oven

From Middle English oven, from Old English ofn (“oven”), from Proto-West Germanic *ofn (“oven”), from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz, *uhwnaz (“oven”). Cognate with West Frisian ûne (“oven”), Dutch oven (“oven”), Low German Aven (“oven”), German Ofen (“oven”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ovn (“oven”), Faroese ovnur (“oven”), Icelandic ofn (“oven”), Norwegian Nynorsk omn (“oven”), Swedish ugn (“oven”), Finnish uuni (“oven”), Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌽𐍃 (auhns, “oven”)), probably from a Proto-Indo-European *aukʷ- (“cooking pot”), *Hukʷ-, *ukʷnos (compare Sanskrit उखा (ukhā, “boiler, cauldron”), Albanian anë (“vessel, cooker”), Latin aulla, olla (“pot, jar”), Ancient Greek ἰπνός (ipnós, “oven, furnace”)).

The modern pronunciation shows an sound change in which Middle English /ɔv/ is changed to /uv/; compare the phonetic development of Coventry and shovel.

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

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• Rhymes: -ʌvən

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, figurative) 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.

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.

• oven on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “oven”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “oven”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “oven”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Veno, nevo-, veno-

From Old Danish ouæn, from Old Norse ofan. Compare German auf, Old English ufan.

oven

1. above

oven

1. (rarely outside of fixed expressions) placed higher up than

• oven senge
• oven vande

• “oven” in Den Danske Ordbog

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈoː.vən/

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• Hyphenation: oven
• Rhymes: -oːvən

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.

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

oven

1. genitive singular of ovi

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

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈovən/ [ˈo.fən]
• Rhymes: -ovən
• Syllabification: o‧ven

ovên (plural oven-oven)

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

   Synonyms: tungku, dapur, perapian

3. furnace

   Synonym: tanur

• open

• “oven”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

• ove, ovene
• hoven, hovene, ovenne, oone, ooven, ovyn, owven (Late Middle English)
• howyn, owyn, ufne (East Anglia); ovin (West Riding)

Inherited from Old English ofn, ofen, from Proto-West Germanic *ofn, from Proto-Germanic *uhnaz.

• (from the Old English nominative) IPA^(key): /ˈɔ̞ːvə(n)/
• (from the Old English inflected forms) IPA^(key): /ˈɔvən/, (raised) /ˈuvən/, (Northern) /ˈyːvən/, (Northwest Midland) /ˈoːvən/

oven (plural ovenes, dative singular ovene)

1. An oven; an enclosed chamber for baking or drying.
2. A kiln, furnace, stove, or other heated chamber (for ceramics, dyes, lime, or metal)
3. (Christianity) The torturous fires of Hell.

• English: oven (dialectal oon, yewn)
  • Krio: óvìn
  • → Chichewa: úvuni
  • → Korean: 오븐 (obeun)
  • → Japanese: オーブン (ōbun)
  • → Middle Scots: ovin, owin
    • Scots: oven
• Middle Scots: oyne, une
  • Scots: une, oon

• “ō̆ven, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• ofen

Inherited from Old High German ofan.

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

oven m

1. oven

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /ɔ̀ːʋən/

óvən m anim

1. ram (male sheep)

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

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

oven

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