dren

From French and English drain.

dren m (plural drens)

1. drain

• “dren”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “dren” in termcat, Centre de Terminologia, 2026.

From Old Cornish drain, from Proto-Brythonic *draɣen, from Proto-Celtic *dregenom (“sloe, blackthorn”). Cognate with Breton draen, Irish draighean (“sloe, blackthorn”), Manx drine, Scottish Gaelic droigheann, and Welsh draen, drain.

dren m (plural dreyn)

1. (botany) thorn

   Synonym: spernen

2. fishbone

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dernъ, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰergʰnós.

• IPA^(key): /drɛn/

dren m ?

1. thorn

• Lehr-Spławiński, T.; Polański, K. (1962), “dren”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław; Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 125
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  Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.Polański, Kazimierz; James Allen Sehnert (1967), “dren”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962), “Drên”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 217

Borrowed from English drain.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdrɛn/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ɛn
• Syllabification: dren

dren m inan

1. drain, drainpipe
2. (medicine) drain, drainage tube

   Synonym: sączek

• “dren”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “dren”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[2] (in Polish)

Borrowed from French drain.

dren n (plural drenuri)

1. drain

• dren in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

• drijȇn (Ijekavian)

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dernъ.

• IPA^(key): /drên/

drȅn m inan (Cyrillic spelling дре̏н) (Ekavian)

1. dogwood, cornel (tree or shrub of the genus Cornus)
2. specifically European cornel

From Proto-Slavic *dernъ.

• IPA^(key): /drɛ́n/

drȅn m inan

1. dogwood (tree or shrub of the genus Cornus)

• “dren”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU (in Slovene), 2014–2026

From English dream.

dren

1. dream

dren

1. to dream
2. to imagine

dren

1. imaginary