Föhn
See also: fohn, foehn, föhn, and fœhn
German
Alternative forms
- Fön
Etymology
From Old High German phonno, from Vulgar Latin *faōnius, from Latin Favōnius (“Favonius”), a Roman wind god.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /føːn/
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Noun
Föhn m (strong, genitive Föhns, plural Föhne or Föhns)
- (meteorology) foehn (warm wind which appears on the leeward side of mountains, for example on the northern side of the alps in south Germany)
- hair dryer
- Synonym: Haartrockner(formal), Heißluftdusche, Luftdusche
Usage notes
- The normal plural is Föhne.
- The plural Föhns is quite often heard in the vernacular.
- Fön is a trademark that was not affected by the 1996 spelling reform, and remains in use as an alternative spelling for the hair-dryer sense only.
Declension
Declension of Föhn [masculine, strong]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | ein | der | Föhn | die | Föhne, Föhns |
| genitive | eines | des | Föhns | der | Föhne, Föhns |
| dative | einem | dem | Föhn | den | Föhnen, Föhns |
| accusative | einen | den | Föhn | die | Föhne, Föhns |
Descendants
- → Catalan: foehn
- → Chinese:
- Mandarin: 焚風／焚风 (fénfēng)
- → Czech: fén
- → Danish: føn
- → Dutch: föhn
- → Indonesian: fon
- → English: foehn
- → Finnish: föhn
- → French: foehn
- → Hebrew: פֶן (fen)
- → Hungarian: főn
- → Italian: föhn, fon, föhn
- → Macedonian: фен (fen)
- → Russian: фен (fen)
- → Armenian: ֆեն (fen)
- → Serbo-Croatian: fen
- → Slovak: fén, fön
- → Swedish: fön
- → Finnish: fööni
- → Turkish: fön
- → Ukrainian: фен (fen)
Further reading
- “Föhn” in Duden online
Föhn on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de- “Föhn” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache