blain

See also: Blain and Bláin

English

Etymology

From Middle English blein, from Old English bleġen, bleġene, from Proto-Germanic *blajinǭ, *blajjinǭ, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to swell up”). Cognate with West Frisian blein (“blain”), Dutch blein, blegn (“blain”), Middle Low German bleine (“blain”). Related also to dialectal Norwegian bleime (“blister”), Old Swedish blēma (“blister”), French bleime (“an inflammation of a horse's hoof”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bleɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪn

Noun

blain (plural blains)

1. A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch.

Derived terms

• chilblain

Translations

skin swelling or sore

Bulgarian: пришка (priška) Ottoman Turkish: قبارجق (kabarcık) Scots: blain

Anagrams

• Albin, Labin, Nabil, binal

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈblin/, /ˈblɛn/
• (Southern Scots) IPA^(key): /ˈbleɪn/

Noun

blain (plural blains)

1. A scar or weal; a blemish.
2. A hole, a vacancy, an omission.

Derived terms

• blainy