zain

Borrowed from French zain.

zain (plural zains)

1. (archaic) A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.
   • 1905, Sir William Ridgeway, The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse:

     Azara estimates the proportion of bays amongst these horses to be about ninety to ten zains, that is, entirely dark-coloured without any white; and there is not one black in two thousand; pied and greys occur sometimes […]

• Nazi, azin, nazi, zina

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• Rhymes: -ai̯n
• Hyphenation: zain

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• zan (Biscayan)

zain inan

1. vein

   Synonyms: zainurdin, bena

2. (colloquial) nerve

   Synonyms: zaintzuri, nerbio

3. (colloquial) tendon, sinew

   Synonyms: zurda, tendoi

4. artery

   Synonyms: zaingorri, arteria

5. varicose vein

   Synonym: barize

6. vigor, strength
7. (figuratively) root

   Synonyms: zuztar, erro

From Proto-Basque *zani.^[1]

• zan (Biscayan)

zain anim

1. guard, watchman
2. shepherd

   Synonym: artzain

zain

1. Third-person singular (hura), taking informal second-person singular feminine (hiri) as indirect object, present indicative form of izan.

• “zain”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “zain”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• soi (Luserna)

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-West Germanic *sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, hers, its, their own”). Cognate with German sein.

zain (plural zain, bon/dar zaindarn) (Sette Comuni)

1. his, her, its, their

   Dar zain zun machet in zòllander. ― His son is in the military.

   An tòchtar bon zaindarn ist an léeraren. ― Their daughter is a teacher.

2. his, hers, its, theirs

   De khua ist zain. ― The cow is hers.

The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:

• They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
• Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
  • The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
• Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
• Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.

Inflection of zain
masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
zaindar	zaina	zaines	zaine
These inflections are only used in exclamations.

Possessive determiners
	singular	plural
1st person	main	ögnar
2nd person	dain	ôar
3rd person	zain

• “zain” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Borrowed from Italian zaino.

• IPA^(key): /zɛ̃/

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zain (feminine zaine, masculine plural zains, feminine plural zaines)

1. Having no white markings (of the coat of a horse, dog etc.)

• “zain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.