Fountain Pen In Your Language

[Pelikan Vera]

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

Love this.....

[fountainpagan]

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.

 

Excuse me but Caneta Tinteiro is Brazilian Portuguese.

 

In Portuguese, a fountain pen is called: Caneta de tinta permanente = pen of permanent ink

 

or

 

Caneta de aparo = Nib pen

 

Aparo = Nib

 

Pena, like Marcelo said is used to designate a dip pen or quill, not the nib of a fountain pen. In portuguese, of course.

Edited January 29, 2014 by fountainpagan

[Pterodactylus]

In Austria we say "Füllfeder" means filling feather or sometimes only "Feder" = feather (we also speak German, but have quite a lot of different words for things as the Germans or the Swiss, even within Austria some words can be different depending on the area).

The Germans say "Füllfederhalter" (filling feather holder) or "Füller" (filler).

[marcelo]

 

Excuse me but Caneta Tinteiro is Brazilian Portuguese.

 

In Portuguese, a fountain pen is called: Caneta de tinta permanente = pen of permanent ink

 

or

 

Caneta de aparo = Nib pen

 

Aparo = Nib

 

Pena, like Marcelo said is used to designate a dip pen or quill, not the nib of a fountain pen. In portuguese, of course.

Everything's right.

Except for pena (feather), which really is used in Brazilian Portuguese to designate the nib of a fountain pen. What I said is that it makes sense, since dip/quill pens were made of feathers.

[sebas0902]

In Spanish estilográfica, pluma estilográfica or simply pluma, which means feather as well

[tomkeb]

In Czech language it is "plnicí pero" (filling pen/feather).

 

The shorter variant "pero" can both reference a fountain pen; or any writing instrument (except for pencil) when one wants to be very polite (mainly older people use the term in this sense), or when the instrument looks respectable. For other writing utensils there is the term "propiska" (something that "writes through", denoting the pressure needed for copying using carbon paper; ballpoint pen) or "tužka" (which is primarily a pencil, but can mean anything that writes except for a fountain pen).

Edited January 29, 2014 by tomkeb

[perth]

In Thai, it's ปากกาหมึกซึม, or "seeping ink pen".

[Amyj]

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

 

Stylo, not stilo. Unless Québec has a different spelling for it than France.

 

Unfortunately, I don't know either of the names in the other two languages I speak.

[JPR75]

 

Stylo, not stilo. Unless Québec has a different spelling for it than France.

 

 

No, it's also stylo plume in France (sometime stylo-plume).

[Seele]

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

 

hungh,

 

Like a previous correspondent in one of the older threads quoted, it is not exactly the case.

 

The Chinese language works on the principle that smaller units are strung together to make any general term more specific. Here the basis is "bi", which refers to any writing instrument, and even long instruments. Here we use the word "pen" to replace it.

 

lead - pen = pencil

goose - feather - pen = quill

but: iron - pen = crowbar.

 

Since the nibbed pen is an import, this system can often be pushed a bit too far:

 

dip - water - pen = dip pen

 

Here "water" refers to an aqueous fluid, in this case ink.

 

And with the advent of the fountain pen there are several ways to tackle it:

 

ink - water - pen (here, "ink - water" is another example of making the base word "water" specific.)

 

self - arrive - water - pen ("self - arrive - water" is yet another example which means "tap water". This also means why sometimes, fountain pens are referred to as "tap water pens" by some.)

 

steel - pen

 

Nowadays this is almost a generic term for fountain pen but in a more specific context it means a fountain pen with untipped steel nib. If that be the case there would be:

 

gold - pen

 

iridium - gold - pen (here "gold" refers to "metal", so it is effectively "iridium - metal", or "iridium")

 

The mechanics of languages can be fascinating, but pretty much all are ultimately frustrating

[Mineralogy]

In Chinese it is 钢笔, which literally means "steel pen". In Norwegian it is "fyllepen", which means something like "fill pen" or a pen that you fill.

French isn't my language, but it is my second language, and fountain pen in français is "stylo plume", which translates to "feather/quill pen" or "nib pen".

[Jiachen Zhang]

Besides "钢笔“（simplified) and "鋼筆”（traditional）,Chinese also called it “自来水笔”(especially in the past) ,which means that ink can flow automaticlly,and you can write without dipping.

[legume]

In Korean it's called 만년필, or the "ten thousand year pen."

[Montblanc owner and lover]

in french a fountain pen is called a "stylo" or more completely a "stylo plume" to make opposition to a ball point ("stylo bille" but we generally say "bic" for BP) but stylo is the most used

[Davis19942003]

Japanese: 万年筆

[RMN]

Japanese: 万年筆

Last part seems the same sign as in Chinese. Interesting.

interesting topic, too.

 

D.ick

[Brotzmann]

Last part seems the same sign as in Chinese. Interesting.

interesting topic, too.

 

D.ick

Japanese uses Kanji which is adopted from Chinese writing. Edited January 30, 2014 by Brotzmann

[rtruslow]

In Southern English it is "writing stick", meaning any instrument used for writing.

[Larry Barrieau]

Fountain Pen in Your Language

 

Well, not just in my language. I bought a fountain pen that can write in any language!

[Fountainer]

Thanks for answers. Time for some replies.

Two older threads on this topic:

fountain pen 1

fountain pen 2

I did my homework but still can't find those threads using keyword "language".

Somebody from India behind the first link said this: "the word for fountain pen is "Kolom" which means a writing instrument that uses ink. So, if you used a goose quill, and used liquid ink, that too would be a "kolom". However, all nice fountain pens are called "Parker"!!! "

 

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

That's funny! There's also a city in Finland where bus is called "nowit", because everybody says "now it comes" when the bus arrives.

Those Asian languages are also impressive. Maybe i start building my own written language making characters that are actually small drawings. That could work in the daily to do-list when i only need a clue what was in my mind for the day.