pens
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛnz/
- (pin–pen merger) IPA(key): /pɪnz/
- Homophone: pins
- Rhymes: -ɛnz, -ɪnz
Afrikaans
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Catalan
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Danish
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch pense, from Old French panse (“belly; tripe”), from Latin pantex (“belly; guts”). Cognate with Limburgish pans, West Flemish pense, English paunch.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛns/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: pens
- Rhymes: -ɛns
Noun
pens f (plural pensen, diminutive pensje n)
- paunch, rumen
- Synonym: rumen
- In de pens wordt voedsel voorverteerd. ― Food is pre-digested in the rumen.
- 1871, F. C. Hekmeijer, Geïllustreerd Veeartsenijkundig Handboek voor elken Landman, voor ieder, die Dieren of Vee houdt, publ. B. Dekema, page 546.
- De pens heeft 2 openingen, waarvan de bovenste, de maagmond, in den slokdarm voert, de onderste, grootere, is de netmaag-opening en voert in de tweede maag...
- The rumen has two apertures, of which the upper or cardia leads to the esophagus and the lower and bigger aperture or opening of the reticulum leads to the second stomach...
- tripe
- Vandaag de dag wordt pens als slachtafval gezien. ― Nowadays, tripe is regarded as offal.
- (cooking) tripe filled with minced meat
- Synonym: rolpens
- Vroeger werd pens veelal thuis gemaakt. ― In the past, filled tripe was often made at home.
- potbelly
- (dialectal) stomach
- Synonym: maag
- De hond heeft een opgezwollen pens. ― The dog has a distended stomach.
- 1887, W. F. Margadant, Met de adelborsten aan boord van de "Aldebaran", W. Cremer, page 125:
- (Hij) zwoer bij kris en kras dat hij den gevangen monsters (t.w. haaien) dikwijls levende jongen uit hun ”pens” had gehaald...
- (He) swore up and down that he had often extricated live young from the ”stomachs” of the captured monsters (i.e. sharks)...
Descendants
- Afrikaans: pens
Middle English
Noun
pens
- plural of peny (“penny”)
- Synonym: penies
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Friar's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 1603:
- [...] ‘Yif me twelf pens, I may no lenger tarie.’
- [...] ‘Give me twelve pence, I can no longer tarry.’
Norwegian Nynorsk
Derived terms
- pensa (verb)
References
- “pens” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɛns/
Audio (file) - Rhymes: -ɛns
- Syllabification: pens
Declension
Volapük
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