fren

• enPR: frĕn, IPA^(key): /fɹɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

From Middle English frenne, contracted from forrene (“foreign”). See foreign (adjective).

fren (plural frens)

1. (obsolete) A stranger.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Aprill. Ægloga Quarta.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, →OCLC:

     So now his friend is changed for a fren

• “fren”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

fren (plural frens or frenz)

1. Pronunciation spelling of friend.
2. (Internet slang) A fellow, a friend.

   Antonym: nonfren

3. (alt-right, Internet slang) A fellow white nationalist or fascist, a comrade on the far right.

   Antonym: nonfren

• After gaining popularity online as part of DoggoLingo-style slang, fren later came to prominence on sites such as 4chan and the subreddit /r/frenworld as a dog whistle used by far-right white nationalists and fascists to refer to each other. This use is associated with the Apu Apustaja variation of the meme Pepe the Frog. It has been reinterpreted in this context as standing for “far-right ethno-nationalist” (a backronym).

• Fern, fern, nerf

From Latin frēnum.

fren m (plural frens)

1. brake
2. bit
3. restraint, curb, check, bridle

Derived from English friend.

IPA^(key): /fɹen/

fren (plural fren dem, quantified fren)

1. friend
   • 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, 3 Jan 1:1:

     Da leta ya a kom fram mi, di elda — tu mi speshal fren, Gaiyos. Mi fren, mi riili riili lov yu.

     This letter comes from the elder to Gaius, my dear friend, whom I love in the truth.

• fren at majstro.com

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin frēnum.

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fren m (plural frens)

1. bit, bridle
2. brake

• frenar

• (Hawick) IPA^(key): /ˈfren/

fren (third-person singular simple present frens, present participle frennin, simple past frennit, past participle frennit)

1. (poetic) To rage; to be in a state of rage.

• frenfi (“furious”)
• frennishin (“state of extreme rage”)
• frennisinly (“frenziedly”)

From Ottoman Turkish فرن, فره‌ن (fren), from French frein.

• IPA^(key): /fɾɛn/
• Hyphenation: fren

fren (definite accusative freni, plural frenler)

1. (automotive) brake

• fren pedalı
• el freni
• el frenini çekmek
• fren yapmak
• frenleyici
• frenleme
• frenlemek
• havalı fren

• Parlatır, İsmail et al. (1998) “fren”, in Türkçe Sözlük, 9th edition, volume I, Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 802b