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Definitions and meaning of sin

sin

Translingual

Symbol

sin

(mathematics) The trigonometric function sine.
(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Sinhala.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sinne, synne, sunne, zen, from Old English synn (“sin”), from Proto-West Germanic *sunnju, from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, excuse”) and *sundī, *sundijō (“sin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-ih₂, from *h₁sónts ("being, true", implying a verdict of "truly guilty" against an accusation or charge), from *h₁es- (“to be”); compare Old English sōþ ("true"; see sooth). Doublet of suttee.

Alternative forms

sinne (obsolete)
synne (obsolete)

Pronunciation

enPR: sĭn, IPA^(key): /sɪn/
Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

sin (countable and uncountable, plural sins)

(theology) A violation of divine will or religious law.
Sinfulness, depravity, iniquity.
A misdeed or wrong.
A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
A flaw or mistake.
(sports) sin bin

Synonyms

offence
adharma (in Hinduism)
ithm (in Islam)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

sin (third-person singular simple present sins, present participle sinning, simple past and past participle sinned)

(intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Modification of shin.

Alternative forms

seen, sīn

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɪn/, /siːn/

Noun

sin (plural sins)

A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ
A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س

Etymology 3

Noun

sin (plural sins)

Alternative form of sinh (“tube skirt”).

Anagrams

INS, Ins, Ins., NIS, NSI, Niš, in's, ins, ins., nis

Afar

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsin/ [ˈsɪn]
Hyphenation: sin

Pronoun

sín (predicative síini)

ye, you

Determiner

sín

your (second person plural)

References

E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985) “sin”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[4], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Afrikaans

Etymology 1

From Dutch zin, from Middle Dutch sin, from Old Dutch sin, from Proto-West Germanic *sinn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sən/

Noun

sin (plural sinne, diminutive sinnetjie)

meaning, sense
sentence
sense (means of perceiving reality)
sense, comprehension
desire

Derived terms

sinvol

Etymology 2

Particle

sin

misspelling of s'n

Aromanian

Alternative forms

sinu

Etymology

From Latin sinus. Compare Romanian sân, Spanish seno.

Noun

sin n (plural sinj)

breast

Asturian

Preposition

sin

alternative form of ensin

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِين (sīn).

Noun

sin (definite accusative sini, plural sinlər)

the Arabic letter س

Declension

Breton

Etymology

From Latin signum.

Noun

sin m

sign

Cebuano

Etymology

From Spanish zinc, from German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko (“prong, tine”), allied to zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₃dónts (“tooth, projection”).

Noun

sin

zinc
galvanized iron sheet

Cornish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *suɨɣn, from Latin signum. Cognate with Welsh swyn.

Noun

sin m (plural sinyow or sinys)

sign
Synonyms: arwodh, tokyn
mark
Synonyms: merk, nos, stampa
signal
Synonyms: arwodh, sinell
symptom
Synonym: arwodh

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English sine.

Noun

sin m (plural sinyow)

(mathematics) sine

Derived terms

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse sínn.

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -in

Pronoun

sin c (neuter sit, plural sine)

(reflexive possessive) third-person sg pronoun, meaning his/her/its (own)
Han læste sin bog ― He read his (own) book

Compare: Han læste hans bog ― He read his (somebody else's) book

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Pronoun

sin

accusative of si

Fon

Etymology

Cognates include Gun sìn, Saxwe Gbe ɛsìn, Adja eshi, Ewe esti

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Noun

sìn

water

References

Claire Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Brousseau, A Grammar of Fongbe (2002, →ISBN

Franco-Provençal

Alternative forms

sio, sino

Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *seum. Doublet of son (possessive determiner).

Pronoun

sin (feminine singular sina, masculine plural sins, feminine plural sines) (ORB, broad)

his, her, its (third-person singular possessor)

Gun

Etymology 1

Cognates include Fon sìn, Saxwe Gbe ɛsìn, Adja eshi, Ewe esti. Possibly cognate with Nkonya ntsu.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Noun

sìn (plural sìn lɛ́ or sìn lẹ́)

water
Synonym: òsìn

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Particle

sín

comes after a noun to indicate that this noun possesses that which follows, much like English 's
Gbẹ̀tọ́ sín àfọ̀ / Gbɛ̀tɔ́ sín àfɔ̀ ― The human's foot

References

Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages (2006, →ISBN)

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic سِين (sīn).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sín/
- (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [sɪ́ŋ]

Noun

sin f

sin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Hokkien

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

sinn (Altenhofen spelling)

Etymology

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn (“to be”) (with some parts from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) and *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h₁es- (“to be, exist”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsin/
Rhymes: -in
Syllabification: sin

Verb

sin

to be
(auxiliary) forms the perfect tense of most intransitive verbs

Inflection

Derived terms

do sin

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɪːn/
Rhymes: -ɪːn

Noun

sin f (genitive singular sinar, nominative plural sinar)

sinew, tendon

Declension

Irish

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Irish sin, from Old Irish sin.

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /ʃɪnʲ/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ʃɨ̞nʲ/

Determiner

sin

(used with the definite article) that
an buachaill sin ― that boy

Pronoun

sin

that

Derived terms

ó shin

Mutation

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsin/
Rhymes: -in
Hyphenation: sìn

Preposition

sin

apocopic form of sino

Itsekiri

Etymology 1

Cognates include Ìjẹ̀bú Yoruba sẹ́n

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ́/

Verb

sín

to be long

Etymology 2

Cognates include Yoruba sín, Olukumi ṣín, Owé Yoruba hín, Ìjẹ̀bú Yoruba sẹ́n, Ifè sɛ̃́

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ́/

Verb

sín

to sneeze

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese 身 (MC syin).

Noun

sin

body

Kabyle

Etymology

From Proto-Berber.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sin/

Numeral

sin m (feminine snat)

References

Bellahsene, Linda, Hameg, Nadia (2009) “Kabyle numeral system”, in Université Paris 4, CNRS, editor, Numeral Systems of the World's Languages‎^[6], Paris, France

Kankanaey

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsin/ [ˈsi̞n]
(parts of Bauko, Sabangan and Tadian) IPA^(key): /ˈhin/ [ˈhi̞n]
Rhymes: -in
Syllabification: sin

Article

sin

oblique argument, specifically a common nominal definite marker

References

Janet L. Allen (2014) Kankanaey: A Role and Reference Grammar Analysis‎^[7] (overall work in English), →ISBN, page 128

Ladino

Etymology

From Old Spanish sin, from Latin sine.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sin/

Preposition

sin (Hebrew spelling סין)

without

Antonyms

Latin

Etymology

From sī + nē.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsiːn]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsin]

Conjunction

sīn

if however, if on the contrary, but if
sin aliter/minus/secus ― otherwise, if not

References

sin in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2025), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication

Livonian

Pronoun

sin

genitive singular of sinā

Menien

Noun

sin

water

References

Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens, page 155

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sin, from Proto-West Germanic *sinn.

Noun

sin m or f

direction
attention
sense, intellect, reason
feeling, emotion
sense, perception
meaning

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Dutch: zin
- Afrikaans: sin
- Negerhollands: sin
Limburgish: zin

Middle English

Etymology 1

Conjunction

sin

alternative form of sithen

Etymology 2

Noun

sin

alternative form of synne

Middle High German

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈs̠iːn/

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old High German sīn, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *wesaną, derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ésti. Cognate with Middle Low German sīn.

Alternative forms

wësen

Verb

sīn or wësen (irregular, third-person singular present ist, past tense was, past participle gewësen, past subjunctive wære, auxiliary sīn)

to be, become

Conjugation

Descendants

German: sein

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old High German sīn.

Determiner

sīn

his
its
one's

Descendants

German: sein

References

Benecke, Georg Friedrich, Müller, Wilhelm, Zarncke, Friedrich (1863) “sin”, in Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch: mit Benutzung des Nachlasses von Benecke, Stuttgart: S. Hirzel

Middle Irish

Alternative forms

sein

Etymology

From Old Irish sin.

Determiner

sin

(used with the definite article) that

Pronoun

sin

that

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

(originally) IPA^(key): /siːn/

Etymology 1

From Old Saxon sīn.

Pronoun

sîn

(personal pronoun, third person, in the singular, masculine, genitive) of his
(personal pronoun, third person, in the singular, neuter, genitive) of it
(possessive, third person, in the singular, masculine) his
(possessive, third person, neuter, masculine) its

Declension

Personal pronoun:

Possessive pronoun:

Alternative forms

sîner (for the genitive of the personal pronoun)

Etymology 2

From Old Saxon sīn.

Alternative forms

wēsen

Verb

sîn

to be

Usage notes

Wēsen is a verb with a suppletive conjugation based on multiple Proto-Germanic stems. For many verb forms, authors freely chose between forms based on the stems wēs- and sî-, without semantic impact. This is also true for modern Low German and Dutch. For the forms based on the sî- stem, see the respective entry at wēsen.

Descendants

German Low German:
Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch: sin (past participle: west, also wesen)

Westphalian:
Münsterländisch: syn (past participle: weßt), sien (past participle: west)

Paderbornisch: seyn, syn (past participle: wiäsen)

Miskito

Adverb

sin

also, too

Navajo

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *xʸən (“shaman's power, medicine, song”). Related to -YĮĮD (“to be holy”), from Proto-Athabaskan *ɣʸən (“to act as a shaman, to be endowed with supernatural powers”).

Compare Ahtna sen (“spiritual power, medicine”), Koyukon sən (“shaman's spirit”), Gwich'in shan (“shamanism, magic”), Tlingit shí, shī, shi(n) (“sing, song”), Eyak tsį, Dena'ina shen, Galice šan (“song”), Lipan shį̀.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɪ̀n/

Noun

sin (possessed form biyiin)

song

Inflection

North Frisian

Determiner

sin

(Sylt) his (third-person singular masculine possessive determiner)
(Sylt) its (third-person singular neuterpossessive determiner)
(Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of san (“his, its”, Föhr-Amrum also “her”)

Pronoun

sin (plural (Sylt) sinen)

(Sylt) his (third-person singular masculine possessive pronoun)
(Sylt) its (third-person singular neuterpossessive pronoun)
(Föhr-Amrum) feminine/neuter of san (“his, hers, its”)
(Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of san (“his, its”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Pronoun

sin

accusative/genitive of sii

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse sinn.

Pronunciation

Determiner

sin m (feminine si, neuter sitt, plural sine)

(reflexive pronoun) her / his / its / their
indicating possession; 's, of

References

“sin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse sinn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɪnː/
Homophone: sinn

Determiner

sin (masculine sin, feminine si, neuter sitt, plural sine)

(reflexive pronoun) her/his/its/their
indicating possession; 's, of

References

“sin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sīn.

Determiner

sīn

his, its, hers

Inflection

Descendants

Middle Dutch: sijn
- Dutch: zijn
- Limburgish: zeen

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sīn (“his, her, its, their”, genitive reflexive).

Cognate with Old Frisian sīn (“his, its”), Old Saxon sīn (“his”) (Middle Low German sin), Dutch zijn, Old High German sīn (“his”) (German sein), Old Norse sínn (“one's own”), Old English sē (“that, that one, he”). More at the.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siːn/

Pronoun

sīn

(rare, chiefly dialectal, reflexive possessive pronoun) his; her; its; their
- him ġewāt Hrōþgār tō hofe sīnum ― For him Hrothgar went to his courtyard
- þæt wīf tredeð mid sīnum fōtum ― The woman walks with her feet
- þeċ heriað Israhēla, herran sīnne ― Israel plunders you, their lord
- Bær sēo brimwylf hringa þengel tō hofe sīnum ― The sea-wolf carried the Prince of Rings to her lair

Usage notes

Usually occurs in non-West Saxon dialects; rarely occurs in West Saxon prose, where it was replaced early on by the genitive forms: his, hire, and heora.

Declension

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sīn (“his, her, its, their”, genitive reflexive).

Cognate with Old English sīn (“his, her, its, their”), Old Saxon sīn (“his”) (Middle Low German sin), Dutch zijn, Old High German sīn (“his”) (German sein), Old Norse sínn (“one's own”), Old English sē (“that, that one, he”).

Determiner

sīn

Declension

Descendants

Saterland Frisian: sin
West Frisian: syn

Pronoun

sīn

genitive of hī: his
genitive of hit: its

Declension

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *sinn.

Noun

sin m

sense
mind
spirit
thought
intention

Declension

Synonyms

sens

Descendants

Middle High German: sin
- German: Sinn
- Luxembourgish: Sënn
- Yiddish: זין (zin)

References

Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage) 2014

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *sindos (compare Welsh hyn), from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”) or *só (“that”); strong doublet of in (“the”).

Determiner

sin

that, those (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article)
Synonym: tall
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^c23
- c. 845, St Gall Glosses on Priscian, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1975, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. II, pp. 49–224, Sg. 26^b7

Derived terms

ísin

Descendants

Irish: sin
Scottish Gaelic: sin
Manx: shen

Pronoun

sin

that (as a direct object, used together with a clitic pronoun)
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14^d26

Derived terms

insin

Old Norse

Alternative forms

sina

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *senawō.

Noun

sin f (genitive sinar)

cord, tendon, sinew; nerve

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *sīn.

Determiner

sīn m or n

(dialectal, reflexive possessive pronoun) his, its
- 9th c. Heliand, verse 178:
- verse 3832:

Declension

Descendants

Low German: sien

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be, exist”) (with some parts from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)). Cognate with Old Dutch sīn (“to be”), Old English sēon (“to be”), Old High German sīn. More at sooth.

Verb

sīn (irregular)

to be (more at wesan)

Conjugation

Descendants

Low German: sön, sennen

Old Spanish

Etymology

From Latin sine.

Preposition

sin

without

Antonyms

Descendants

Ladino: sin
Spanish: sin

Old Swedish

Etymology

Old Norse sínn, sinn from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

Determiner

sin

(Reflexive possessive third person determiner.) his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own)

Picard

Pronoun

sin m

his, hers or its

Romanian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic сꙑнъ (synŭ), from Proto-Slavic *synъ (“son”).

Noun

sin m (uncountable)

(dated, regional) son of (in patronymics)

Declension

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sīn, from Proto-West Germanic *sīn. Cognates include West Frisian syn and German sein.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɪn/

Determiner

sin (feminine sien, neuter sien, plural sien, predicative sinnen)

References

Marron C. Fort (2015) “sin”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

(Uist) sineach

Etymology

From Middle Irish [Term?], from Old Irish sin. Cognates include Irish sin and Manx shen.

Pronunciation

(Lewis, much of Skye, Wester Ross) IPA^(key): /ʃĩn/
(Harris, North Uist) IPA^(key): /ʃɛ̃n/ (as if spelled sean)
(South Uist, Barra, Islay) IPA^(key): /ʃĩɲ/
(Sleat) IPA^(key): /ʃʏ̃n/

Pronoun

sin

that
Dè tha sin? ― What is that?

Usage notes

With the definite article, used as a determiner:
an gille sin ― that boy (literally, “the boy that”)

Derived terms

References

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *synъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀnus, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sîːn/

Noun

sȋn m (Cyrillic spelling си̑н)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Hebrew ש.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sîn/

Noun

sȉn m (Cyrillic spelling си̏н)

sin (letter of various Semitic abjads)

Declension

Slovene

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *synъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀnus, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /síːn/

Noun

sȋn m anim

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish sin, from Latin sine. Cognate with English sans, French sans, Italian senza, and Portuguese sem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsin/ [ˈsĩn]
Rhymes: -in
Syllabification: sin

Preposition

sin

without
Antonym: con

Derived terms

Swedish

Alternative forms

ſin (obsolete typography)

Etymology 1

Nominalisation of sina (“run dry”).

Noun

sin ?

Dryness, the state of having run dry.

Usage notes

Most commonly used when referring to either milk or funds.

Etymology 2

From Old Swedish sīn, from Old Norse sínn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz. Cognate with Danish sin, Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (seins), German sein, Dutch zijn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siːn/

Pronoun

sin c (neuter sitt, plural sina)

his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own). (Reflexive possessive third person pronoun)
Compare:

Usage notes

The inflection of the word sin is determined by the gender and number of the object: sin for common singular, sitt for neuter singular, and sina for plural, just like an adjective.

Declension

References

sin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
sin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
sin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tatar

Pronoun

sin

you (singular), thou

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *sï(y)n (“monument, tomb”).

Noun

sin (definite accusative sini, plural sinler)

(dated) grave, burial place

Inflection

References

Etymology 2

From Arabic سِين (sīn).

Noun

sin

Letter of the Arabic alphabet: س

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سِين (sīn).

Noun

sin (plural sinlar)

the Arabic letter س

Declension

Vietnamese

Etymology

From translingual sin, from English sine, from Latin sinus.

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sin˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂin˧˧] ~ [sin˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂɨn˧˧] ~ [sɨn˧˧]

Noun

sin

(trigonometry) sine

Welsh

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /siːn/
Rhymes: -iːn

Etymology 1

From English scene, from Middle French scene, from Latin scaena, scēna, from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ, “scene, stage”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃ih₂, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱeh₃- (“darkness, shadow”). Doublet of cysgod (“shade, shadow”).

Noun

sin f (plural sinau, not mutable)

scene (social environment)
y sin bop Gymraeg ― the Welsh-language pop scene

Etymology 2

From English sine, from Latin sinus (“curve, bend; bosom”), a translation of Arabic جَيْب (jayb, “bosom”), from Sanskrit ज्या (jyā, “sine, chord, bowstring”) through Sanskrit जीव (jīva, “sine, chord, life, existence”). Doublet of sinws (“sinus”).

Noun

sin m (plural sinau, not mutable)

(trigonometry, differential geometry) sine

Related terms

trigonometreg (“trigonometry”)
cosin (“cosine”)
tangiad (“tangent”)

Etymology 3

From Middle English sine, from Old French signe, from Latin signum, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *sek- (“to cut”) or *sekʷ- (“to follow”); Doublet of sygn (“astrological sign”).

Alternative forms

sein

Noun

sin m (plural sinau, not mutable)

(obsolete) sign
Synonym: arwydd
(obsolete) symbol
Synonym: symbol
(obsolete) emblem
Synonym: arwyddlun

References

R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “sin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sinn, from Proto-West Germanic *sinn.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sɪn/

Noun

sin c (plural sinnen, diminutive sintsje)

sentence (syntactic unit containing a subject and a predicate)
sense (means of experiencing the external world)
meaning, sense, significance

Noun

sin n (plural sinnen, diminutive sintsje)

mood
opinion, view

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Verb

sìn

(transitive) to worship a deity; to revere
(transitive) to serve

Usage notes

sin before a direct object

Derived terms

ẹ̀sìn (“religion”)
ìsìn (“religious worship”)

Related terms

bọ (“to worship; to sacrifice to a divinity”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Verb

sìn

(transitive) to domesticate an animal or plant

Usage notes

sin before a direct object

Derived terms

ọ̀sìn (“domestication”)

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Verb

sìn

(transitive) to give a girl away in marriage

Usage notes

sin before a direct object

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Verb

sìn

(transitive) to accompany or escort someone; to keep company of someone; to guide

Usage notes

sin before a direct object

Derived terms

ìsìn

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Verb

sìn

(transitive) to serve, to work for someone

Usage notes

sin before a direct object

Derived terms

ìsìn (“servitude”)

Etymology 6

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̀/

Verb

sìn

(transitive) to demand something from someone to recover it

Usage notes

sin before a direct object

Derived terms

ìsìn

Etymology 7

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̄/

Verb

sin

(transitive) to bury in soil

Derived terms

sìnkú (“to bury the dead”)
ìsin (“burial”)

Etymology 8

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ̄/

Verb

sin

(transitive) to lie hidden, to remain secret
ọ̀rọ̀ náà sin ― the matter remains secret

Etymology 9

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ́/

Verb

sín

(transitive, usually with gbẹ́rẹ́) to incise the body (usually in the process of traditional rituals)
Synonym: síngbẹ́rẹ́

Derived terms

ìsíngbẹ́rẹ́ (“scarification”)

Etymology 10

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ́/

Verb

sín

(intransitive) to sneeze

Derived terms

ìsín (“the act of sneezing”)

Etymology 11

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ́/

Verb

sín

(intransitive) to string or piece things together
Synonym: sò

Derived terms

ìsín

Etymology 12

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sĩ́/

Verb

sín

(intransitive) to crack a nut (to reach the inner seed or kernel)

Derived terms

ìsín
sínkùrọ́

Zhuang

Etymology

From Chinese 辛 (MC sin).

Pronunciation

(Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /θin˨˦/
Tone numbers: sin¹
Hyphenation: sin

Noun

sin (Sawndip form 辛, 1957–1982 spelling sin)

the eighth of the ten heavenly stems

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sin

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English

Etymology 1

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Noun

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Verb

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Etymology 2

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Noun

Etymology 3

Noun

Anagrams

Afar

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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Afrikaans

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Noun

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Etymology 2

Particle

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

Noun

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Asturian

Preposition

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Noun

Declension

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Breton

Etymology

Noun

Cebuano

Etymology

Noun

Cornish

Etymology 1

Noun

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Etymology 2

Noun

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Danish

Etymology

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Pronoun

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Esperanto

Pronunciation

Pronoun

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Fon

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