ini

From Common Turkic *ini (“younger brother”).

ini (definite accusative inini, plural inilər)

1. (Balakan, Qakh, Sheki, Zaqatala) husband's brother

   Synonym: qayın

• “ini” in Obastan.com.

• ni

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

• Hyphenation: i‧ni
• IPA^(key): /ʔiˈni/

ini

1. this
2. these

Inherited from Proto-Tupian *ẽri.

ini

1. hammock

• Denny Moore (1984) Syntax of the Language of the Gavião Indians of Rondônia, Brazil (in Gavião do Jiparaná), page 25

īní or ínī

1. elephant

• The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals →ISBN, Koen Bogers, Harry van der Hulst, Maarten Mous (editors), 1986

From Proto-Inuit *ǝnǝ (“place, room, house”), from Proto-Eskimo *ǝnǝ (“dwelling place, house”).

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /ini/,

ini (plural init)

1. room
2. nest

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

ini

1. this

• IPA^(key): /iniəʔ/
• Hyphenation: i‧ni
• Rhymes: -ni

ini

1. grandmother

From Malay ini, from Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈini/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: i‧ni

ini

1. only, just
   • 1999, Potret, Kentut Siapa?, Aquarius Musikindo:

     Alami ini dan pasti pernah

     It's only natural and everyone has done it before

ini

1. this (the (thing) here)
2. this (known (thing) just mentioned)
3. this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
4. this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

ini

1. this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)

Together with itu, these can be placed following (in the standard language) or preceding the noun (in the colloquial language), the latter possibly due to the influence of Malay trade and creole languages of eastern Indonesia. Also, this can be shortened colloquially to ni.

• kini (“now”)
• sini (“here”)
• yang ini (“this one”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni (compare Indonesian ini).

ini

1. this (the thing, item, etc. being pointed)

From Common Turkic *ini Cognate with Azerbaijani ini and Salar ini.

• IPA^(key): /ini/

ini (definite accusative iniñ, plural inilər)

1. husband's brother-in-law

   Synonyms: kişi lâlası, qâdın

2. wife's brother-in-law

   Synonyms: hər lâlası, qâdın

• ini kişisi (“sister-in-law, wife of one's brother”)

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1987) Lexik und Sprachgeographie des Chaladsch [Lexicon and Language Geography of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ìnì(ꜜ)/
• (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ngo, iburi, mũgeni, mũndũ, inooro, rũnyarĩrĩ, mwandĩko, and so on.^[1][2]

ini class 5 (plural mani)

1. liver

• Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.

ini

1. (Asas) louse

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈi.niː/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈi.ni/,

inī

1. second-person singular active imperative of ineō

• ni (colloquial)

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

• IPA^(key): /ini/
• Rhymes: -ini, -ni, -i

ini (Jawi spelling اين)

1. this (the (thing) here)
2. this (known (thing) just mentioned)
3. this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
4. this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

ini (Jawi spelling اين)

1. this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)

• kini (“now”)
• sini (“here”)
• yang ini (“this one”)

• IPA^(key):

ini

1. name
2. word (especially a word written down)

• inini (“to name”)
• initjara (“big shot; VIP”)
• iniwati (“namesake”)
• ini tjitjitja (“childhood (Aboriginal) name”)

Cognate with Turkmen ini.

• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Baizhuang, Muchang, Shuzi, Jishi, Tapo, Mengda, Qingshui, Xunhua, Gandu, Ashnu, Hualong, Qinghai, Ili, Samuyuzi, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA^(key):
• (Jiezi, Gaizi, Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key):
• (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key):

ini

1. younger brother

• 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chao Ke] (2014) “ini”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎, 1^st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 [Social Science Literature Press], →ISBN, page 109
• 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “ini, ini, ini, ini”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 272
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “ini”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 3
• Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “ini”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 139
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “ini, iny, ine”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 338
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “ini”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 119

ini

1. inflection of in:
   1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
   2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
   3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

From English in.

ini

1. in

ini

1. inside

Swahili Wikipedia has an article on:

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• Audio (Kenya):

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ini class V (plural maini class VI)

1. liver (organ of the body)
2. heart (seat of the emotions and feelings)

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ini (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵏⵉ)

1. (transitive) to say
2. (transitive) to announce, to utter, to pronounce
3. (transitive) to inform
4. (transitive) to call, to be called, to be named
5. (transitive) to mean

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Passive: twanna (“to be said”)
• timenna (“saying, speech”)
• amennan (“braggart”)

From Proto-Berber.

ini

1. to say
2. to tell
3. to think

• tannayt (“saying”)
• iwnnan (“rumors”)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ʔini/
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: i‧ni

ini (Sulat Sūg spelling اِنِ)

1. this

ini

1. accusative singular of in
2. third-person singular simple present possessive of in

IPA^(key):

ini

1. younger brother

   Coordinate term: aga

2. son of brother

From Proto-Oceanic *(i-)ni (“this”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

• IPA^(key): /ini/

ini

1. that

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 364
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

ini

1. into

iní

1. this

Possibly related to the stem found in Ternate ngoni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.n̪i/

ini (possessive prefix fi)

1. second-person plural pronoun, you all

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

From Proto-Mixtec *ínì.

ini

1. stomach

ini

1. inside

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 10

ini (c)

1. this
2. fountain