paen

See also: pæn, paen-, and päñ

Biliau

Noun

paen

  1. woman

Further reading
  • Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)

Cypriot Arabic
Root
p-y-n
2 terms

Etymology

From Arabic بَيَّنَ (bayyana).

Verb

paen II (present pipaen) (intransitive)

  1. to look like, to seem to (someone) [+ l- (object)]

References
  • Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 171

Middle English

Noun

paen

  1. Alternative form of payen

Adjective

paen

  1. Alternative form of payen
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