zin

• Zin

Clipping of zinfandel.

zin (countable and uncountable, plural zins)

1. (informal) Zinfandel wine.

• IPA^(key): /zɪn/

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• Hyphenation: zin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

From Middle Dutch sin, from Old Dutch sin, from Proto-West Germanic *sinn.

zin m (plural zinnen, diminutive zinnetje n)

1. meaning, significance

   Wat is de zin van het leven?

   What is the meaning of life?

   Synonym: betekenis

2. point, sense

   Dat heeft geen zin.

   There's no point.

3. (grammar) sentence

   Synonym: frase

4. sense (means of perceiving reality)

   Synonym: zintuig

5. sense, comprehension

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

6. desire, appetite; intention

   Ik heb zin om iets te doen. ― I feel like doing something.

   Synonyms: lust, trek, goesting

• Afrikaans: sin
• Negerhollands: sin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

zin

1. first-person singular present indicative of zinnen
2. imperative of zinnen

• inz.

zin

1. incorrect form of verb form zina

IPA^(key): [ʒín] [1]

zin

1. (intransitive) to smell

From French juin.

zin

1. June

zin

1. Alternative spelling of sin

From Middle English sonne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (compare West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

zin (plural zins)

1. sun

• zin-zetteen

• 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 81