different between slove vs sloven

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??v

Verb

slove

1. simple past tense of slive

Anagrams

• Loves, loves, solve, voles, voëls

Czech

Alternative forms

• sluje

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?slov?]

Verb

slove

1. (archaic) third-person singular present of slout

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

slove (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. third-person singular present of sluti

Slovak

Noun

slove

1. locative singular of slovo

English

Etymology

From Middle Flemish sloovin (“a scold”). Related to Middle Dutch sloef (“untidy, shabby”), from Proto-Germanic *slup- + Old French -ain, from Latin -anus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sl?v?n/
• Rhymes: -?v?n

Noun

sloven (plural slovens)

1. A habitually dirty or untidy man or boy; the male equivalent of slattern, or slut.
2. A low, base, lewd person.
3. (obsolete) An immoral woman.

Synonyms

• (man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order): cutterman, scruff, slob; See also Thesaurus:untidy person
• (immoral woman): See also Thesaurus:promiscuous woman

Derived terms

• slovenliness
• slovenly
• slovenness
• slovenry

Translations

Anagrams

• Lovens, novels

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?v?n

Noun

sloven

1. Plural form of sloof

Friulian

Adjective

sloven

1. Slovene

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

sloven m (definite singular slovenen, indefinite plural slovenar, definite plural slovenane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by slovenar

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Serbo-Croatian Sloven.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [slo?ven]

Adjective

sloven m or n (feminine singular sloven?, masculine plural sloveni, feminine and neuter plural slovene)

1. (of a person) Slovene, Slovenian

Declension

Noun

sloven m (plural sloveni, feminine equivalent sloven?)

1. a Slovene/Slovenian person

Declension

Swedish

Noun

sloven c

1. A person from Slovenia, chiefly male

Declension

See also

• slovenska

Anagrams

• lovens