फेन

Sanskrit

Alternative scripts
Alternative scripts
  • ᬨᬾᬦ (Balinese script)
  • ফেন (Assamese script)
  • ফেন (Bengali script)
  • 𑰣𑰸𑰡 (Bhaiksuki script)
  • 𑀨𑁂𑀦 (Brahmi script)
  • 𑌫𑍇𑌨 (Grantha script)
  • ફેન (Gujarati script)
  • ਫੇਨ (Gurmukhi script)
  • ꦦꦺꦤ (Javanese script)
  • ផេន (Khmer script)
  • ಫೇನ (Kannada script)
  • ເຜນ (Lao script)
  • ഫേന (Malayalam script)
  • 𑘣𑘹𑘡 (Modi script)
  • ᠹᠧᠨᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
  • ᡦᡝᠨᠠ (Manchu script)
  • ဖေန (Burmese script)
  • 𑧃𑧚𑧁 (Nandinagari script)
  • 𑐦𑐾𑐣 (Newa script)
  • ଫେନ (Odia script)
  • ꢧꢾꢥ (Saurashtra script)
  • 𑆦𑆼𑆤 (Sharada script)
  • 𑖣𑖸𑖡 (Siddham script)
  • ඵෙන (Sinhalese script)
  • பே²ந (Tamil script)
  • ఫేన (Telugu script)
  • เผน (Thai script)
  • ཕེ་ན (Tibetan script)
  • 𑒤𑒹𑒢 (Tirhuta script)

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)pHóy-nh₂-os, from *(s)poH(y)- (“foam”). Cognate with Lithuanian spáinė, Russian пе́на (péna), Latin pūmex (“pumice”), spuma (“froth”), Old English fām (whence English foam).

Pronunciation

Noun

फेन • (phéna) stem, m or n

  1. foam, froth, scum
    • c. 1700 BCE – 1200 BCE, Ṛgveda 8.14.13:
      अपां फेनेन नमुचेः शिर इन्द्रोदवर्तयः ।
      apāṃ phenena namuceḥ śira indrodavartayaḥ .
      With waters' foam thou torest off, Indra, the head of Namuci
  2. moisture of the lips, saliva
  3. white cuttlefish bone, supposed to be indurated foam of the sea

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Derived terms

Proper noun

फेन • (phéna) stem, m

  1. name of a man

Declension

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Descendants
  • Pali: pheṇa
  • Dardic:
  • Magadhi Prakrit:
  • → Tamil: பேனம் (pēṉam)

Further reading
  • Hellwig, Oliver (2010-2024), “phena”, in DCS - The Digital Corpus of Sanskrit, Berlin, Germany.
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