hen
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What does it mean? Question 1 of today’s quiz
Translations
Noun female chicken
- Spanish
- gallina
- French
- poule
- German
- Henne
- Italian
- gallina
- Portuguese
- galinha
- Turkish
- tavuk
- Russian
- ку́рица kúrica
- Arabic
- دَجَاجَة dajāja
- Chinese
- 母鸡 mǔjī
- Japanese
- 雌鶏 mendori
36 more languages
- Dutch
- hen
- Polish
- kura
- Swedish
- höna
- Greek
- κότα kóta
- Korean
- 암탉 amtak
- Indonesian
- ayam betina
- Vietnamese
- gà mái
- Hungarian
- tyúk
- Portuguese (PT)
- galinha
- Chinese (Trad.)
- 母雞 mǔjī
- Albanian
- pulë
- Breton
- yar
- Catalan
- gallina
- Corsican
- gallina
- Czech
- slepice
- Danish
- høne
- Esperanto
- kokino
- Estonian
- kana
- Finnish
- kana
- Georgian
- დედალი dedali
- Hebrew
- תרנגולת tarnególet
- Icelandic
- hæna
- Kurdish
- mirîşk
- Latvian
- vista
- Lithuanian
- višta
- Malagasy
- akohovavy
- Norwegian
- høne
- Romanian
- găină
- Scottish Gaelic
- cearc
- Serbo-Croatian
- kokoška
- Slovak
- sliepka
- Slovenian
- kokoš
- Swahili
- kuku jike
- Walloon
- poye
- Welsh
- iâr
- Yiddish
- הון hun
The main translation for each meaning, from the langtolang.com multilingual dictionary. Each word links to its full entry there.
Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: AS. henn, hen, hæn; akin to D. hen, OHG. henna, G. henne, Icel. h…na, Dan. höna; the fem. corresponding to AS. hana cock, D. haan, OHG. hano, G. hahn, Icel. hani, Dan. & Sw. hane. Prob. akin to L. canere to sing, and orig. meaning, a singer. Cf. Chanticleer.
Zoology The female of the domestic fowl; also, the female of grouse, pheasants, or any kind of birds; as, the heath hen; the gray hen.
☞ Used adjectively or in combination to indicate the female; as, hen canary, hen eagle, hen turkey, peahen.
Hen clam. Zoology (a) A clam of the Mactra, and allied genera; the sea clam or surf clam. See Surf clam. (b) A California clam of the genus Pachydesma. — Hen driver. See Hen harrier (below). — Hen harrier Zoology, a hawk (Circus cyaneus), found in Europe and America; — called also dove hawk, henharm, henharrow, hen driver, and usually, in America, marsh hawk. See Marsh hawk. — Hen hawk Zoology, one of several species of large hawks which capture hens; esp., the American red-tailed hawk (Buteo borealis), the red-shouldered hawk (Buteo lineatus), and the goshawk.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54