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See also: Appendix:Variations of "kin"

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Kinyarwanda or abbreviation of Rwanda-Rundi Ikinyarwanda.

Symbol

kin

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

See also

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: kĭn, IPA(key): /kɪn/, [k̟ʰɪn]
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

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”).

Noun

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.
Derived terms
Translations
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Further reading

Adjective

kin (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Related by blood or marriage, akin. (It is more common to form sentences using the noun instead.)
    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 […]
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:kin.
Translations

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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.

Etymology 3

Clipping of fictionkin.

Verb

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.

Noun

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

Etymology 4

Noun

kin (plural kins)

  1. Alternative form of k'in.

Etymology 5

Verb

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.

Etymology 6

Noun

kin (uncountable)

  1. (colloquial) Clipping of kinesiology.

Anagrams

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Afrikaans

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

kin (plural kinne)

  1. alternative form of ken

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Persian کین.

Pronunciation

Noun

kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinlər)

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

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
More information nominative, singular ...

Derived terms

  • kinli

Further reading

  • “kin” in Obastan.com.
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Caolan

Verb

kin

  1. to eat

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

kin

  1. genitive plural of kino

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)

  1. chin

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: kin
  • Negerhollands: kin
  • → Papiamentu: kenchi, kinnetje, kintsje (from the diminutive)
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Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese quem.

Pronoun

kin

  1. who

Hokkien

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

Hungarian

Etymology

ki +‎ -n

Pronunciation

Pronoun

kin

  1. superessive singular of ki

See also

More information case, suffix ...

1Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be construed likewise.
Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All Hungarian pronouns / edit this template

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Ido

Ido numbers (edit)
50
 ←  4 5 6  → 
    Cardinal: kin
    Ordinal: kinesma
    Adverbial: kinfoye
    Multiplier: kinopla
    Fractional: kinima

Etymology

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

Numeral

kin

  1. five (5)

Japanese

Romanization

kin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of きん

Middle English

Noun

kin

  1. alternative form of kyn

Navajo

Etymology

Compare Dogrib kǫ̀.

Pronunciation

Noun

kin

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

Inflection

More information singular, duoplural ...

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kin

  1. him

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

kin (comparative kintir, superlative herî kin)

  1. short

Synonyms

Nupe

Pronunciation

Nǀuu

Pronunciation

Pronoun

kin

  1. (simple) third person plural personal pronoun; they, them
    Kin ke dyaqn
    They walk
More information Nǀuu personal pronouns, Western dialect ...

Determiner

kin

  1. their

Synonymsa

References

  • Shah, Sheena, and Matthias Brenzinger. Ouma Geelmeid ke kx’u ǁxaǁxa Nǀuu. Cape Town: CALDi, University of Cape Town. 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17432.
  • Sands, Bonny & Jones, Kerry & Esau, Katrina & Collins, Chris & Witzlack-Makarevich, Alena & Job, Sylvanus & Miller, Amanda & Steyn, Betta & Zaanen, Menno & Namaseb, Levi & Berg, Dietloff & Mantzel, Dotty & Damarah, Willem & Snyman, Claudia & Wyk, David & Brugman, Johanna & Exter, Mats & Vaalbooi, Antjie & Westhuizen, Mietjie. (2022). Nǀuuki Namagowab Afrikaans English ǂXoakiǂxanisi/Mîdi di ǂKhanis/Woordeboek/Dictionary

Sapa

Verb

kin

  1. to eat

Turkish

West Frisian

Yagara

Yola

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