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 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”).

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 July, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] T[homas] Egerton, […], OCLC 39810224, page 248:

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

• kith
• clan

• kin at 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 empathize or emotionally relate to a fictional character.

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

kin (plural kins)

1. Alternative form of k'in

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.

• -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

• kinli

• “kin” in Obastan.com.

• 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

ki +‎ -n

• IPA^(key): [ˈkin]

kin

1. superessive singular of ki

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 kin

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 ?

1. short

• kurt
• qut
• quse

• IPA^(key): /kí.ŋ̀/

kíǹ (plural kíǹzhì)

1. land

   kíǹ Nupe ― Nupeland

2. country
3. earth; ground

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

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 49