harpoen

== Dutch == === Etymology === From Middle Dutch arpoen, from Old French harpon (“hook, hold-on”). Cognate with English harpoon, German Harpune. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɦɑrˈpun/ Hyphenation: har‧poen Rhymes: -un === Noun === harpoen m (plural harpoenen, diminutive harpoentje n) a harpoon, short spearlike weapon with a barbed head thrown at the target, of various sizes and types, e.g. used for whaling some similar weapons (heraldry) a figure representing a harpoon ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== Negerhollands: harpoen → Lokono: harpona → Danish: harpun → German: Harpune→ Polish: harpun→ Russian: гарпу́н (garpún), гарпу́нъ (garpún) — pre-1918 spelling→ Ukrainian: гарпу́н (harpún)→ Serbo-Croatian: hàrpūn → Norwegian Bokmål: harpun → Norwegian Nynorsk: harpun → Papiamentu: harpun, arpun → Swedish: harpun → Finnish: harppuuna === References === van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “harpoen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute