kin

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See also: Kin, kın, kín, kīn, -kin, kin-, k'in, and -kin-

Translingual

Symbol

kin

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

English

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English kin, kyn, ken, kun, 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”), 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
See also
Further reading

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”)
    • 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 empathize or emotionally relate to a fictional character.

Noun

kin (plural kins)

  1. (fandom slang) A fictional character who one deeply relates to.
  2. (fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who relates deeply to 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, Walt Kelly, Pogo, January 5 comic strip (→ISBN, p. 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) Short for kinesiology.

Anagrams

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

    Declension of kin
singular plural
nominative kin
 kinlər
definite accusative kini
 kinləri
dative kinə
 kinlərə
locative kində
 kinlərdə
ablative kindən
 kinlərdən
definite genitive kinin
 kinlərin
    Possessive forms of kin
nominative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) kinim kinlərim
sənin (“your”) kinin kinlərin
onun (“his/her/its”) kini kinləri
bizim (“our”) kinimiz kinlərimiz
sizin (“your”) kininiz kinləriniz
onların (“their”) kini or kinləri kinləri
accusative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) kinimi kinlərimi
sənin (“your”) kinini kinlərini
onun (“his/her/its”) kinini kinlərini
bizim (“our”) kinimizi kinlərimizi
sizin (“your”) kininizi kinlərinizi
onların (“their”) kinini or kinlərini kinlərini
dative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) kinimə kinlərimə
sənin (“your”) kininə kinlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”) kininə kinlərinə
bizim (“our”) kinimizə kinlərimizə
sizin (“your”) kininizə kinlərinizə
onların (“their”) kininə or kinlərinə kinlərinə
locative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) kinimdə kinlərimdə
sənin (“your”) kinində kinlərində
onun (“his/her/its”) kinində kinlərində
bizim (“our”) kinimizdə kinlərimizdə
sizin (“your”) kininizdə kinlərinizdə
onların (“their”) kinində or kinlərində kinlərində
ablative
singular plural
mənim (“my”) kinimdən kinlərimdən
sənin (“your”) kinindən kinlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”) kinindən kinlərindən
bizim (“our”) kinimizdən kinlərimizdən
sizin (“your”) kininizdən kinlərinizdən
onların (“their”) kinindən or kinlərindən kinlərindən
genitive
singular plural
mənim (“my”) kinimin kinlərimin
sənin (“your”) kininin kinlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”) kininin kinlərinin
bizim (“our”) kinimizin kinlərimizin
sizin (“your”) kininizin kinlərinizin
onların (“their”) kininin or kinlərinin kinlərinin

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “kin” in Obastan.com.

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)

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Pronoun

kin

  1. who

Hungarian

Pronominal adverbs from case suffixes (cf. postpositions)
ed suffix who? what? this that he/she
(it)*
case v. pr. c.
nom. – ki mi ez az ő* / -∅
az / -∅		 – –
acc. -t / -ot /
-at / -et / -öt		 kit mit ezt azt őt* / -∅
azt / -∅		 – c1
c2
dat. -nak / -nek kinek minek ennek annak neki neki- c
ins. -val / -vel kivel mivel ezzel/
evvel		 azzal/
avval		 vele c
c-f. -ért kiért miért ezért azért érte – c
tra. -vá / -vé kivé mivé ezzé azzá – – c
ter. -ig – meddig eddig addig – – c
e-f. -ként (kiként) (miként) ekként akként – – c
e-m. -ul / -ül – – – – – – c
ine. -ban / -ben kiben miben ebben abban benne – c
sup. -n/-on/-en/-ön kin min ezen azon rajta (rajta-) c
ade. -nál / -nél kinél minél ennél annál nála – c
ill. -ba / -be kibe mibe ebbe abba bele bele- c
sub. -ra / -re kire mire erre arra rá rá- c
all. -hoz/-hez/-höz kihez mihez ehhez ahhoz hozzá hozzá- c
el. -ból / -ből kiből miből ebből abból belőle – c
del. -ról / -ről kiről miről erről arról róla – c
abl. -tól / -től kitől mitől ettől attól tőle – c
*: Ő and őt refer to human beings; the forms below them might be
construed likewise. – Forms in parentheses are uncommon. All »

Etymology

ki +‎ -n

Pronunciation

Pronoun

kin

  1. superessive singular of ki

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 kin

Min Nan

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

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

possessives of kin
singular duoplural plural
1st person shikin nihikin danihikin
2nd person nikin nihikin danihikin
3rd person bikin
4th person (3o) yikin
4th person (3a) hakin
Indefinite (3i) akin

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kin

  1. him

Northern Kurdish

Adjective

kin ?

  1. short

Synonyms

Nupe

Pronunciation

Noun

kíǹ (plural kíǹzhì)

  1. land
    kíǹ Nupe ― Nupeland
  2. country
  3. earth; ground

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)

  1. chin

Derived terms

Further reading

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

Yagara

Noun

kin

  1. Alternative form of ginn.

References

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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