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Definitions and meaning of kin

kin

Translingual

Symbol

kin

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

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭn, IPA^(key): /kɪn/
• 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.
   • c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers

     You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.
3. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
4. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• kith
• clan

Further reading

• “kin”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Kin in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Adjective

kin (not comparable)

1. 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.

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”)

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.

Etymology 6

Noun

kin (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Short for kinesiology.

Anagrams

• -nik, Nik, ink

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

Derived terms

• kinli

Further reading

• “kin” in Obastan.com.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪn]
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

kin

1. genitive plural of kino

Anagrams

• nik

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

• IPA^(key): /kɪn/
• Hyphenation: kin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)

1. chin

Derived terms

• kinlijn
• onderkin

Descendants

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

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Pronoun

kin

1. who

Hokkien

Hungarian

Etymology

ki +‎ -n

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkin]

Pronoun

kin

1. superessive singular of ki

Ido

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

• IPA^(key): [kxʲɪ̀n]

Noun

kin

1. market, store

   Kingóó déyá. ― I am going to the store.

2. house, cabin, building
3. town

Inflection

Synonyms

• (town): kin shijaaʼ, kin łání, kintah

Derived terms

• kįįh (“into the town”)
• kinsááʼ (“ruin”)

See also

• hooghan

Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kin

1. him

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

kin (comparative kintir, superlative herî kin)

1. short

Synonyms

• kurt
• qut
• quse

Nupe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kí.ŋ̀/

Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كین (kin, “a grudge, concealed desire of revenge, malice”),. from Persian كین (kin) or کینه (kine, “hatred, rancour, malevolence”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈcin/, (definite accusative) /ciːˈni/
• Hyphenation: kin

Noun

kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinler)

1. grudge, desire to take revenge

   Synonym: garaz

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• “kin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kin¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2675

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɪn/

Noun

kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)

1. chin

Derived terms

• ûnderkin

Further reading

• “kin”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yagara

Noun

kin

1. Alternative form of ginn.

References

• State Library of Queensland, 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES ‘WORD OF THE WEEK’: WEEK EIGHTEEN., 13 May 2019.

Yola

Noun

kin

1. Alternative form of ken

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 49

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