (Jersey)
• Northern Sami: omman
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ovn (no) m, stekeovn m

  Nynorsk: omn m

• Occitan: forn (oc) m
• Old English: ofn m
• Ottoman Turkish: فرون (furun)
• Pashto: تنور (ps) m (tanúr)
• Persian: تنور (fa) (tanur)
• Plautdietsch: Owen m
• Polabian: pic f
• Polish: piekarnik (pl) m (appliance), piec (pl) m (built)
• Pontic Greek: φουρνίν n (fournín)
• Portuguese: forno (pt) m
• Romani: bov m
• Romanian: cuptor (ro) n, sobă (ro) f
• Romansch: furn m, fuorn m, furnel m, pigna f, pegna f
• Russian: печь (ru) f (pečʹ), пе́чка (ru) f (péčka), духо́вка (ru) f (duxóvka) (the actual chamber)
• Sardinian: forru m, furru m
• Scottish Gaelic: àmhainn f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: пећ f

  Roman: peć f

• Sicilian: furneddu m
• Silesian: bratruła f
• Sinhalese: අවන් (awan)
• Slovak: piecka f, pec f
• Slovene: peč (sl) f, pečica f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: pjac m (for baking), kamjeny pl (for heating)

• Spanish: horno (es) m
• Swedish: ugn (sv) c
• Tajik: танӯр (tg) (tanür), печка (tg) (pečka)
• Tamil: அடுப்பு (ta) (aṭuppu)
• Tarifit: tafqunt f
• Tatar: фурун (furun)
• Telugu: పొయ్యి (te) (poyyi)
• Thai: เตาอบ (th) (dtao-òp)
• Turkish: fırın (tr), ocak (tr)
• Turkmen: peç, ojak
• Udmurt: гур (gur)
• Ugaritic: 𐎚𐎐𐎐𐎗 (tnnr)
• Ukrainian: піч (uk) f (pič), пі́чка f (píčka)
• Urdu: تندور m (tandūr)
• Uyghur: ئوچاق (ochaq), دۇخوپكا (duxopka), تونۇر (tonur)
• Uzbek: pechka (uz), pech (uz), oʻchoq (uz), duxovka (uz)
• Veps: päč
• Vietnamese: lò (vi), lò nướng
• Volapük: furnod (vo)
• Walloon: for (wa) m
• Welsh: ffwrn (cy) f, (North) popty (cy) m
• West Frisian: ûne c
• Yiddish: אויוון m (oyvn)
• Zhuang: gaujluz

Verb

oven (third-person singular simple present ovens, present participle ovening, simple past and past participle ovened)

1. (transitive, colloquial, informal) To cook in an oven.

   I'm gonna oven the pie for about 30 minutes, mate.

Further reading

• oven on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “oven”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “oven”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “oven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• Veno, nevo-, veno-

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ōven, from Old Dutch *ovan, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *ufnaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.vən/

• Audio:

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• Audio (Belgium):

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• Hyphenation: oven
• Rhymes: -oːvən

Noun

oven m (plural ovens, diminutive oventje n)

1. oven, furnace

   De bakker bakte het verse brood in de oven.

   The baker baked the fresh bread in the oven.

   De smelterij had verschillende grote ovens om metaal te smelten.

   The foundry had several large furnaces to melt metal.

   Na het koken, liet ze het gerecht afkoelen in een kleine oven die op het aanrecht stond.

   After cooking, she let the dish cool down in a small oven placed on the countertop.

Derived terms

• bakoven
• droogoven
• gasoven
• heteluchtoven
• hoogoven
• houtoven
• kalkoven
• magnetronoven
• microgolfoven
• ovenfriet
• ovenschaal
• ovenschotel
• ovenvers
• ovenwant
• smeedoven
• steenoven
• stoomoven
• verbrandingsoven
• zonneoven

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: oond
• Negerhollands: oven
• → Caribbean Javanese: ofen
• → Indonesian: oven
• → Sranan Tongo: onfu
  • → Saramaccan: ónfu

Finnish

Noun

oven

1. genitive singular of ovi

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch oven, from Middle Dutch oven, from Old Dutch [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈo.vən]
• Hyphenation: o‧vên

Noun

oven or ovên

1. oven, a chamber used for baking or heating.
2. stove, hearth

   Synonyms: tungku, dapur, perapian

3. furnace

   Synonym: tanur

Alternative forms

• open

Derived terms

• oven gelombang mikro (“microwave oven”)
• ovenan (“baked”, adjective)

 

Further reading

• “oven” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Middle High German

Alternative forms

• ofen

Etymology

From Old High German ofan, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈovən/, /ˈofən/

Noun

oven m

1. oven

Declension

Declension of oven (masculine, class 1 strong)

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	dër	oven	die	oven, ovene
genitive	eines	dës	ovens, ovenes	dër	oven, ovene
dative	eime	dëm	oven, ovene	dën	ovenen
accusative	einen	dën	oven	die	oven, ovene

Related terms

• ovenhus
• ovenære

 

Descendants

• Central Franconian: Ovve, Owe, Oawe, Uawe (Moselle Franconian)
  • Hunsrik: Ove
  • Luxembourgish: Uewen
  • Transylvanian Saxon: Owen, Îewen
• German: Ofen
• Vilamovian: uwa
• Yiddish: אויוון (oyvn)

References

• Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “oven”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel
• "oven" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *ovьnъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *awinas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːʋən/

Noun

óvən m anim

1. ram (male sheep)

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine anim., hard o-stem
nom. sing.	ôven
gen. sing.	ôvna
	singular	dual	plural
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	ôven	ôvna	ôvni
genitive (rodȋlnik)	ôvna	ôvnov	ôvnov
dative (dajȃlnik)	ôvnu	ôvnoma	ôvnom
accusative (tožȋlnik)	ôvna	ôvna	ôvne
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	ôvnu	ôvnih	ôvnih
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	ôvnom	ôvnoma	ôvni

Further reading

• “oven”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran
• “oven”, in Termania, Amebis
• See also the general references

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈoben/ [ˈo.β̞ẽn]
• Rhymes: -oben
• Syllabification: o‧ven

Verb

oven

1. inflection of ovar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative