fountain

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EnglishEdit

A fountain in Stockholm, Sweden.

EtymologyEdit

From Middle English; from Old French fontaine (=modern); from Late Latin fontana, from Latin fontanus, fontaneus, adjectives from fons (“spring, source”)

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈfaʊn.tn̩/

• Audio (US)

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NounEdit

fountain (plural fountains)

1. (originally) A spring, natural source of water.
2. An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
3. The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
   • 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:

     As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.

4. A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
5. A source, origin of a flow (e.g. of favors, of knowledge).
6. A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that thows it.
7. (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
8. (US) A soda fountain.

SynonymsEdit

• fount
• wellspring

Derived termsEdit

terms derived from fountain (noun)

• fountainlet
• fountain pen
• fountainhead

• drinking fountain
• soda fountain
• water fountain

Related termsEdit

• font
• fountaineer

TranslationsEdit

spring — see spring

artificial water feature

• Abkhaz: аӡыршә (āʒərš°)
• Afrikaans: fontein
• Albanian: burim (sq) m
• Arabic: نَافُورَة f (nāfūra)
• Armenian: շատրվան (hy) (šatrvan)
• Azeri: fəvvarə (az), fontan
• Belarusian: фанта́н m (fantán), вадагра́й m (vadahráj) (dated)
• Breton: feunteun (br) f
• Bulgarian: фонтан (bg) m (fontan), шадраван (bg) m (šadravan)
• Burmese: ရေပန်း (my) (repan:)
• Catalan: font (ca)
• Chechen: xизаза (xizaza)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噴泉 (zh), 喷泉 (zh) (pēnquán), 噴水池 (zh), 喷水池 (zh) (pēnshuǐchí)

• Chuvash: пӗрхӗнчӗк (pĕrhĕnčĕk)
• Czech: fontána f, kašna f
• Danish: springvand (da) n, fontæne c
• Dutch: fontein (nl) f
• Estonian: allikas, purskkaev
• Finnish: suihkulähde
• French: fontaine (fr) f
• Friulian: fontane f
• Galician: fonte f
• Georgian: შადრევანი (šadrevani)
• German: Springbrunnen (de) m
• Greek: συντριβάνι n (syntriváni)
• Hebrew: מִזרָקָה f (mizraka)
• Hindi: सोता (hi) (sotā)
• Hungarian: kút (hu)
• Icelandic: gosbrunnur (is)
• Indonesian: air mancur
• Italian: fontana (it)
• Japanese: 噴水 (ja) (ふんすい, funsui)
• Kazakh: бұрқақ (burqaq), су атқыш (sw atqış), су бұрқақ (sw burqaq)
• Khmer: ប្រភពទឹក (prɑpʰup tɨk)
• Korean: 분수 (ko) (bunsu) (噴水 (ko))
• Kyrgyz: фонтан (ky) (fontan), оргума (ky) (orguma)
• Ladin: funtana f

• Lakota: wiwila
• Lao: ນ້ຳພຸ (nam phu)
• Latvian: strūklaka (lv) f, fontāns m
• Lithuanian: fontanas m
• Lü: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: фонта́на f (fontána)
• Malay: air pancut
• Maori: puna torotī
• Marathi: कारंजा m (kāranjā)
• Mongolian: булаг (mn) (bulag), эх булаг (eh bulag), усан оргилуур (usan orgiluur)
• Nahuatl: āmēyalli
• Navajo: tó háálį́įgo bá hazʼą́
• Norwegian: springvann

  Bokmål: fontene (no) m

  Nynorsk: fontene f

• Persian: فواره (fa) (favâre), آب‌نما (fa) (âb-namâ)
• Polish: fontanna (pl) f
• Portuguese: fonte (pt) f, chafariz (pt) m
• Romanian: fântână (ro) f
• Russian: фонта́н (ru) m (fontán)
• Sardinian: fantana f, funtana f, puntana f
• Serbo-Croatian: fòntāna (sh) f, фо̀нта̄на f
• Sicilian: funtana (scn) f
• Slovak: fontána (sk) f
• Slovene: vodna fontana f, fontana f
• Spanish: fuente (es) f
• Swedish: fontän (sv), springbrunn (sv) vattenkonst (sv)
• Tagalog: bátis
• Tajik: фаввора (favvora)
• Tatar: фонтан (fontan)
• Thai: น้ำพุ (náam-pú)
• Turkish: çeşme (tr)
• Turkmen: fontan, çüwdürim
• Ukrainian: фонта́н m (fontán), водогра́й (uk) m (vodohráj)
• Uzbek: fontan (uz), favvora (uz)
• Vietnamese: suối nước, đài phun nước
• Yiddish: please add this translation if you can
• Yucatec Maya: sayab ha'

structure from which a fountain issues

• Afrikaans: fontein
• Armenian: շատրվան (hy) (šatrvan)
• Bulgarian: фонтан (bg) m (fontan)
• Czech: fontána f
• Dutch: fontein (nl) f
• Finnish: suihkulähde

• French: fontaine (fr) f
• Latvian: strūklaka (lv) f
• Portuguese: fonte (pt) f, chafariz (pt) m
• Russian: фонта́н (ru) m (fontán)
• Serbo-Croatian: fòntāna (sh)
• Ukrainian: фонта́н m (fontán)

source, origin of a flow

• Armenian: աղբյուր (hy) (ałbyur), ակ (hy) (ak), ակունք (hy) (akunkʿ)
• Bulgarian: източник (bg) m (iztočnik)
• Dutch: bron (nl)
• Finnish: lähde (fi)

• Greek: πηγή (el) f (pigí)
• Portuguese: fonte (pt) f
• Russian: исто́чник (ru) m (istóčnik), кла́дезь (ru) m (kládezʹ)
• Ukrainian: джерело (uk) n (džereló)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Afrikaans: ^{(please verify)} fontein, ^{(please verify)} bron
• Basque: ^{(please verify)} iturri
• French: ^{(please verify)} fontaine (fr) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Brunnen (de) m
• Hebrew: ^{(please verify)} ברזיה f, ^{(please verify)} מזרקה f

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} fontana (it) f
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} fons (la)
• Scottish Gaelic: ^{(please verify)} fuaran m, ^{(please verify)} tobar m
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} fuente (es) f

VerbEdit

fountain (third-person singular simple present fountains, present participle fountaining, simple past and past participle fountained)

1. (intransitive) To flow or gush as if from a fountain.

   Lava fountained from the volcano.

   • Tom Reamy, Blind Voices

     The fireflies swept toward him from all directions, in streams and rivers and currents of light, a vortex a hundred yards across, spiraling into the brighter center. They met over his supine body like ocean breakers, cascading, fountaining into the air.

TranslationsEdit

to flow or gush as if from a fountain

• Finnish: pulputa

Further readingEdit

• fountain on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

AnagramsEdit

• infonaut

ReferencesEdit