sheen

== English == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ʃiːn/, enPR: shēn Rhymes: -iːn === Etymology 1 === From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show. ==== Adjective ==== sheen (comparative sheener, superlative sheenest) (rare, usually poetic or archaic) Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny. (rare, usually poetic or archaic) Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste. ===== Derived terms ===== sheenly ==== Noun ==== sheen (countable and uncountable, plural sheens) (also figuratively) Splendor; radiance; shininess. A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== sheen (third-person singular simple present sheens, present participle sheening, simple past and past participle sheened) (rare, intransitive, poetic) To shine; to glisten. ===== Translations ===== === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== sheen (plural sheens) The letter ش in the Arabic script. === Further reading === sheen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia