Fountain Pen In Your Language

[Fountainer]

I think the word "fountain pen" is so awesome. It makes me wonder, what is fountain pen called in other than english languages exactly?

In finnish it's called "täytekynä", which means "filling pen", a pen that has some filling inside. More universal name is "mustekynä"="ink pen", including ballpoints as well. Or a combination is sometimes used: "mustetäytekynä", when trying hard to tell what is it. "Täytekynä" is not very distinctive name. People may think of a mechanical pencil when they hear that word, so if they want to talk about fountain pens, they often rather spend time describing it "the old fashion pen that is filled with liquid bottled ink you know..." It's a bit disappointing to not have a satisfying name for the fine high priced writing instrument, though in many case finnish language is one of the most accurate languages in the world.

So how is it in your native language?

 

[ethernautrix]

In Polish: wieczne pióro. Or pióro. Often translated into English as "feather."

[mirosc]

Two older threads on this topic:

fountain pen 1

fountain pen 2

[ceac]

in Dutch it is 'vulpen' ... fillpen

[Pelikan Vera]

Fuellfederhalter = filling feather holder

german

[hbdk]

Danish: Fyldepen - fillpen

[hungh]

Chinese: 鋼筆，which translates into "steel pen"...

[Tanzanite]

In Swedish: reservoarpenna

[Steven]

In Greek fountain pen = μελανοφόρος. It's Greek to me.

[Jdp2496]

In Romanian: The common word is: stilou (actually meaning fountain pen).

 

Another name for a fountain pen is: toc rezervor (which means "heel reservoir," but is almost never used.)

[RMN]

in Dutch it is 'vulpen' ... fillpen

Sometimes you will also see "vulpenhouder".

houder means something like holder.

Same as in the German Füllfederhalter.

 

 

French is Stilo plume. or short: plume. (meaning feather) Stilo is stylus or pen

(Stilo bille is ballpoint)

 

D.ick

[RMN]

In Greek fountain pen = μελανοφόρος. It's Greek to me.

I think that is melanophoros in western script. Melanos meaning black and phoros bearer.

 

 

D.ick

[VivienR]

In Hungarian: "töltőtoll" in raw translation is 'filler pen'..

[arni]

In Icelandic:

When everyone dipped their pens, it was penni.

Fountain pen is lindarpenni, lind meaning spring or fount.

In the seventies we youngsters usually spoke of blekpenni, meaning ink pen, to, I believe, contrast it with kúlupenni, ballpen.

Today, the young just stare at the thing and don't have a word for it.

[fabri00]

Italian: penna stilografica

[marcelo]

In Portuguese is caneta tinteiro. Ink bottle pen, in raw translation.

 

But the most interesting is nib in Portuguese: pena, which literally means feather. After all, before the fountain pen there was the quill pen.

[Gilberto Castaneda]

In Spanish there are at least two ways:

 

In Mexico: Pluma fuente, which is exactly fountain pen.

Other parts of the Spanish speaking world: estilográfica.

 

Cheers,

 

G

[ateke]

in Turkish it is called "dolmakalem"

[hollydonut]

in bahasa indonesia it is pulpen, this word is originated from vulpen in dutch

[Water Ouzel]

All too often these days in American English: "Wazzat?"