Hen

Adverb

 * 1)  Hence.

Verb

 * 1)  To throw.



Noun

 * 1) A female bird.
 * 2) (specifically) A female chicken, especially one kept for its eggs.
 * 3)  A woman.
 * 4)  The woman whose impending marriage is being celebrated at a hen night.

Derived terms

 * henbane
 * hen harrier
 * hen party
 * henpecked
 * mother hen

Adjectives for Hen
scrawny; rained-on; cackling; maternal; speckled; teeming (pi); unsung; matronly-minded.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology 1
From henne:, heonne:, hinne:, from earlier henene:, heonenen:, henen:, from  heonan:, hionan:, heonane:, heonone:, from, from. Cognate with heen:,  hin:,  hen:. See also.

Etymology 2
From hen:, or a variant of hench:.

Etymology 3
From, from henn:, hænn:, from , from. Cognate with hen:,  Henne:,  hæna:. Related also to hana:.

Translations

 * Armenian:
 * Avestan:
 * Catalan: femella
 * Corsican:, ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Eshtehardi:
 * Esperanto: birdino


 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Middle Persian:
 * Old Persian:
 * Parthian:
 * Persian:
 * Spanish: hembra
 * Swahili: ,
 * Telugu: ఆడపక్షి


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: հավ
 * Aromanian:
 * Azeri: toyuq
 * Bashkir:
 * Bosnian: ,
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chechen:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: ,
 * Mandarin: 母雞, 母鸡
 * Croatian: ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, , leghen, legkip
 * Esperanto: kokino
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: koklonɔ
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: Henne, Legehenne
 * Greek: κότα (kóta), όρνιθα (órnitha)
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ayam
 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kalenjin:
 * Kamba:
 * Karachay-Balkar:
 * Kazakh: тауық
 * Khakas:
 * Kikuyu:


 * Korean: 암탉
 * Kyrgyz: тоок
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Low Saxon: Hohn
 * Luhya:
 * Luo:
 * Maltese: tiġieġ
 * Meru:
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Persian:, مرغ
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: cearc
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: ,
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: kurča
 * Slovene:, , koklja (broody hen)
 * Southern Altai:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: khozhi
 * Taos: lìlúna
 * Tatar: tawıq
 * Telugu:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen:
 * Uzbek:
 * Volapük: jigok,  nögamajigok
 * Wolof: ganaar gu jigéen
 * Yakut:


 * Dutch: moederkloek
 * French:
 * Greek: κότα


 * Russian:
 * Swahili:

Anagrams

 * Neh.
 * NHE

Etymology
Cognate to Welsh hen: and Irish sean:. From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) old

Adverb

 * 1) here

Etymology 1
From hin:, from.

Pronoun

 * 1) them

Related terms

 * hun

Noun

 * 1) Hen, female chicken; female of a related species.
 * 2) A female of the species of birds brooding on the ground.
 * 3)  'bird', colloquial term for a human female

Synonyms

 * (female chicken) kip, kieken
 * (brooding bird) kloek
 * (female human; informal) kippetje, duifje

Related terms

 * haan (rooster)
 * hoen, hoender (fowl)

Noun

 * 1) 編: compilation, knit, plait, braid, twist, editing, completed poem, part of a book
 * 2) 辺: side, edge
 * 3) 偏: a type of Chinese radical, right half; antonym: 旁 (つくり)

Pinyin syllable
hen



Noun

 * 1) Term of address for a woman.
 * Alright Mary hen?

Etymology
Cognate to Breton hen: and Irish sean:. From, from.

Adjective

 * 1) old, ancient