fountain

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• UK: /ˈfaʊn.tɪn/
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• US: [ˈfaʊn.tn̩]
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• US: [ˈfaʊn.ʔn̩]
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Topographic surname for someone who lived near a fountain, spring or well.

From Middle English [Term?]; from Old French fontaine (whence modern fontaine); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“source, spring”).

174 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Abkhaz: аӡыршә (adzərŝw) — artificial water feature
• Afrikaans: fontein — artificial water feature
• Albanian: shatërvan — artificial water feature
• Arabic: نَافُورَة (nāfūra) — artificial water feature
• Arabic: فَوَّارَة (fawwāra) — artificial water feature
• Arabic: نافورة (nāfūra) — artificial water feature
• Arabic: نافورة (nāfūra) — artificial water feature
• Arabic: نافورة (nāfūra) — artificial water feature
• Armenian: շատրվան (šatrvan) — artificial water feature
• Azerbaijani: fəvvarə — artificial water feature
• Azerbaijani: fontan — artificial water feature
• Belarusian: фанта́н (fantán) — artificial water feature
• Belarusian: вадагра́й (vadahráj) — artificial water feature
• Breton: feunteun — artificial water feature
• Bulgarian: фонта́н (fontán) — artificial water feature
• Bulgarian: водоско́к (vodoskók) — artificial water feature
• Bulgarian: шадрава́н (šadraván) — artificial water feature
• Burmese: ရေပန်း (repan:) — artificial water feature
• Catalan: font — artificial water feature
• Chechen: хизаза (xizaza) — artificial water feature
• Chinese Mandarin: 噴泉 /喷泉 (pēnquán) — artificial water feature
• Chinese Mandarin: 噴水池 /喷水池 (pēnshuǐchí) — artificial water feature
• Chuvash: пӗрхӗнчӗк (pĕrh̬ĕnč̬ĕk) — artificial water feature
• Czech: fontána — artificial water feature
• Czech: kašna — artificial water feature
• Danish: springvand — artificial water feature
• Danish: fontæne — artificial water feature
• Dutch: fontein — artificial water feature
• Esperanto: fontano — artificial water feature
• Estonian: allikas — artificial water feature
• Estonian: purskkaev — artificial water feature
• Finnish: suihkulähde — artificial water feature
• Finnish: suihkukaivo — artificial water feature
• French: fontaine — artificial water feature
• Friulian: fontane — artificial water feature
• Galician: fonte — artificial water feature
• Georgian: შადრევანი (šadrevani) — artificial water feature
• German: Springbrunnen — artificial water feature
• German: Brunnen — artificial water feature
• German: Fontäne — artificial water feature
• Greek: σιντριβάνι (sintriváni) — artificial water feature
• Gujarati: ફુવારો (phuvāro) — artificial water feature
• Hebrew: מִזרָקָה (mizraká) — artificial water feature
• Hindi: सोता (sotā) — artificial water feature
• Hindi: फ़व्वारा (favvārā) — artificial water feature
• Hungarian: szökőkút — artificial water feature
• Icelandic: gosbrunnur — artificial water feature
• Indonesian: air mancur — artificial water feature
• Irish: scardán (uisce) — artificial water feature
• Italian: fontana — artificial water feature
• Japanese: 噴水 (funsui) — artificial water feature
• Kazakh: бұрқақ (būrqaq) — artificial water feature
• Kazakh: су атқыш (su atqyş) — artificial water feature
• Kazakh: су бұрқақ (su būrqaq) — artificial water feature
• Khmer: ប្រភពទឹក (prɑɑphup tɨk) — artificial water feature
• Korean: 분수 (bunsu) — artificial water feature
• Northern Kurdish: şadrewan — artificial water feature
• Kyrgyz: фонтан (fontan) — artificial water feature
• Kyrgyz: оргума (orguma) — artificial water feature
• Ladin: funtana — artificial water feature
• Lakota: wiwila — artificial water feature
• Lao: ນ້ໍາພຸ (nam phu) — artificial water feature
• Latvian: strūklaka — artificial water feature
• Latvian: fontāns — artificial water feature
• Lithuanian: fontanas — artificial water feature
• Macedonian: фонта́на (fontána) — artificial water feature
• Malay: air pancut — artificial water feature
• Maltese: funtana — artificial water feature
• Māori: puna torotī — artificial water feature
• Marathi: कारंजा (kārañjā) — artificial water feature
• Mauritian Creole: lafontenn — artificial water feature
• Mongolian: усан оргилуур (usan orgiluur) — artificial water feature
• Mongolian: ᠤᠰᠤᠨ ᠣᠷᠭᠢᠯᠠᠭᠤᠷ (usun orɣilaɣur) — artificial water feature
• Nahuatl: āmēyalli — artificial water feature
• Navajo: tó háálį́įgo bá hazʼą́ — artificial water feature
• Norwegian Bokmål: fontene — artificial water feature
• Norwegian Bokmål: springvann — artificial water feature
• Norwegian Nynorsk: fontene — artificial water feature
• Pashto: شرشره (šaršara) — artificial water feature
• Pashto: فواره (fawāra) — artificial water feature
• Iranian Persian: فَوَّارِه (favvâre) — artificial water feature
• Iranian Persian: آبنَما (âb-namâ) — artificial water feature
• Iranian Persian: شادُرْوان (šâdorvân) — artificial water feature
• Polish: fontanna — artificial water feature
• Polish: wodotrysk — artificial water feature
• Portuguese: fonte — artificial water feature
• Portuguese: chafariz — artificial water feature
• Romanian: fântână — artificial water feature
• Russian: фонта́н (fontán) — artificial water feature
• Sardinian: fantana — artificial water feature
• Sardinian: funtana — artificial water feature
• Sardinian: puntana — artificial water feature
• Serbo-Croatian: фо̀нта̄на — artificial water feature
• Serbo-Croatian: fòntāna — artificial water feature
• Sicilian: funtana — artificial water feature
• Slovak: fontána — artificial water feature
• Slovene: vodna fontana — artificial water feature
• Slovene: fontana — artificial water feature
• Spanish: fuente — artificial water feature
• Spanish: chafariz — artificial water feature
• Spanish: fontana — artificial water feature
• Swedish: fontän — artificial water feature
• Swedish: springbrunn — artificial water feature
• Swedish: vattenkonst — artificial water feature
• Tagalog: bátis — artificial water feature
• Tajik: фаввора (favvora) — artificial water feature
• Tajik: шодурвон (šodurvon) — artificial water feature
• Tamil: ஊற்று (ūṟṟu) — artificial water feature
• Tamil: நீரூற்று (nīrūṟṟu) — artificial water feature
• Tarifit: tara — artificial water feature
• Tatar: фонтан (fontan) — artificial water feature
• Thai: น้ําพุ (náam-pú) — artificial water feature
• Tibetan: འཐོར་ཆུ ('thor chu) — artificial water feature
• Tibetan: བཅོས་མའི་ལུ་མ (bcos ma'i lu ma) — artificial water feature
• Turkish: çeşme — artificial water feature
• Turkish: şadırvan — artificial water feature
• Ottoman Turkish: چشمه (çeşme) — artificial water feature
• Turkmen: fontan — artificial water feature
• Turkmen: çüwdürim — artificial water feature
• Tuvan: фонтан (fontan) — artificial water feature
• Ukrainian: фонта́н (fontán) — artificial water feature
• Ukrainian: водогра́й (vodohráj) — artificial water feature
• Urdu: فَوَّارَہ (favvāra) — artificial water feature
• Urdu: سوتا (sotā) — artificial water feature
• Urdu: مَنْبَع (manba') — artificial water feature
• Uyghur: فونتان (fontan) — artificial water feature
• Uzbek: fontan — artificial water feature
• Uzbek: favvora — artificial water feature
• Uzbek: tahoratgoh — artificial water feature
• Vietnamese: suối nước — artificial water feature
• Vietnamese: đài phun nước — artificial water feature
• Volapük: foned — artificial water feature
• West Frisian: fontein — artificial water feature
• Yakut: фонтан (fontan) — artificial water feature
• Yiddish: פֿאָנטאַן (fontan) — artificial water feature
• Yucatec Maya: sayab ha' — artificial water feature
• Zazaki: ini — artificial water feature
• Afrikaans: fontein — structure from which a fountain issues
• Armenian: շատրվան (šatrvan) — structure from which a fountain issues
• Bulgarian: фонта́н (fontán) — structure from which a fountain issues
• Czech: fontána — structure from which a fountain issues
• Dutch: fontein — structure from which a fountain issues
• Finnish: suihkulähde — structure from which a fountain issues
• Finnish: suihkukaivo — structure from which a fountain issues
• French: fontaine — structure from which a fountain issues
• Hebrew: מזרקה (mizraká) — structure from which a fountain issues
• Latvian: strūklaka — structure from which a fountain issues
• Māori: puna torotī — structure from which a fountain issues
• Portuguese: fonte — structure from which a fountain issues
• Portuguese: chafariz — structure from which a fountain issues
• Russian: фонта́н (fontán) — structure from which a fountain issues
• Serbo-Croatian: фо̀нта̄на — structure from which a fountain issues
• Serbo-Croatian: fòntāna — structure from which a fountain issues
• Tamil: நீரூற்று (nīrūṟṟu) — structure from which a fountain issues
• Ukrainian: фонта́н (fontán) — structure from which a fountain issues
• Albanian: burim — source or origin of a flow
• Armenian: աղբյուր (aġbyur) — source or origin of a flow
• Armenian: ակ (ak) — source or origin of a flow
• Armenian: ակունք (akunkʻ) — source or origin of a flow
• Bulgarian: изто́чник (iztóčnik) — source or origin of a flow
• Dutch: bron — source or origin of a flow
• Finnish: lähde — source or origin of a flow
• Greek: πηγή (pigí) — source or origin of a flow
• Hebrew: מקור (makór) — source or origin of a flow
• Hungarian: forrás — source or origin of a flow
• Hungarian: kútfő — source or origin of a flow
• Māori: puna — source or origin of a flow
• Portuguese: fonte — source or origin of a flow
• Russian: исто́чник (istóčnik) — source or origin of a flow
• Russian: кла́дезь (kládezʹ) — source or origin of a flow
• Spanish: fuente — source or origin of a flow
• Ukrainian: джерело́ (džereló) — source or origin of a flow
• Finnish: pulputa — to flow or gush as if from a fountain
• Ukrainian: фонтанува́ти (fontanuváty) — to flow or gush as if from a fountain