Fenster

From Middle High German venster, from Old High German fenstar, from Proto-West Germanic *fenestr (“window”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnstɐ/

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Fenster n (strong, genitive Fensters, plural Fenster, diminutive Fensterchen n or Fensterlein n)

1. window

   sich weit aus dem Fenster lehnen ― to go out on a limb

   Sie schaute auf dem Fenster. ― She looked out the window.

   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 9:

     So dunkel und schauerlich die Gruft aussah, wenn man durch die blinden, bestaubten Scheibchen der kleinen Fenster hineinblickte, so hell und freundlich war oben die Kirche.

     Just as dark and eerie the crypt looked like, if one looked in it through the cloudy, dusted little panes of the small windows, as bright and friendly was the church above.

2. (figuratively) time frame

   Synonym: Zeitfenster

• → English: fenster
• → North Frisian: Fenster

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Inherited from Central Franconian [Term?], from Middle High German venster, from Old High German fenstar, from Proto-West Germanic *fenestr, a borrowing from Latin fenestra.^[1]

Cognate with German Fenster and Luxembourgish Fënster.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛnʃtɐ/
• Hyphenation: Fens‧ter

Fenster n (plural Fenster or Fenstre)

1. pane of glass, windowpane

   Ich mache die Fenster sauber.

   I clean the window panes.