cin

From Proto-Vietic *ciːnʔ, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *dciinʔ; cognate with Vietnamese chín.

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cin

1. nine

• Michel Ferlus, 2014, Arem, a Vietic Language, Mon-Khmer Studies 43.1-15, page 5

cin

1. five

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cin (ci)

1. (very rare) thee, you

Esperanto personal pronouns

		singular				plural
		nominative	accusative	possessive		nominative	accusative	possessive
first person		mi	min	mia		ni	nin	nia
second person	formal	vi	vin	via		vi	vin	via
	familiar1	ci	cin	cia
third person	masculine	li	lin	lia		ili iŝi3	ilin iŝin3	ilia iŝia3
	feminine	ŝi	ŝin	ŝia
	neuter	ĝi	ĝin	ĝia
	gender-neutral2	ri ŝli	rin ŝlin	ria ŝlia
	reflexive	si	sin	sia		si	sin	sia
indefinite		oni	onin	onia		oni	onin	onia

¹ The second person familiar pronouns are archaic.

² The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used.

³ The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used.

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• Rhymes: -in

Borrowed from German, more specifically from High German. Compare German Zinn. Ultimately, from Old High German zin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

cin (usually uncountable, plural cinek)

1. (folksy) tin

   Synonyms: bádog, ón

An onomatopoeia.

cin

2. squeak (imitative of a short, high-pitched sound of a mouse; can be used repetitively)
   • 1845, Hans Christian Andersen, “A fenyőfa (The Fir Tree)”, in Hans Christian Andersen meséi‎, →ISBN:

     Cin, cin! – cincogta egy előiramodó egérke.

     “Squeak, squeak,” said a little mouse that scurried forward.

• (tin): cin in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• cin in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tsʰi̯en (“thousand”), from Chinese 千 (MC tshen). Cognate with Western Xiangxi Miao canf.

cin

1. thousand

Cognate with Burmese ဆန် (hcan, “rice”).

cin

1. rice
2. husked rice.

• Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃin/

ċin n

1. alternative form of ċinn: chin
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     Our English ch (pronounced tch) for original c (as in chin for Old English cin, child for cild) is due probably to Norman influence, but here, as often, it is difficult to differentiate the results of the many disturbing causes which have operated upon our language.

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From Proto-Celtic *kʷinuts, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to pay, avenge”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲin/

cin m

1. fault, guilt
2. sin, crime

• Middle Irish: cin (“guilt; payment due, fee”)
  • Classical Gaelic: cion (“guilt; due portion; partiality”)
    • Irish: cion (“transgression; share; affection”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic чинъ (činŭ).

cin n (plural cinuri)

1. high social position in the Middle Ages

Inherited from Proto-Aslian *cɛɛn, from Proto-Austroasiatic *ciːnʔ. Cognate with Mon စိန် (cin), Khmer ឆ្អិន (chʼən), Vietnamese chín, Bahnar sĭn, Pacoh chein, Mang θiːn² and Bolyu tɕin⁵³.

cin

1. to be cooked

• Kruspe, Nicole. “Complex Clauses.” In A Grammar of Semelai, 339–95. Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.

cin

1. sleeve

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• Hyphenation: cin

From Ottoman Turkish جن, from Arabic جِنّ (jinn).

cin (definite accusative cini, plural cinler)

1. genie
2. (Islam) jinn, demon

From English gin.

cin (definite accusative cini, plural cinler)

1. gin (liquor)

• “cin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• cin on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr

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cīn

1. to pull
2. to draw

cin (nominative plural cins)

1. machine