sheen

Meanings

1. Beautiful, good-looking, attractive, fair; bright, radiant; shiny.
2. Clear, pure, clean; noble, illustrious; (by extension) innocent, chaste.

1. Splendor; radiance; shininess.
2. A thin layer of a substance (such as oil) spread on a solid or liquid surface.

1. To shine; to glisten.

1. The letter ش in the Arabic script.

1. An area of Greater London, officially East Sheen.
2. A village and civil parish in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England, on the border with Derbyshire (OS grid ref SK1161).
3. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English shene, schene, from Old English sċīene (“beautiful, fair, bright, brilliant, light”), from Proto-West Germanic *skaunī, from Proto-Germanic *skauniz (“beautiful”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewh₁-. Cognate with Scots schene, scheine (“beautiful, fair, attractive”), Saterland Frisian skeen (“clean, pure”), West Frisian skjin (“nice, clean”), Dutch schoon (“clean, beautiful, fair”), German schön (“beautiful”), Danish skøn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Bokmål skjønn (“beautiful”), Norwegian Nynorsk skjønn (“beautiful”), Swedish skön (“beautiful, fine”). Compare also the loanword Finnish kaunis (“beautiful”). See also English show.