calin

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See also: câlin, călin, and Călin

English

Etymology

From French calin, calain, from Portuguese calaim, from Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).

Noun

calin (uncountable)

  1. An alloy of lead and tin.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “calin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Verb

calin

  1. inflection of calar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Mapudungun

Verb

calin (Raguileo spelling)

  1. to greet
  2. first-person singular realis form of calin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French câlin.

Adjective

calin m or n (feminine singular calină, masculine plural calini, feminine and neuter plural caline)

  1. cuddly

Declension

singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative-
accusative 		indefinite calin calină calini caline
definite calinul calina calinii calinele
genitive-
dative 		indefinite calin caline calini caline
definite calinului calinei calinilor calinelor
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