Dictionary Definition
hen
Noun
1 adult female chicken [syn: biddy]
2 adult female bird
3 flesh of an older chicken suitable for
stewing
4 female of certain aquatic animals e.g. octopus
or lobster
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From henn.Pronunciation
- /hɛn/
- Rhymes with: -ɛn
Derived terms
Translations
female bird
- Czech: slepice
- Danish: høne
- Dutch: wijfje, hen
- German: Weibchen
- Greek: πουλάδα
- Spanish: ave hembra
female chicken
- Arabic: دَجاجَه
- Bosnian: kokoška, kokoš
- Bulgarian: кокошка
- Chinese:
- Cantonese:
- Mandarin: 母鸡 (mǔ jī)
- Cantonese:
- Croatian: kokoška, kokoš
- Czech: slepice
- Danish: høne
- Dutch: hen, kip, leghen, legkip
- Esperanto: kokino
- Estonian: kana
- Ewe: koklonɔ
- Finnish: kana
- French: poule
- German: Henne , Legehenne
- Greek: κότα (kóta) , όρνιθα (órnitha)
- Hungarian: tyúk
- Irish: cearc
- Italian: gallina
- Japanese: 雌鶏, めんどり
- Korean: 암탉 (amtalg)
- Latin: gallina
- Latvian: vista
- Low Saxon: Hohn
- Norwegian: høne
- Polish: kura
- Portuguese: galinha
- Russian: курица
- Scottish Gaelic: cearc
- Serbian:
- Cyrillic: кокошка, кокош
- Roman: kokoška, kokoš
- Cyrillic: кокошка, кокош
- Slovene: kokoš, kura, koklja (broody hen)
- Spanish: gallina
- Swedish: höna
- Tamil: khozhi
- Telugu: కోడిపెట్ట
- Turkish: tavuk
slang: woman
- Dutch: moederkloek
- Greek: κότα (kóta)
- Russian: пизда
See also
Danish
Adverb
Dutch
Pronoun
Japanese
Noun
Mandarin
Adverb
- very; quite; awfully
- zhe fen baozhi you hen duo guanggao. "This newspaper has a
lot of advertisement."
- zheli de kongqi hen hao. "The air is very good here."
- zhege guniang hen piaoliang. "This girl is very beautiful."
- zhe jian canting de shiwu haochi, danshi hen gui. — The food of this restaurant is delicious, but it is very expensive.
- (zhè jiān cāntīng de shíwù hǎochī, dànshì hěn guì. — 这间餐厅的食物好吃,但是很贵.)
- zhe jian yiyuan li you hen duo bingren. "There are many patients in this hospital."
- zheli de kongqi hen hao. "The air is very good here."
- zhe fen baozhi you hen duo guanggao. "This newspaper has a
lot of advertisement."
Pinyin syllable
henUsage notes
English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.Scots
Noun
- Term of address for a woman.
- Alright Mary hen?
Welsh
Usage notes
- This word triggers a soft mutation in the word that follows it.
Extensive Definition
Hen may refer to:
- Hen, a female bird, a female of any member of the bird family, including species of poultry, duck, fowl, ostrich or emu.
- Hen, specifically a female adult chicken
- Hen, a female octopus or lobster
- Hen (slang), a woman
- Hen, Buskerud in Ringerike municipality, Buskerud, Norway
- Hen, Møre og Romsdal in Rauma municipality, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
- Hen (manga), a manga created by Hiroya Oku
- H.E.N; or Homebrew Enabler; a community mod for PSP
- Hendon railway station, England; National Rail station code HEN
See also
Henn's live in Mission there are many henns there i like the Henns we are pretty amazingXD☼hen in Breton: Yar
hen in French: Poule
hen in Italian: HEN
hen in Dutch: Hen
hen in Japanese: HEN
hen in Norwegian: Hen (andre
betydninger)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Bantam,
Jane, Partlet, banty, barn-door fowl, barnyard
fowl, biddy, bird, bitch, bossy, broad, broiler, brood mare, brooder, broody hen, capon, chanticleer, chick, chickabiddy, chicken, chicky, cock, cockerel, cow, dame, doe, doll, domestic fowl, drake, duck, duckling, dunghill fowl,
ewe, ewe lamb, filly, fowl, fryer, game fowl, gander, gobbler, goose, gosling, guinea cock, guinea
fowl, guinea hen, gyp,
heifer, hen turkey,
hind, jenny, lioness, mare, minx, nanny, nanny goat, partlet, peahen, poulard, poult, poultry, pullet, roaster, roe, rooster, setting hen, she-bear,
she-goat, she-lion, skirt,
slut, sow, spring chicken, stewing
chicken, tigress,
tom, tom turkey, tomato, turkey, turkey gobbler,
turkey-cock, vixen,
wench