# pen
## English
### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /pɛn/
* Audio (General American):(file)
* Audio (US, Inland Northern American):(file)
* (pin–pen merger) IPA: /pɪn/
* Homophone: pin (pin–pen merger)
* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Etymology 1

From Middle English pen, penne (“enclosure for animals”), from Old English penn (“enclosure, fold, pen”), from Proto-Germanic *pennō, *pannijō (“pin, bolt, nail, tack”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pin.
Sense “prison” originally figurative extension to “enclosure for persons” (1845), later influenced by penitentiary (“prison”), being analyzed as an abbreviation (1884).

#### Noun

pen (plural pens)
* An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle.
    There are two steers in the third pen.
* (slang) A penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons.
    They caught him with a stolen horse, and he wound up in the pen again.
* (baseball) The bullpen.
    Two righties are up in the pen.

##### Derived terms

* blast pen
* bullpen
* crush pen
* goose-pen
* hogpen
* Pen Mill (or perhaps from Etymology 3)
* potato pen
* shuck pen

##### Related terms

* pin

##### Translations
### Etymology 2

From Middle English pennen, from Old English *pennian (“to close, lock, bolt”, attested in onpennian (“to open”)), derived from penn (see above). Akin to Low German pennen (“to secure a door with a bolt”).

#### Verb

pen (third-person singular simple present pens, present participle penning, simple past and past participle penned or pent)
* (transitive) To enclose in a pen.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book IV”, 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:Watching where shepherds pen their flocks at eve.

##### Derived terms

* pen up
* pent
* pent-up

##### Translations
### Etymology 3

From Middle English penne, from Anglo-Norman penne, from Old French penne, from Latin penna (“feather”), from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ ~ pth₂én- (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to rush, fly”) (from which petition). Proto-Indo-European base also root of *petra-, from which Ancient Greek πτερόν (pterón, “wing”) (whence pterodactyl), Sanskrit पत्रम् (patram, “wing, feather”), Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “pen”), Old Norse fjǫðr, Old English feðer (Modern English feather); note the /p/ → /f/ Germanic sound change.
Doublet of panne, penna, and pinna. See feather and πέτομαι (pétomai) for more.

#### Noun

pen (plural pens)
* A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks.
    He took notes with a pen.
* (figurative) A writer, or their style.
    He has a sharp pen.
** 1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI):those learned pens
* (colloquial) Marks of ink left by a pen.
    He's unhappy because he got pen on his new shirt.
* A light pen.
* (zoology) The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen.
** 2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 117:A pen is nothing more complex than a decalcified shell, so one mutation of the genes that controlled calcification could be all it took.
* (now rare, poetic, dialectal) A feather, especially one of the flight feathers of a bird, angel etc.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:And eke the pennes, that did his pineons bynd, Were like mayne-yards, with flying canuas lynd, With which whenas him liſt the ayre to beat […]
* (poetic) A wing.
** 1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, 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:but feather'd soon and fledge They summed their pens, and soaring the air sublime
* A syringe-like device for injecting a dose of medication such as insulin or epinephrine. (See Injector pen.)
** 2023 August 29, Geri Krotow, A Wasp in the Woods, Tule Publishing, →ISBN:"I'm sure she had more than one EpiPen […] " "But she didn't have one when she got stung or she'd have used it." By all appearances, Mariah died in the woods, […] If she managed to grab the pen found under her leg from her bag or pocket, she never discharged it. But Crystal doesn't have these details. "Doesn't it make sense that she kept an extra pen in her cupboard, and one in her bag? The extra pen fell out, is all."
* Short for vapor pen (“electronic cigarette”).
    a dab pen; a wax pen

##### Derived terms

* 3D pen
* ball pen
* ball-point pen
* beard pen
* border pen
* bow pen
* brush pen
* bull pen
* cartridge pen
* conductive pen
* dab pen
* dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
* dip pen
* don't dip your pen in company ink
* electric pen
* eraser pen
* feather pen
* felt pen
* felt-tipped pen
* felt-tip pen
* fountain pen
* fude-pen
* fude pen
* gel pen
* geometric pen
* glass dip pen
* glass pen
* goose-pen
* goose pen
* ink pen
* J pen
* keelyvine pen
* knight of the pen
* laser pen
* lettering pen
* marker pen
* marking pen
* music pen
* nib pen
* pen and ink
* pen-and-ink money
* pen-and-paper
* pen and paper
* pen-and-wash
* pen cancellation
* pen drive
* pen-driver
* pen feather
* penfriend
* pen gun
* pen licence
* penmanship
* pen-mate
* pen name
* pen painting
* pen pal
* pen pencil
* pen picture
* pen portrait
* pen-pusher
* pen register
* pen shell
* pen spinning
* pen-tailed treeshrew
* pentel pen
* penthusiasm
* pen torch
* poison pen
* poison-pen letter
* put pen to paper
* quill pen
* reed pen
* ruling pen
* sea pen
* set pen to paper
* shading pen
* slip of the pen
* stylographic pen
* tactical pen
* technical pen
* the pen is mightier than the sword
* touch pen
* vape pen
* vapor pen
* veto pen
* you don't dip your pen in company ink
* you don't dip your pen in the company inkwell
* you don't dip your pen in the company's ink
* you don't dip your pen in the inkwell

##### Translations

Abkhaz: аҩы́га (ajʷə́ga)
Afrikaans: pen
Albanian: stilolaps (sq) m
Amharic: ብዕር (bəʿr), እስክርቢቶ (ʾəskərbito)
Arabic: قَلَم (ar) m (qalam), قَلَم حِبْر m (qalam ḥibr)
Egyptian Arabic: قلم m (ʔalam)
Hijazi Arabic: قلم m (galam)
Moroccan: ستيلو m (stīlu)
Armenian: գրիչ (hy) (gričʻ)
Assamese: কলম (kolom), কাপ (kap), লিখনি (likhoni)
Asturian: bolígrafu (ast) m
Azerbaijani: qələm (az), pero (az), ruçka
Bashkir: ҡәләм (qələm)
Basque: luma
Belarusian: ру́чка f (rúčka), пяро́ n (pjaró)
Bengali: কলম (bn) (kolom), লিখনী (likhoni)
Bulgarian: писа́лка (bg) f (pisálka), перо́ (bg) n (peró)
Burmese: ကလောင် (my) (ka.laung), ဘောပင် (bhau:pang) (ballpoint pen)
Buryat: гуурһан (guurhan)
Carpathian Rusyn: ру́чка f (rúčka)
Catalan: bolígraf (ca) m
Chechen: язолг (jazolg), ручка (ručka)
Chinese:
Cantonese: 筆 / 笔 (yue) (bat$^1$)
Eastern Min: 筆 / 笔 (bék)
Hakka: 筆 / 笔 (pit), 鋼筆 / 钢笔 (kong-pit)
Hokkien: 筆 / 笔 (zh-min-nan) (pit)
Jin: 鋼筆 / 钢笔 (gon$^1$ bieh$^4$)
Mandarin: 鋼筆 / 钢笔 (zh) (gāngbǐ) (fountain pen), 筆 / 笔 (zh) (bǐ) (also writing brush), 圓珠筆 / 圆珠笔 (zh) (yuánzhūbǐ) (ballpoint pen)
Wu: 筆 / 笔
Xiang: 鋼筆 / 钢笔 (gan$^1$ bi$^6$)
Chuvash: калем (kalem)
Coptic: ⲕⲁϣ m (kaš)
Cornish: pluven f
Czech: pero (cs) n
Danish: pen (da) c
Dhivehi: ގަލަން (dv) (galan̊)
Dutch: pen (nl) f
Egyptian: (ꜥr m)
Esperanto: plumo (eo), globkrajono
Estonian: sulepea, sulg (et), pastapliiats (et) (ballpoint pen), pastakas (et) (ballpoint pen)
Faroese: pennur m
Finnish: kynä (fi), mustekynä (fi)
French: plume (fr) f, stylo (fr) m
Fula:
Adlam: 𞤧𞤫𞤼𞥆𞤵𞤺𞤮𞤤
Roman: settugol
Galician: bolígrafo (gl) m
Georgian: კალამი (ḳalami), პასტა (ṗasṭa)
German: Kugelschreiber (de) m (ballpoint pen), Stift (de) m, Federhalter (de) m, Füllhalter (de) m (fountain pen), Feder (de) f, Kuli (de) m (colloquial)
Greek: στυλό (el) n (styló), στιλό (el) n (stiló)
Ancient: γραφίς f (graphís)
Gujarati: કલમ (gu) f (kalam), પેન ? (pen)
Hausa: alƙalami
Hebrew: עֵט (he) m (et)
Hindi: लेखनी (hi) f (lekhnī), क़लम f (qalam), पेन (hi) m (pen)
Hungarian: toll (hu), irón (hu), golyóstoll (hu), töltőtoll (hu)
Icelandic: penni (is) m
Ido: plumo (io)
Indonesian: pen (id), pena (id)
Interlingua: penna
Irish: peann (ga) m
Italian: penna (it) f
Japanese: ペン (ja) (pen), ボールペン (ja) (bōrupen) (ballpoint pen), 万年筆 (ja) (まんねんひつ, mannenhitsu) (fountain pen)
Kalmyk: бичүр (biçür), ручк (ruçk)
Kannada: ಪೆನ್ (pen)
Kazakh: қалам (kk) (qalam), қаламсап (qalamsap)
Khmer: ប៉ាកកា (km) (paakkaa), ដងប៉ាកកា (dɑɑng paakkaa), ស្ទីឡូ (stiilou), លេខនី (km) (leikhaʼnii), ប៊ិច (bɨc)
Kikuyu: karamu
Korean: 펜 (ko) (pen), 볼펜 (ko) (bolpen) (ballpoint pen), 만년필(萬年筆) (ko) (mannyeonpil) (fountain pen), 원주필(圓珠筆) (ko) (wonjupil) (ballpoint pen, North Korea)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: پێنووس (ckb) (pênûs)
Northern Kurdish: pênûs (ku), qelem (ku)
Kyrgyz: калем (ky) (kalem), калемсап (ky) (kalemsap), жазгыч (ky) (jazgıc)
Lao: ປາກກາ (pāk kā), ບິກ (lo) (bik), ປາກໄ່ກ່ (pāk kai), ສໍປາກກາ (sǭ pāk kā)
Latin: calamus (la) m
Latvian: pildspalva f
Lithuanian: rašiklis m, plunksna (lt) f
Luganda: bayiro
Luhya: ekalamu
Luxembourgish: Stëft m
Macedonian: пенкало n (penkalo)
Malay: pen mata, pen (ms), pena, kalam (ms)
Malayalam: പേന (ml) (pēna)
Maltese: pinna f
Maori: pene
Marathi: लेखणी (mr) f (lekhṇī)
Meru: karamu
Mokilese: pehn
Mongolian:
Cyrillic: үзэг (mn) (üzeg)
Mongolian: ᠦᠵᠦᠭ (üǰüg)
Navajo: bee akʼeʼelchíhí tóhígíí
Nepali: कलम (ne) (kalam), पेन (pen)
Ngazidja Comorian: kalamu class 9/10
Norman: plieunme f (Jersey), plleume f (Guernsey)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: penn (no) m
Nynorsk: penn m
Odia: କଲମ (or) (kalama)
Old English: feþer f
Oromo: kobbee
Ossetian: фыссӕн (fyssæn), ручкӕ (ruḱkæ)
Ottoman Turkish: قلم (kalem), خامه (hame)
Pannonian Rusyn: писадло n (pisadlo), пирко n (pirko)
Pashto: قلم (ps) m (qalam), ليکاړی (līkāṛay)
Persian:
Classical Persian: قَلَم (qalam), خْوَدْکَار (xwadkār)
Dari: قَلَم (qalam), خوَدْکَار (xudkār)
Iranian Persian: قَلَم (ğalam), خودْکار (xodkâr)
Polish: pióro (pl) n, długopis (pl) m inan
Portuguese: caneta (pt) f
Punjabi: ਕਲਮ f (kalam), ਕ਼ਲਮ f (qalam)
Shahmukhi: قلم f (qalam)
Quechua: qillqana
Rade: plim
Romanian: stilou (ro) n, pix (ro) n (ballpoint pen)
Russian: ру́чка (ru) f (rúčka), автору́чка (ru) f (avtorúčka), перо́ (ru) n (peró), ша́риковая ру́чка (ru) f (šárikovaja rúčka) (ballpoint pen)
Sanskrit: लेखनी (sa) f (lekhanī)
Scottish Gaelic: peann m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: пѐро n, хе́мӣјска̄ о̀ло̄вка f (ballpoint pen, Bosnia and Serbia), ке́мӣјска̄ о̀ло̄вка f (ballpoint pen, Croatia), пенка́ла f
Roman: pèro (sh) n, hémījskā òlōvka f (ballpoint pen, Bosnia and Serbia), kémījskā òlōvka f (ballpoint pen, Croatia), penkála (sh) f
Sinhalese: පෑන (si) (pǣna)
Slovak: pero n
Slovene: pero (sl) n
Somali: qalin (so)
Spanish: pluma (es) f (not a ballpoint pen), bolígrafo (es) m, boli (es) m (colloquial, short form for bolígrafo), lapicera f, lapicero (es) m, esfero (es) m, lapiz de pasta m
Swahili: kalamu (sw) class 9/10
Swedish: penna (sv) c, bläckpenna (sv) c
Tagalog: pluma
Tajik: қалам (tg) (qalam), ручка (tg) (ručka), хом (xom), худкор (xudkor)
Tamil: பேனா (ta) (pēṉā), எழுதுகோல் (ta) (eḻutukōl)
Tatar: каләм (tt) (qaläm)
Telugu: పెన్ను (pennu), కలము (te) (kalamu), కలం (te) (kalaṁ)
Thai: ปากกา (th) (bpàak-gaa)
Tibetan: སྨྱུག་གུ (smyug gu)
Tigrinya: ብርዒ ? (bərʿi), ፒሮ ? (piro)
Turkish: kalem (tr), yazgaç (tr)
Turkmen: ruçka, agyl (tk)
Tuvan: демир-үжүк (demir-üjük)
Ukrainian: ру́чка f (rúčka), перо́ n (peró)
Urdu: لِکْھنی m or f (likhnī), قَلَم m or f (qalam)
Uyghur: قەلەم (ug) (qelem), گاڭبى (gangbi), ماي قەلەم (may qelem)
Uzbek: ruchka (uz), qalam (uz)
Vietnamese: bút mực (vi), bút bi (vi) (ballpoint pen), bút máy (fountain pen), viết mực (vi), viết máy, bút (vi)
Walloon: pene (wa) f, bik (wa) m
Welsh: pìn m, ysgrifbin m
Yiddish: פֿעדער f (feder), פּען f (pen)
Yoruba: kálámù
Zhuang: ganghbiz
Zulu: ipeni (zu) class 5/6 :

#### Verb

pen (third-person singular simple present pens, present participle penning, simple past and past participle penned)
* (transitive) To write (an article, a book, etc.).
** 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect, Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nonuel:Prying open the crate, you discover a carefully wrapped, handwritten copy of one of Matriarch Dilinaga's treatises. It is unlikely she penned it herself, but the flowing brushwork and intricate watercolor illustrations clearly show the hand of a master scribe.
** 2021 February 9, Christina Newland, “Is Tom Hanks part of a dying breed of genuine movie stars?”, in BBC‎:His two most recent films are last year's Greyhound, a Hanks-penned World War Two thriller in which he plays a naval commander, and now News of the World, a Western set in the years immediately following the close of the US Civil War, directed by Paul Greengrass, which is premiering around the world on Netflix tomorrow.
** 2021 December 29, Conrad Landin, “Glasgow Subway: a city institution”, in RAIL, number 947, page 45:It was in this era, too, that author and Scotland the Brave songwriter Cliff Hanley penned The Glasgow Underground, a tongue-in-cheek love letter to the Subway in song.

##### Derived terms

* copen, co-pen
* repen, re-pen

##### Translations
### Etymology 4

Origin uncertain. Compare hen.

#### Noun

pen (plural pens)
* A female swan.

##### Synonyms

* swaness (rare)

##### Translations
### Etymology 5

Clipping of penalty.

#### Noun

pen (plural pens)
* (soccer, slang) Penalty.

### Etymology 6

Clipping of penetration.

#### Noun

pen (plural pens)
* (computing, informal) Penetration.

##### Derived terms

* pen test

### Etymology 7

By incorrect analogy with man → men.

#### Noun

pen (uncountable)
* (humorous) plural of pan

### References

* 1 2 Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “pen”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

### See also

* pin-pen merger

### Anagrams

* NEP, Nep, PNe, nep

## Angloromani
### Alternative forms

* pan, pey

### Etymology

Inherited from Romani phen.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpʰen], [ˈpen], [pʰɛn]

### Noun

pen
* sister
    Synonyms: minnipen, rakla
    Sa see pal te pen? ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

#### Derived terms

* minnipen
* stiffa pen

### References

* “pen”, in Angloromani Dictionary‎, The Manchester Romani Project, 2004-2006, page 132

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### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *penn, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom, of uncertain derivation.

### Noun

pen
* head
* top, summit

### References

* Attested in Cumbric toponymic compounds and phrasal names (Pen-y-Ghent)

## Danish
### Etymology 1

From late Old Norse penni, from Latin penna (“feather”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛnˀ/, [pʰɛnˀ]

#### Noun

pen c (singular definite pennen, plural indefinite penne)
* pen
* quill
* pane, peen

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

pen (neuter pent, plural and definite singular attributive pene, comparative penere, superlative (predicative) penest, superlative (attributive) peneste)
* Obsolete spelling of pæn.

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch penne, ultimately from Latin penna. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛn/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: pen
* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Noun

pen f (plural pennen, diminutive pennetje n)
* a long feather of a bird
* pen (writing utensil)
* pin
    Synonym: pin

#### Derived terms

* aardingspen
* balpen
* kroontjespen
* pendag
* penhamer
* pennenbak
* pennenstrijd
* pennenvrucht
* pennenzak
* pennist
* penwortel
* scharnierpen
* slagpen
* staartpen
* vulpen
* zadelpen

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: pen
* Negerhollands: pen
* → Caribbean Hindustani: pen
* → Caribbean Javanese: pèn
* → Indonesian: pen
* → Japanese: ペン (pen)
* → Papiamentu: pèn, pen, pènchi, pennetsje (from the diminutive)
* → Sranan Tongo: pen
** → Saramaccan: peni

### Anagrams

* nep

## Haitian Creole
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛ̃/

### Etymology 1

From French pain (“bread”).

#### Noun

pen
* bread

##### Derived terms

* pen griye (“toast”)
* pen mayi (“corncake”)

### Etymology 2

From French pin.

#### Noun

pen
* A pine tree, especially the Hispaniola pine.

### References

* Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɛn]
* Hyphenation: pèn

### Etymology 1

From Dutch pen, from Latin penna (“feather, pen”). Doublet of pena.

#### Noun

pèn (plural pen-pen)
* (nonstandard) alternative form of pena (“pen”)
* (medicine) pin, metal used to fasten or as a bearing

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pen
* (slang) syncopic form of pengen

### Further reading

* “pen” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Japanese
### Romanization

pen
* Rōmaji transcription of ペン

## Mandarin
### Romanization

pen
* Nonstandard spelling of pēn.
* Nonstandard spelling of pén.
* Nonstandard spelling of pěn.
* Nonstandard spelling of pèn.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Mapudungun
### Verb

pen (Raguileo spelling)
* to see
    Synonym: petun

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman penne.

#### Noun

pen
* Alternative form of penne

### Etymology 2

From Old English penn, from Proto-Germanic *pennō, perhaps from the root of pinn (“peg, pin”).

#### Alternative forms

* penne, peyn

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛn/
* Rhymes: -ɛn

#### Noun

pen
* An enclosed structure for securing animals.

##### Related terms

* pennen

##### Descendants

* English: pen
* Scots: pen

##### References

* “pen, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-24.
* Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “pen”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

## Mindiri
### Noun

pen
* woman

### Further reading

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

## Mokilese
### Noun

pen
* coconut, especially one that coconut milk can be drunk from

#### Inflection
## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

Possibly from French.

### Adjective

pen (neuter singular pent, definite singular and plural pene, comparative penere, indefinite superlative penest, definite superlative peneste)
* nice
    pent vær ― nice weather
* neat
* beautiful, pretty
* handsome, good-looking

### References

* “pen” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

Possibly from French.

### Adjective

pen (neuter singular pent, definite singular and plural pene, comparative penare, indefinite superlative penast, definite superlative penaste)
* nice
    pent vêr ― nice weather
* neat
* beautiful, pretty
* handsome, good-looking

### References

* “pen” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *kʷennom.

### Noun

pen
* head
** c. 1200, Latin-Old Cornish Glossary in British Library MS Cotton Vespasian A XIV, folio 7 recto:
    Capud. pen.Head. — head.

## Portuguese
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pen [drive].

### Pronunciation

* (Brazil) IPA: /ˈpẽj̃/ [ˈpẽɪ̯̃]
* (Portugal) IPA: /ˈpɛn/
* Hyphenation: pen

### Noun

pen f (plural pens)
* (computing) pen drive, flash drive (small portable device that connects to a computer via a USB port and is used to store and/or transfer data)
    Synonyms: chave de memória, pen-drive
    Comprei uma pen de 16 GB. ― I bought a 16 GB flash drive.

### References

* ↑ “pen”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
* ↑ “pen”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

## Rade
### Etymology

Borrowed from French pince.

### Noun

pen
* pincers

## Romani
### Pronoun

pen
* themselves (third-person plural reflexive pronoun)

#### See also
## Tok Pisin
### Etymology 1

From English paint.

#### Noun

pen
* paint

### Etymology 2

From English pen.

#### Noun

pen
* pen

### Etymology 3

From English pain.

#### Noun

pen
* pain
** 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 3:16:Na God i tokim meri olsem, “Bai mi givim yu bikpela hevi long taim yu gat bel. Na bai yu gat bikpela pen long taim yu karim pikinini. Tasol bai yu gat bikpela laik yet long man bilong yu, na bai em i bosim yu.”→New International Version translation

## Volapük
### Noun

pen (nominative plural pens)
* pen

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

## Welsh

Picture dictionary :
pen
penglog
talcen
ymennydd
ael
llygad
gwefus
trwyn
ceg
gên
boch
clust
arlais
gwddf
or
llwnc
gwddf
gwar :

### Etymology

From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh penn, from Proto-Brythonic *penn, from Proto-Celtic *kʷennom.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛn/
* Rhymes: -ɛn

### Noun

pen m (plural pennau)
* (anatomy) head
* chief
* top, apex
* end, extremity

#### Derived terms

* goben (“penult”)
* gobennol (“penultimate”)
* gobennu (“to terminate, to accent on the penultimate syllable”)
* penglog (“skull”)
* pengoch (“redheaded”)
* pen tost (“headache”)
* pen tŷ (“roof”)
* pen-blwydd (“anniversary, birthday”)
* penddu (“blackheaded”)
* penfeddw (“giddy, lightheaded”)
* penfelyn (“yellow-headed”)
* penllwyd (“grey-haired”)
* pennaeth (“chief, leader”)
* pennog (“herring”)
* pennol (“capital, important”)
* penrhudd (“wild marjoram”)
* pensyfrdan (“stunned, bewildered”)
* penty (“penthouse”)
* penwyn (“white-headed”)
* uwchben (“overhead, above”)
* ymhen

### Adjective

pen (feminine singular pen, plural pen, equative penned, comparative pennach, superlative pennaf)
* head, chief
    Synonym: prif
* supreme, principal
    Synonyms: pennol, blaenol

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### References

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pen”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies