# vein
## English
### Alternative forms

* wayn (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Middle English veyne, borrowed from Anglo-Norman veine, from Latin vēna (“a blood-vessel; vein; artery”) of uncertain origin. See vēna for more. Doublet of vena. Displaced native edre, from ǣdre (whence edder).

### Pronunciation

* enPR: vān, IPA: /veɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Homophones: vain, vane
* Rhymes: -eɪn

### Noun

vein (plural veins)
* (anatomy) A blood vessel that transports blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
    Hyponyms: deep vein, perforator vein, superficial vein
    The nurse hovered her vein finder to locate the veins in the patient's body.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene vii:An vncouth paine torments my grieued ſoule, And death arreſts the organe of my voyce. Who entring at the breach thy ſword hath made, Sackes euery vaine and artier of my heart, […]
* (in the plural) The entrails of a shrimp.
* (botany) In leaves, a thickened portion of the leaf containing the vascular bundle.
* (zoology) The nervure of an insect’s wing.
* A stripe or streak of a different colour or composition in materials such as wood, cheese, marble or other rocks.
** (geology) A sheetlike body of crystallized minerals within a rock.
* (figurative) A topic of discussion; a train of association, thoughts, emotions, etc.
    in the same vein
** 1712, Jonathan Swift, A Proposal For Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue:He […] is able to open new scenes, and discover a vein of true and noble thinking.
** 2006, Matt Bellamy, “Knights of Cydonia”, in Black Holes and Revelations, performed by Muse:Come ride with me Through the veins of history, I'll show you how God Falls asleep on the job
* (figurative) A style, tendency, or quality.
    The play is in a satirical vein.
** 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Truth”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins
** 1645, Edmund Waller, The Battle Of The Summer Islands:Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.
* A fissure, cleft, or cavity, as in the earth or other substance.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book X”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:down to the veins of earth
** 1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “(please specify |book=1 to 3)”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC:I took another Prism therefore which was free from Veins

#### Synonyms

* (anatomy): vena

#### Hyponyms

* nervure

#### Derived terms

* anal vein
* antenodal vein
* axillary vein
* azygos vein
* azygous vein
* ball vein
* basilic vein
* blue vein
* blue-veined cheese
* brachiocephalic vein
* cardinal vein
* collateral vein
* common iliac vein
* deep vein thrombosis
* deep-vein thrombosis
* drain the main vein
* emissary vein
* femoral vein
* fissure vein
* gate vein
* Giacomini vein
* great cardiac vein
* great cerebral vein
* greater saphenous vein
* great saphenous vein
* hepatic portal vein
* in a similar vein
* innominate vein
* internal jugular vein
* in the same vein
* in the vein of
* jugular vein
* lesser saphenous vein
* maxillary vein
* portal vein
* pulmonary vein
* radial vein
* renal vein
* saddle vein
* saphenous vein
* satellite vein
* small saphenous vein
* spider vein
* splenic vein
* subclavian vein
* Sylvian vein
* tail vein
* testicular vein
* varicose vein
* veined
* veinless
* veinlet
* veinlike
* vein quartz
* veinstone
* vein valve
* veiny
* waxen vein

#### Related terms

* venation
* venous

#### Translations

Adyghe: лъынтфэ (lˢəntfɛ)
Afrikaans: aar (af)
Aklanon: ugat
Albanian: damar (sq) m, venë (sq) f
Apache:
Western Apache: bitsʼǫǫs
Arabic: وَرِيد m (warīd), عِرْق (ar) m (ʕirq)
Egyptian Arabic: وريد m (warīd), عرق m (ʕerʔ)
Hijazi Arabic: عِرْق m (ʕirg), وريد m (warīd)
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: երակ (hy) (erak)
Aromanian: vinã f
Assamese: সিৰ (xir)
Asturian: vena (ast) f
Azerbaijani: vena (az), damar (az)
Basque: zain (eu)
Belarusian: ве́на f (vjéna), жы́ла f (žýla)
Bengali: শিরা (bn) (śira)
Bhojpuri: नस (nas)
Breton: gwazhienn (br) f
Bulgarian: вена (bg) f (vena)
Burmese: သွေးကြော (my) (swe:krau:)
Buryat: һудаһан (hudahan)
Catalan: vena (ca) f
Chechen: орам (oram), пха (pxa)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 靜脈 / 静脉 (zh) (jìngmài)
Coptic: ϧⲣⲱϯ (xrōti)
Cornish: gwythien
Corsican: vena (co) f
Czech: žíla (cs) f
Dalmatian: vaina f
Danish: vene (da) c
Dutch: ader (nl) m
Egyptian: (mt f)
Emilian: please add this translation if you can
Erzya: верь сан (veŕ san)
Esperanto: vejno
Estonian: veen
Faroese: æðr f
Finnish: laskimo (fi)
French: veine (fr) f
Friulian: vene f
Galician: vea (gl) f
Georgian: კართი (ḳarti), ვენა (ka) (vena), სისხლძარღვი (sisxlʒarɣvi)
German: Vene (de) f, Ader (de) f, Geäder n (collective)
Greek: φλέβα (el) f (fléva)
Ancient: φλέψ f (phléps)
Haitian Creole: venn
Hebrew: וְרִיד (he) m (v'rid)
Hindi: शिरा (hi) m (śirā)
Hungarian: véna (hu)
Icelandic: æð (is) f
Ido: veino (io)
Indonesian: pembuluh darah (id), vena (id), pembuluh balik (id), urat (id)
Ingush: пха (pxa)
Iranun: ugat
Irish: féith f, cuisle f
Isnag: uxat
Italian: vena (it) f
Japanese: 静脈 (ja) (じょうみゃく, jōmyaku)
Kabardian: лъынтхуэ (kbd) (lˢəntxʷɛ)
Kazakh: вена (vena), көк тамыр (kök tamyr)
Khmer: សរសៃឈាមខ្មៅ (sɑɑ say cʰiem kmav), ធមនី (km) (thĕəʼmĕəʼnii)
Kikuyu: mũkiha class 3
Korean: 정맥(靜脈) (ko) (jeongmaek)
Kurdish:
Northern Kurdish: xwînhêner (ku) f, demar (ku) f
Kyrgyz: вена (vena), көк кан тамыры (kök kan tamırı)
Lao: ສາຍເລືອດດຳ (sāi lư̄at dam), ເສັ້ນເລືອດດຳ (sen lư̄at dam)
Latin: vēna f
Latvian: vēna (lv) f
Lithuanian: vena f
Lombard: vena (lmo) f
Macedonian: вена (mk) f (vena), жила f (žila)
Madurese: ꦲꦺꦴꦫꦃ (oraq)
Malay: urat (ms), vena (ms)
Maltese: vina f
Mansaka: ogat
Maori: ia-auraki
Marathi: शीर f (śīr), नस f (nas)
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: хураагуур судас (xuraaguur sudas), вен (mn) (ven), венийн судас (veniin sudas), хураах судал (xuraax sudal) (China)
Mongolian: ᠬᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠭᠤᠷ ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠰᠤ (quriyaɣur sudasu), ᠸᠧᠨ (wēn), ᠸᠧᠨ ᠦ ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠰᠤ (wēn-ü sudasu), ᠬᠤᠷᠢᠶᠠᠬᠤ ᠰᠤᠳᠠᠯ (quriyaqu sudal)
Navajo: atsʼoos dootłʼizhígíí
Neapolitan: please add this translation if you can
Nepali: नसा (nasā)
Norman: veine f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: vene (no) m, åre (no) m or f, blodåre (no) m or f
Nynorsk: vene f or m, åre f, år f, blodåre f, blodår f
Occitan: sefena f
Old Church Slavonic: жила f (žila)
Old English: ǣdre f
Ottoman Turkish: طمر (damar), عرق (ʿırk)
Persian: سیاهرگ (fa) (siyâhrag), ورید (fa) (varid)
Piedmontese: ven-a f
Plautdietsch: Oda f
Polish: żyła (pl) f
Portuguese: veia (pt) f
Romagnol: véna f
Romanian: venă (ro) f, vână (ro)
Romansch: avaina f, avagna f
Russian: ве́на (ru) f (véna), жи́ла (ru) f (žíla)
Sardinian: vena f, bena f, benu
Scottish Gaelic: cuisle f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: вена f, жила f
Roman: vena (sh) f, žila (sh) f
Slovak: žila f
Slovene: vena f
Spanish: vena (es) f
Sudovian: gīsla f
Swahili: mshipa (sw), vena
Swedish: ven (sv) c
Tagalog: (literally) ugat (tl) n, bena, balidaluyan, ugat-anuran
Tahitian: uaua
Tajik: варид (varid), вена (vena)
Tamil: சிரை (ta) (cirai)
Tarifit: aẓwar m
Tausug: ugat
Telugu: సిర (te) (sira)
Tetum: uat
Thai: หลอดเลือดดำ (lɔ̀ɔt-lʉ̂ʉat-dam), เส้นเลือด (sên-lʉ̂ʉat), เส้นเลือดดำ (sên-lʉ̂ʉat-dam)
Tibetan: ཁྲག་རྩ (khrag rtsa)
Tok Pisin: mambu bilong blut
Turkish: damar (tr)
Turkmen: damar, wena
Ukrainian: ве́на f (véna), жи́ла f (žýla)
Urdu: ورید (varīd)
Uzbek: tomir (uz), vena (uz), vena tomiri
Vietnamese: tĩnh mạch (vi) (靜脈 (vi))
Voro: verisuun
Walloon: voenne (wa) f
Welsh: gwythïen (cy) f
Western Bukidnon Manobo: uɣat
White Hmong: leeg
Yiddish: אָדער m (oder)
Zhuang: meg :
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### Verb

vein (third-person singular simple present veins, present participle veining, simple past and past participle veined)
* To mark with veins or a vein-like pattern.
** 1853, Henry William Herbert, chapter 18, in The Roman Traitor‎, volume II, Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, page 204:[…] as he ceased from that wild imprecation, a faint flash of lightning veined the remote horizon, and a low clap of thunder rumbled afar off, echoing among the hills […]
** 1920, Melville Davisson Post, chapter 14, in The Sleuth of St. James’s Square‎:“We brought out our maps of the region and showed him the old routes and trails veining the whole of it. […] ”

### See also

* artery
* blood vessel
* capillary
* circulatory system
* phlebitis
* vena cava

### Further reading

* vein on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* vein (geology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* “vein”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
* William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “vein”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
* “vein”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

### Anagrams

* nevi, veni-, Vien, vine, Vine

## Estonian
### Etymology

From German Wein during the 19th century, ultimately from Latin vīnum. Doublet of viin (“vodka”). First attested in 1869.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈvei̯n/, [ˈvei̯n]
* Rhymes: -ein
* Hyphenation: vein

### Noun

vein (genitive veini, partitive veini)
* wine (alcoholic beverage obtained by fermentation of berry or fruit juice)
    kuiv vein ― dry wine
    magus vein ― sweet wine
    punane vein ― red wine
    valge vein ― white wine
    roosa vein ― rosé

#### Derived terms

* veinindus
* veinine
* veinitama

#### Compounds

* angervaksavein
* armulauavein
* dessertvein
* gaseervein
* hõõgvein
* karusmarjavein
* kirsivein
* kloostrivein
* koduvein
* lauavein
* majavein
* margivein
* marjavein
* meevein
* muskaatvein
* mustasõstravein
* mustsõstravein
* naturaalvein
* nõgesevein
* pakivein
* palmivein
* peedivein
* pihlakavein
* piiritusvein
* portvein
* punasesõstravein
* puuviljavein
* põldmarjavein
* reinvein
* riisivein
* roseevein
* sõstravein
* tomativein
* toorvein
* vaadivein
* vahuvein
* viinamarjavein
* õunavein
* veinhapu
* veiniaam
* veiniankur
* veinibaar
* veinibarrel
* veinijumal
* veinikaart
* veinikarahvin
* veinikaste
* veinikelder
* veiniklaas
* veinilake
* veinilurr
* veinimaa
* veinimarinaad
* veinimark
* veinipokaal
* veinipudel
* veinipunane
* veinipärm
* veinisort
* veinisõber
* veinisõõm
* veinitarretis
* veiniteadus
* veinitehas
* veinitoodang
* veiniuim
* veinivaat
* veiniäädikas
* veinpunane

### References

* vein in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
* “vein”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
* “vein”, in [SP] Eesti keele sõnapered [Estonian Word Families] (in Estonian) (online version, continuously updated), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2012–
* Jüri Viikberg (2024) “vein”, in [YSL] Ülemsaksa laensõnad eesti keeles [High German Loanwords in the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online dictionary)

## Finnish
### Verb

vein
* first-person singular indicative past of viedä

### Noun

vein
* instructive plural of vee

### Anagrams

* evin, vien

## Gallo
### Etymology

From Old French vin, from Latin vīnum, from Proto-Indo-European *wóyh₁nom.

### Noun

vein m (plural veins)
* wine

## Icelandic
### Etymology

Deverbal from veina (“to wail”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /veiːn/
* Rhymes: -eiːn

### Noun

vein n (genitive singular veins, nominative plural vein)
* wail, lament

#### Declension
## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Old French vain, from Latin vānus (“empty”). The noun is derived from the adjective.

#### Adjective

vein
* vain (worthless, useless)
* vain (futile, ineffectual)
* unfounded, false, misleading
* (of a person, the heart, the mind, etc.) foolish, gullible

##### Alternative forms

* veine, veigne, veiin, veiine, ven, vain, vaine, wein, wain, waine

##### Descendants

* English: vain
* Scots: vane, vain, vaine

#### Noun

vein (uncountable)
* something that is worthless or futile
* idleness, triviality

##### Alternative forms

* weine; wan, wane (Northern); feinne (Southwestern)

##### Descendants

* English: vain

#### References

* “vein, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
* “vein, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

vein (plural veines)
* Alternative form of veine (“vein”)

### Etymology 3
#### Adverb

vein
* Alternative form of fain