yen

Etymology 1
From Medhurst and Hepburn’s romanizations, under the influence of earlier romanizations, of   as ye or yen, now, from :  +. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) The unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.
 * 2) A coin or note worth one yen.
 * 1) A coin or note worth one yen.
 * 1) A coin or note worth one yen.
 * 1) A coin or note worth one yen.

Translations

 * Arabic: يَن
 * Armenian: յեն
 * Azerbaijani: iena
 * Belarusian: іе́на
 * Bulgarian: йе́на
 * Burmese: ယန်းငွေ
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 日元, 日圓
 * Hokkien: 日圓
 * Mandarin:, , 老日
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: eno, jeno
 * Estonian: jeen
 * Faroese: jennur
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * Georgian: იენა
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: jen
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: yen
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, also:
 * Kazakh: иен
 * Korean:
 * Kyrgyz: иен
 * Lao: ເຢນ
 * Latin: ienum
 * Latvian: jena
 * Lithuanian: jena
 * Macedonian: јен
 * Malay:
 * Maori: iene
 * Marathi: येन
 * Mongolian: иен
 * Occitan: yen
 * Persian: ین
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Samogitian: jena
 * Scottish Gaelic: yen
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: јен
 * Roman: jen
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: yen
 * Tajik: йен
 * Thai: เยน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: є́на
 * Uzbek: yena
 * Vietnamese:
 * Waray-Waray: yen
 * Yiddish: יען


 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, , 老日
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:
 * Japanese:
 * Korean:
 * Malay:
 * Marathi: येन
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: yen

Etymology 2


Origin uncertain, but probably from originally in reference to opium addiction,  or :,. Compare the later yen (“opium”) and.

Noun

 * 1)  A strong desire, urge, or yearning.
 * 2) * 1934, Lew Levenson, chapter XX, in Butterfly Man, New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, ; republished New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, [1960?], , page 208:
 * She repeated the words: "You for me and me for you," then hummed: "Two for tea and tea for two …" Her voice trailed off … "All I got is a yen for Diana and my sweet little cute little Zigzag."
 * 1) * 1934, Lew Levenson, chapter XX, in Butterfly Man, New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, ; republished New York, N.Y.: Castle Books, [1960?], , page 208:
 * She repeated the words: "You for me and me for you," then hummed: "Two for tea and tea for two …" Her voice trailed off … "All I got is a yen for Diana and my sweet little cute little Zigzag."

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Maori: matenui, tōrere
 * Plautdietsch: Janka
 * Spanish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To have a strong desire for.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Spanish:

Etymology 3
From, , or ,. Compare the earlier yen (“strong desire”) and later.

Noun

 * 1)  Opium.

Adverb

 * 1) there

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) cold

Etymology
Borrowed from, from.

Noun

 * 1)  ; Japanese monetary unit and coin

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * , Japanese monetary unit and coin.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  currency

Etymology 1
From, from.

Interjection

 * 1) look here, behold, lo

Conjunction

 * 1) here is, there is

Preposition

 * 1) here is

Etymology 2
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)   Japanese currency

Etymology
From the influence of earlier romanizations, of  as ye or yen, now, from :  +. Cognate with 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) yen, the unit of Japanese currency (symbol: ¥) since 1871, divided into 100 sen.

Pronoun

 * 1) you;

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) full

Etymology
or.

Noun

 * 1)  currency

Etymology
.

Etymology 1
,  from.

🇨🇴

Noun

 * 1) sleeve

Etymology 2
From.

Noun

 * 1) yen

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) county