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Galen

Galen

See also: galen and galèn

English

Proper noun

Galen

  1. An ancient Greek physician.
  2. A male given name, of mostly American usage.

Anagrams


Luxembourgish

Noun

Galen

  1. plural of Gal

galen

galen

See also: Galen and galèn

Norwegian Nynorsk

Adjective

galen (neuter singular gale or galent, definite singular and plural galne, comparative galnare, indefinite superlative galnast, definite superlative galnaste)

  1. crazy, mad, insane
  2. wrong, incorrect

See also

  • gal (Bokmål)

References


Swedish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

galen

  1. past participle of gala.


Etymology 2

From Old Swedish galin, from Old Norse galinn.

Adjective

galen (comparative galnare, superlative galnast)

  1. crazy; lunatic, mad
  2. crazy; out of control
  3. crazy; filled with foolish or unreasoned affection
  4. wrong; not quite correct
Declension
Inflection of galen
Indefinite/attributive Positive Comparative Superlative2
Common singular galen galnare galnast
Neuter singular galet galnare galnast
Plural galna galnare galnast
Definite Positive Comparative Superlative
Masculine singular1 galne galnare galnaste
All galna galnare galnaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in an attributive role.

Related terms

  • gala
  • galenpanna
  • galenskap
  • galen vetenskapsman
  • galning
  • helgalen
  • hoppa i galen tunna