jean
English
Etymology
From the Middle English Gene (“Genoa”), from the Old French Jannes. Bleu de Gênes (“Genovese blue”) was a blue dye made in Genoa used to tint the denim cloth produced in Nîmes (de Nîmes). Doublet of Genoa and Geneva and distantly related to knee.
Pronunciation
- enPR: jēn, IPA(key): /d͡ʒiːn/
- (obsolete) enPR: jān, IPA(key): /d͡ʒeɪn/[1]
Audio (UK): (file) - Rhymes: -iːn
- Homophones: gene, Gene
Noun
jean (countable and uncountable, plural jeans)
- (chiefly attributive) Denim.
- She wore a tattered jean jacket.
- 1843, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit:
- Lastly, he took out a common frock of coarse dark jean, which he drew over his own under-clothing; and a felt hat—he had purposely left his own upstairs.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Meredith, L. P. (1872) “Jean”, in Every-Day Errors of Speech[1], Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., page 26.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dʒin/
Audio: (file) Audio (Switzerland): (file) - Homophones: djinn, gin
Noun
jean m (plural jeans)
- a pair of jeans
Further reading
- “jean”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Manx
Etymology
From Old Irish ·dénai, prototonic form of do·gní.
The past form ren is from Old Irish do·rigni, deuterotonic form of the perfect tense of do·gní.
Pronunciation
Verb
jean (past ren, future independent nee, verbal noun jannoo, past participle jeant)
- (auxiliary) A syntactic marker that carries the tense of the verb, replacing its synthetic form; the true verb follows as a verbal noun.
- do, make
Conjugation
Spanish
Noun
jean m (plural jeans)
Further reading
- “jean”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 23rd edition, Royal Spanish Academy, 2014 October 16
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