kin

kin

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

• enPR: kĭn, IPA^(key): /kɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

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”).

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.

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 84:

     Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.

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.
   • 1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248:

     Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.

• kith
• clan

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

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.

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

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.

Clipping of fictionkin.

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.

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

kin (plural kins)

1. Alternative form of k'in

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.

kin (uncountable)

1. (colloquial) Short for kinesiology.

• -nik, Nik, ink

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

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kin (plural kinne)

1. Alternative form of ken

From Persian کین.

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kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinlər)

1. hidden anger, spite, malice, grudge

   Synonym: ədavət

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

• kinli

• “kin” in Obastan.com.

kin

1. to eat

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɪn]
• Rhymes: -ɪn

kin

1. genitive plural of kino

• nik

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

• IPA^(key): /kɪn/

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• Hyphenation: kin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)

1. chin

• kinlijn
• onderkin

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

kin

1. who

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

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 »

ki +‎ -n

• IPA^(key): [ˈkin]

kin

1. superessive singular of ki

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Cardinal: kin     Ordinal: kinesma     Adverbial: kinfoye     Multiplier: kinopla     Fractional: kinima

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

kin

1. five (5)

kin

1. Rōmaji transcription of きん

kin

1. Alternative form of kyn

Compare Dogrib kǫ̀.

• IPA^(key): [kxʲɪ̀n]

kin

1. market, store

   Kingóó déyá. ― I am going to the store.

2. house, cabin, building
3. town

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

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

• hooghan

kin

1. him

kin (comparative kintir, superlative herî kin)

1. short

• kurt
• qut
• quse

• IPA^(key): /kí.ŋ̀/

kin

1. to eat

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كین (kin, “a grudge, concealed desire of revenge, malice”),.^[1][2] from Persian كین (kin) or کینه (kine, “hatred, rancour, malevolence”)^[3]

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

kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinler)

1. grudge, desire to take revenge

   Synonym: garaz

Inflection
Nominative	kin
Definite accusative	kini
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kin	kinler
Definite accusative	kini	kinleri
Dative	kine	kinlere
Locative	kinde	kinlerde
Ablative	kinden	kinlerden
Genitive	kinin	kinlerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular kinim kinlerim 2nd singular kinin kinlerin 3rd singular kini kinleri 1st plural kinimiz kinlerimiz 2nd plural kininiz kinleriniz 3rd plural kinleri kinleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular kinimi kinlerimi 2nd singular kinini kinlerini 3rd singular kinini kinlerini 1st plural kinimizi kinlerimizi 2nd plural kininizi kinlerinizi 3rd plural kinlerini kinlerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular kinime kinlerime 2nd singular kinine kinlerine 3rd singular kinine kinlerine 1st plural kinimize kinlerimize 2nd plural kininize kinlerinize 3rd plural kinlerine kinlerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular kinimde kinlerimde 2nd singular kininde kinlerinde 3rd singular kininde kinlerinde 1st plural kinimizde kinlerimizde 2nd plural kininizde kinlerinizde 3rd plural kinlerinde kinlerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular kinimden kinlerimden 2nd singular kininden kinlerinden 3rd singular kininden kinlerinden 1st plural kinimizden kinlerimizden 2nd plural kininizden kinlerinizden 3rd plural kinlerinden kinlerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular kinimin kinlerimin 2nd singular kininin kinlerinin 3rd singular kininin kinlerinin 1st plural kinimizin kinlerimizin 2nd plural kininizin kinlerinizin 3rd plural kinlerinin kinlerinin

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

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

• IPA^(key): /kɪn/

kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)

1. chin

• ûnderkin

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

kin

1. Alternative form of ginn.

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

kin

1. Alternative form of ken
   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:

     Heal, griue, an kin, apaa thee, graacuse Forth,

     Health, wealth, and regard upon thee, gracious Forth,

• 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