Seine

Seine

See also: seine and seiné

English

Etymology

French Seine

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/

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  • Rhymes: -ɛn
  • Homophone: sen
• IPA^(key): /seɪn/

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  • Rhymes: -eɪn
  • Homophones: sain, sane

Proper noun

the Seine

1. A river in northern France that flows through Paris for about 772 km (480 mi) to the English Channel near Le Havre.
2. A former department of France, the capital city of which was Paris.

Derived terms

• Seine-et-Marne
• Seine-Maritime
• Seine-Saint-Denis

Translations

river of northern France

Afrikaans: Seine Albanian: Sena Amharic: ሰን (sän) Arabic: السِّين‎ m (as-sīn) Hijazi Arabic: السِّن‎ m (as-sin) Armenian: Սեն (Sen) Asturian: Sena f Azerbaijani: Sena Basque: Sena Belarusian: Се́на f (Sjéna) Bengali: সেন (sen) Breton: Saena f Bulgarian: Се́на f (Séna) Burmese: စိန်းမြစ် (cin:mrac) Catalan: Sena (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 塞納河／塞纳河 (zh) (Sènà hé) Czech: Seina (cs) f Danish: Seinen Dutch: Seine (nl) f Esperanto: Sejno Estonian: Seine (et) Finnish: Seine (fi) French: Seine (fr) f Galician: Sena (gl) f Georgian: სენა (sena) German: Seine (de) f Greek: Σηκουάνας (el) m (Sikouánas) Hebrew: סן‎ m (Sén) Hindi: सीन (hi) f (sīn) Hungarian: Szajna (hu) Icelandic: Signa (is) f Indonesian: Seine Irish: An tSéin f Italian: Senna f Japanese: セーヌ川 (Sēnu-gawa) Kazakh: Сена (Sena) Korean: 센 강 (ko) (Sen gang) Kyrgyz: Сена (Sena) Latin: Sequana (la) f Latvian: Sēna f Lithuanian: Sena f Luxembourgish: Seine f Macedonian: Сена f (Sena) Malay: Seine Malayalam: സീൻ (sīṉ) Marathi: सेन f (sen) Norwegian: Bokmål: Seine m Nynorsk: Seinen m Occitan: Sèina f Old English: Sigen f Persian: سن‎ (fa) (sên) Polish: Sekwana (pl) f Portuguese: Sena (pt) m Punjabi: ਸੈਨ (pa) f (sain) Romanian: Sena f Russian: Се́на (ru) f (Séna) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: Сена f Roman: Sena f Sicilian: Senna f Slovak: Seina f Slovene: Sena f Spanish: Sena m Swedish: Seinen c, Seine c Tagalog: Sena Tamil: செய்ன் (ceyṉ) Telugu: సీన్ (sīn) Thai: แม่น้ำแซน (mɛ̂ɛ-náam-sɛɛn), แซน (sɛɛn) Tibetan: སེ་ན་ (se na) Turkish: Sen Ukrainian: Се́на f (Séna) Uzbek: Sena Welsh: Seine f West Frisian: Seine

Anagrams

• Eisen, Niese, insee, see in, seein, seein', senie

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French

Etymology

From Latin Sequana, from a Celtic deity who descended from the Proto-Indo-European pantheon.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɛn/

• Audio (Paris)

  (file)

• Audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛn

Proper noun

la Seine f

1. Seine (a river in northern France)

Usage notes

In French, the river Seine is known as a fleuve, not a rivière.

Derived terms

• Hauts-de-Seine
• Seine-et-Marne
• Seine-Maritime
• Seine-Saint-Denis
• séquanais

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German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈzɛːn/, /ˈzɛːnə/

Proper noun

die Seine f (proper noun, usually definite, definite genitive derSeine)

1. Seine (a river in France)