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kin

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kinyarwanda.

From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).

Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).

kin (countable and uncountable, plural kins or **kin)

  1. Race; family; breed; kind.
  2. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
  3. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
    • 2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280:
      Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
  4. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

relatives collectively

kin (not comparable)

  1. (Can we verify(+) this sense?) Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
    It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
    • 1914, Zona Gale, Neighborhood Stories, page 155:
      ... and our feeling together had made us forget what-ever there'd been between us to forget about. And I ain't ever in my life felt so kin to folks. I felt kinner than I knew I was. That night, tired as I was, I walked […]
    • 1925, Therese Kayser Lindsey, Blue Norther: Texas Poems, page 53:
      How serenely Earth keeps on her business! […] Yielding powers to man's hand / While he burrows in her sand, / […] How kin is she to man, who sips / Nourishment with boasting lips, / Detached, but inalienably bound /To be suckled […]

Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).

kin (plural kins)

  1. Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”)
    • 1899, Hugo Riemann, Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation:
      Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.
    • 1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository, page 40:
      If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.

Clipping of fictionkin.

kin (third-person singular simple present kins, present participle kinning, simple past and past participle kinned)

  1. (transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.

kin (plural kins or **kin)

  1. (fandom slang) A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
  2. (fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.
    Alternative form: kinnie

kin (plural kins)

  1. Alternative form of k'in

kin

  1. Pronunciation spelling of can.
    • 1959 January 5, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 4:
      [Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'.
      [Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.

kin (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Short for kinesiology.

From Dutch kin, from Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.

kin (plural kinne)

  1. Alternative form of ken

From Persian کین.

kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinlər)

  1. hidden anger, spite, malice, grudge
    Synonym: ədavət

kin

  1. to eat

kin

  1. genitive plural of kino

From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-West Germanic *kinnu, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.

kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)

  1. chin

Guinea-Bissau Creole

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From Portuguese quem.

kin

  1. who

For pronunciation and definitions of kin – see 斤 (“catty, a unit of weight”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 斤).

ki +‎ -n

kin

  1. superessive singular of ki

Ido numbers (edit)

| | 50 | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | - | --------------------------- | | ← 4 | 5 | 6 → | | Cardinal: kin Ordinal: kinesma Adverbial: kinfoye Multiplier: kinopla Fractional: kinima | | |

From French cinq, Spanish cinco, Italian cinque, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.

kin

  1. five (5)

kin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of きん

kin

  1. Alternative form of kyn

Compare Dogrib kǫ̀.

kin

  1. market, store
    Kingóó déyá. ― I am going to the store.
  2. house, cabin, building
  3. town

kin

  1. him

kin (comparative kintir, superlative herî kin)

  1. short

kin

  1. to eat

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كین (kin, “a grudge, concealed desire of revenge, malice”),.[1][2] from Persian كین (kin) or کینه (kine, “hatred, rancor, malevolence”).[3] Doublet of penaltı.

kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinler)

  1. grudge, desire to take revenge
    Synonym: garaz
  1. ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1615
  2. ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1069
  3. ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Borrowed from Middle Low German kinne, kin, from Old Saxon kinni. The inherited Old Frisian form was zin.

kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)

  1. chin

kin

  1. Alternative form of ginn.

kin

  1. Alternative form of ken
    • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:
      Heal, griue, an kin, apaa thee, graacuse Forth,
      Health, wealth, and regard upon thee, gracious Forth,