dhen

• dhên, dhênd — Gheg
• dhën — Tosk

Plurale tantum; from the Gheg variant dhênd, from Proto-Albanian *dzenti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁tis, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce, to beget, to give birth”). Compare Latin gens, English kin.

• IPA^(key): /ðɛn/

dhen f pl (definite plural dhentë)

1. small livestock, caprids (sheep, goats)
2. flock or herd of caprids

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• “dhen”, in FMGJSH: Fjalor i madh i gjuhës shqipe (in Albanian), 2026

dhen

1. soft mutation of den

From Proto-Athabaskan.

dhen

1. to intend

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 145-147

• IPA^(key): /ʝɛn/^[1], /jɛn/

dhen

1. contraction of dhe +‎ an, literally “from/off the (singular)”

The dh represents a voiced dental fricative, the same as in English that. Compare then, another obsolete spelling of the same word.

dhen c

1. obsolete spelling of den

dhen c (definite)

1. obsolete spelling of den

Borrowed from Moroccan Arabic دهن (dhan).

dhen (verbal noun adhan, Tifinagh spelling ⴷⵀⴻⵏ)

1. (transitive) to butter, to oil, to lubricate, to apply lotion
2. (transitive, figuratively) to beat

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

From Middle English ten, from Old English tīen, from Proto-West Germanic *tehun. Cognates include English ten and Scots ten.

• IPA^(key): /d̪ɛn/

dhen

1. ten
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 21:

     Dhen aager.

     Ten-acres.

   • 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:

     Aar was Parick o Dearmoth, an dhen score besidh,

     There was Patrick o Deormod, and ten score beside,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 34