engin

engin (plural engins)

1. Obsolete form of engine.

• -genin, Ingen, genin

From Old French engin, from Latin ingenium.

• IPA^(key): /ɑ̃.ʒɛ̃/

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engin m (plural engins)

1. any device, contraption or machinery, particularly a complex, dangerous or powerful one
2. a piece of military equipment
3. a piece of heavy machinery
4. (informal) any object whose name or function is unknown; a thingy; a gizmo
5. (informal) penis
6. (chiefly law) a piece of hunting equipment
   • 1997, Le Courrier de la nature, number 161-174, page 149:

     A noter que la caouanne, Caretta caretta, semble effectivement ne plus pondre en Corse, l'espèce n'a pas complètement disparu des côtes de France où, chaque année, quelques individus sont capturés involuntairement par des engins de pêche.

     It should be noted that the loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta, no longer seems to lay eggs in Corsica, but the species has not completely disappeared from French coastlines where, each year, several individuals are caught unintentionally in fishing apparatus.

7. (sports) an apparatus used in artistic gymnastics
8. (dated) any tool or apparatus

• engeigner

• ingénieur
• ingénieux

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

engin

1. (indefinite) inflection of enginn:
   1. feminine nominative singular
   2. neuter nominative plural
   3. neuter accusative plural

engin

1. inflection of engi:
   1. definite nominative plural
   2. definite accusative plural

• amgin
• enghien
• engien, engïen (common)
• enging

From Latin ingenium.

engin m (oblique plural engins, nominative singular engins, nominative plural engin)

1. intelligence
2. ruse; trickery; deception
3. invention; ingenuity; creativity
4. machine; device; contraption

• engigneor

• → English: engine
• Middle French: engin
  • French: engin
• Norman: engîn
• → Scots: ingine

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (engin)
• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (engin, supplement)
• engin on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

From Ottoman Turkish انگین‎ (engin), from the verb اینمك‎ (enmek, “to fall down”), whence also Turkish inmek.

• IPA^(key): /eɲˈɟin/
• Hyphenation: en‧gin

engin

1. vast

   Synonym: vâsi

engin (definite accusative engini, plural enginler)

1. (nautical) high seas

   Synonyms: açık deniz, alarga

• engin in Turkish dictionaries at Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “engin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “engin”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı