foehn

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• UK: /fɜːn/
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• UK: /feɪn/
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• US: /fɝn/
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• US: /feɪn/
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• rhymes with -ɜːn
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• rhymes with -eɪn
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• rhymes with -ɜː(ɹ)n
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• homophone: feign
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• homophone: fern
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• homophone: fane (archaic)
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• homophone: fain
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Borrowed from German Föhn, from Old High German phonno, from Vulgar Latin faōnius, an alteration of Latin favōnius (“west wind”), from Favōnius (“Roman wind god”).

33 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Chinese: 火燒風 /火烧风 (hóe-sio-hong/hé-sio-hong) — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Chinese Mandarin: 焚風 /焚风 (fénfēng) — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Czech: fén — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Danish: føn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Dutch: föhn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Dutch: föhnwind — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Finnish: föhn-tuuli — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Finnish: föhn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• French: foehn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• German: Föhn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• German: Föön — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Greenlandic: nunasarneq — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Hungarian: főn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Italian: föhn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Italian: favonio — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Norwegian Bokmål: føn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Norwegian Bokmål: fønvind — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Norwegian Nynorsk: føn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fønvind — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Polish: fen — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Russian: фён (fjon) — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Slovak: föhn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Vietnamese: gió phơn — warm dry wind blowing down the northern sides of the Alps
• Chinese Mandarin: 焚風 /焚风 (fénfēng) — any similar wind
• Czech: fén — any similar wind
• Danish: føn — any similar wind
• Finnish: föhn-tuuli — any similar wind
• Greek: φόεν (fóen) — any similar wind
• Hungarian: főn — any similar wind
• Italian: föhn — any similar wind
• Italian: favonio — any similar wind
• Polish: fen — any similar wind
• Russian: фён (fjon) — any similar wind