name
Meaning 1
A female given name.
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Standard Lemma guide
fern
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /fɜːn/
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US: /fɝːn/
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rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n
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Canada, General-American: /fɝn/
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Australian: /fɜːn/
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Australian: [fɘːn]
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Early, Modern: /fɛːrn/
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Early, Modern: /fɛrn/
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CMU ARPABET: F ER1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A topographic surname.
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noun
Meaning 3
Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
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noun
Meaning 4
any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores
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Broader terms: pteridophyte, nonflowering plant
Narrower terms: pecopteris, filmy fern, film fern, bristle fern, flowering fern, osmund, crape fern, Prince-of-Wales fern, Prince-of-Wales feather, Prince-of-Wales plume, Leptopteris superba, Todea superba, crepe fern, king fern, Todea barbara, curly grass, curly grass fern, Schizaea pusilla, pine fern, Anemia adiantifolia, climbing fern, scented fern, Mohria caffrorum, aquatic fern, water fern, adder's tongue, adder's tongue fern, grape fern, Helminthostachys zeylanica, giant scrambling fern, Diplopterygium longissimum, umbrella fern, fan fern, Sticherus flabellatus, Gleichenia flabellata, polypody, bear's-paw fern, Aglaomorpha meyeniana, strap fern, basket fern, Drynaria rigidula, lecanopteris, snake polypody, Microgramma-piloselloides, climbing bird's nest fern, Microsorium punctatum, golden polypody, serpent fern, rabbit's-foot fern, Phlebodium aureum, Polypodium aureum, staghorn fern, felt fern, tongue fern, Pyrrosia lingua, Cyclophorus lingua, potato fern, Solanopteris bifrons, grass fern, ribbon fern, Vittaria lineata, spleenwort, bird's nest fern, Asplenium nidus, hart's-tongue, hart's-tongue fern, Asplenium scolopendrium, Phyllitis scolopendrium, scale fern, scaly fern, Asplenium ceterach, Ceterach officinarum, Schaffneria nigripes, Asplenium nigripes, Scolopendrium nigripes, scolopendrium, hard fern, doodia, rasp fern, chain fern, tree fern, davallia, hay-scented, hay-scented fern, boulder fern, Dennstaedtia punctilobula, bracken, pasture brake, brake, Pteridium aquilinum, Pteridium esculentum, false bracken, Culcita dubia, shield fern, buckler fern, wood fern, wood-fern, woodfern, lady fern, Athyrium filix-femina, silvery spleenwort, glade fern, narrow-leaved spleenwort, Athyrium pycnocarpon, Diplazium pycnocarpon, holly fern, Cyrtomium aculeatum, Polystichum aculeatum, bladder fern, Deparia acrostichoides, Athyrium thelypteroides, oak fern, Gymnocarpium dryopteris, Thelypteris dryopteris, limestone fern, northern oak fern, Gymnocarpium robertianum, ostrich fern, shuttlecock fern, fiddlehead, Matteuccia struthiopteris, Pteretis struthiopteris, Onoclea struthiopteris, Olfersia cervina, Polybotrya cervina, Polybotria cervina, sensitive fern, bead fern, Onoclea sensibilis, Christmas fern, canker brake, dagger fern, evergreen wood fern, Polystichum acrostichoides, leather fern, leatherleaf fern, ten-day fern, Rumohra adiantiformis, Polystichum adiantiformis, button fern, Tectaria cicutaria, Indian button fern, Tectaria macrodonta, woodsia, oleander fern, Oleandra neriiformis, Oleandra mollis, sword fern, golden fern, Acrostichum aureum, maidenhair, maidenhair fern, annual fern, Jersey fern, Anogramma leptophylla, lip fern, lipfern, lace fern, Cheilanthes gracillima, bamboo fern, Coniogramme japonica, rock brake, hand fern, Doryopteris pedata, cliff brake, cliff-brake, Pellaea rotundifolia, silver fern, Pityrogramma argentea, Pityrogramma calomelanos, Pityrogramma calomelanos aureoflava, gold fern, Pityrogramma chrysophylla, Pteris cretica, spider brake, spider fern, Pteris multifida, Pteris serrulata, Marattia salicina, marsh fern, Thelypteris palustris, Dryopteris thelypteris, christella, mountain fern, Oreopteris limbosperma, Dryopteris oreopteris, New York fern, Parathelypteris novae-boracensis, Dryopteris noveboracensis, Massachusetts fern, Parathelypteris simulata, Thelypteris simulata, beech fern
History
Etymology
From fern; in the case of the surname, it was given to someone who lived in a place where there was an abundance of these plants.
From Middle English fern, from Old English fearn, from Proto-West Germanic *farn, from Proto-Germanic *farnaz (“fern”), from Proto-Indo-European *pornóm (“feather, wing; fern, leaf”), from *p(t)erH- (“fern”). Cognates Cognate with Scots fairn (“fern”), North Frisian farne (“fern”), West Frisian fear (“fern”), Dutch varen (“fern”), German Farn, Farm (“fern”), Luxembourgish Far (“fern”); also Breton raden (“fern”), Cornish reden (“ferns; brackens”), Welsh rhedyn (“ferns; brackens”), Latvian paparde (“fern; bracken”), spārns (“wing”), Lithuanian spar̃nas (“wing”), Bulgarian and Macedonian папрат (paprat, “fern”), Czech kapraď (“fern”), Polish paproć (“fern”), Russian па́пороть (páporotʹ), па́поротник (páporotnik, “fern”), Serbo-Croatian па̏пра̄т, pȁprāt (“fern”), Slovak papraď (“fern”), Slovene praprot (“fern”), Ukrainian па́пороть (páporotʹ, “fern”), Central Kurdish پەڕ (perr, “feather”), Persian پر (par, “feather; wing; leaf”), Ashkun pār (“leaf”), Kamkata-viri por, přor (“leaf”), Prasuni parëg (“leaf”), Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá, “wing; leaf”).
Across languages
Translations
128 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Abkhaz: аҭы́рас (atə́ras) — plant
- Albanian: fier — plant
- Arabic: سَرْخَس (sarḵas) — plant
- Armenian: պտեր (pter) — plant
- Aromanian: fearicã — plant
- Assamese: ঢেকীয়া (dhekia) — plant
- Azerbaijani: qıjı — plant
- Azerbaijani: ayıdöşəyi — plant
- Basque: ira — plant
- Belarusian: па́параць (páparacʹ) — plant
- Belarusian: па́паратнік (páparatnik) — plant
- Bengali: ফার্ন (pharno) — plant
- Breton: raden — plant
- Bulgarian: папрат (paprat) — plant
- Burmese: ဒရင်ကောက်ပင် du (da.rangkaukpang) — plant
- Catalan: falguera — plant
- Catalan: falaguera — plant
- Cebuano: pakó — plant
- Chechen: чураш (čuraš) — plant
- Chinese Mandarin: 蕨類 /蕨类 (juélèi) — plant
- Ngazidja Comorian: kudju — plant
- Cornish: reden — plant
- Czech: kapradina — plant
- Czech: kapraď — plant
- Danish: bregne — plant
- Dutch: varen — plant
- Erzya: карёлго (kaŕolgo) — plant
- Esperanto: filiko — plant
- Estonian: sõnajalg — plant
- Faroese: trøllakampur — plant
- Faroese: trøllakambur — plant
- Finnish: saniainen — plant
- French: fougère — plant
- Friulian: felet — plant
- Galician: fieito — plant
- Galician: fento — plant
- Galician: felgo — plant
- Galician: folgueira — plant
- Galician: dentabrún — plant
- Galician: botrico — plant
- Gallo: faeugieur' — plant
- Georgian: გვიმრა (gvimra) — plant
- German: Farn — plant
- German: Farnkraut — plant
- Greek: φτέρη (ftéri) — plant
- Ancient Greek: πτέρις (ptéris) — plant
- Hebrew: שָׂרָךְ (sharakh) — plant
- Hindi: फर्न (pharn) — plant
- Hungarian: páfrány — plant
- Icelandic: burkni — plant
- Indonesian: paku — plant
- Ingrian: sananjalka — plant
- Ingrian: sannikkain — plant
- Interlingua: filice — plant
- Irish: raithneach — plant
- Italian: felce — plant
- Ivatan: tamidok — plant
- Japanese: 歯朶 (shida) — plant
- Japanese: 羊歯 (shida) — plant
- Kapampangan: paku — plant
- Kazakh: қырыққұлақ (qyryqqūlaq) — plant
- Khmer: បណ្ណង្គជាតិ (pannangkĕəʼciət) — plant
- Korean: 양치류 (yangchiryu) — plant
- Northern Kurdish: serxes — plant
- Northern Kurdish: teraş — plant
- Latgalian: papardis — plant
- Latin: filix — plant
- Latvian: paparde — plant
- Lithuanian: papartis — plant
- Macedonian: папрат (paprat) — plant
- Malay: paku — plant
- Malayalam: പന്നൽ (pannal) — plant
- Mansaka: pako — plant
- Manx: rhennagh — plant
- Māori: huruwhenua — plant
- Mingrelian: გვიმორა (gvimora) — plant
- Mingrelian: გვიმარა (gvimara) — plant
- Mingrelian: გუიმარა (guimara) — plant
- Mingrelian: გუმარა (gumara) — plant
- Mongolian: ойм (ojm) — plant
- Mongolian: ᠣᠶᠢᠮᠤ (oyimu) — plant
- Neapolitan: felece — plant
- Norwegian Bokmål: bregne — plant
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bregne — plant
- Occitan: falguièra — plant
- Occitan: falguièira — plant
- Old English: fearn — plant
- Persian: سرخس (saraxs) — plant
- Polish: paproć — plant
- Portuguese: samambaia — plant
- Portuguese: feto — plant
- Romanian: ferigă — plant
- Russian: па́поротник (páporotnik) — plant
- Sardinian: fíbixi — plant
- Sardinian: fíliche — plant
- Sardinian: fírigu — plant
- Scots: fairn — plant
- Scottish Gaelic: raineach — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: па̏пра̄т — plant
- Serbo-Croatian: pȁprāt — plant
- Sicilian: fìlici — plant
- Slovak: papraď — plant
- Slovene: práprot — plant
- Lower Sorbian: paproś — plant
- Spanish: helecho — plant
- Spanish: shapumba — plant
- Spanish: yogo — plant
- Spanish: calimete — plant
- Svan: იფხ (ipx) — plant
- Svan: გვიმბრა (gvimbra) — plant
- Svan: გუ̂იმბრა (gûimbra) — plant
- Svan: გუ̂იმრა (gûimra) — plant
- Svan: გუ̂რიმბ (gûrimb) — plant
- Svan: გუ̂იმორ (gûimor) — plant
- Swahili: mkangaga — plant
- Swedish: ormbunke — plant
- Swedish: bräken — plant
- Tagalog: pako — plant
- Thai: เฟิร์น (fəən) — plant
- Turkish: eğrelti otu — plant
- Ukrainian: па́пороть (páporotʹ) — plant
- Unami: ahshikëmënshi — plant
- Uzbek: qirqquloq — plant
- Venetan: féłese — plant
- Vietnamese: dương xỉ — plant
- Volapük: filig — plant
- Welsh: rhedynen — plant
- Woiwurrung: buyet — plant