Word.ws English Dictionary

Ijen

Ijen proper noun: a volcano in East Java, Indonesia.

Proper noun

Ijen

  1. A volcano in East Java, Indonesia.
    • Local workers hike up the side of the mountain and down into the crater at the top to harvest its sulfur—a byproduct of the gas that escapes from the volcano’s vents and collects near the shores of an acidic lake at the crater’s center. The chemical is used in industry worldwide, from making...2015 February 25, Kevin McElvaney, “Inside Indonesia's Ijen Volcano”, in The Atlantic

Questions about Ijen

What does Ijen mean?
Ijen means a volcano in East Java, Indonesia.
What part of speech is Ijen?
Ijen is a proper noun.

Words near Ijen in the dictionary

  1. Ijazes
  2. ijbol
  3. IJDB
  4. Ijekavian
  5. Ijekavic
  6. Ijen
  7. Ijeoma
  8. Ijevan
  9. Ijiraq
  10. ijit
  11. ijjit

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ijen (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Ijen.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ijen. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.