tin

English

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Etymology

From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

• enPR: tĭn, IPA^(key): /tɪn/,

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• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophones: thin (with th-stopping), ten (with pin-pen merger)

Noun

tin (countable and uncountable, plural tins)

2. (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
3. (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, British, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.

   a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish

   Several tins of paint were needed to paint the house.

   empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.

   • 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:

     When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.

4. (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.

   muffin tin

   roasting tin

   baking tin

5. (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
6. (slang, dated, uncountable) money, especially silver money.
   • 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby:

     The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know

   • 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:

     When all your tin is gone and spent, / And you've not a mag for bread or rent

7. (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.

Synonyms

• (airtight container): can (especially US), tin can

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

tin (not comparable)

1. Made of tin.
2. Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
   • 1939, George Orwell, Coming up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz:

     [I]n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab[ernacle] - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that.

Synonyms

• tinnen (obsolete)

Derived terms

• tin tabernacle
• tin bath

Translations

Verb

tin (third-person singular simple present tins, present participle tinning, simple past and past participle tinned)

1. (transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
2. (transitive) To cover with tin.
3. (transitive) To coat with solder
   1. To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
   2. To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire

Coordinate terms

• bronze
• (to preserve): can, bottle
• (to prepare for soldering): wet, flux

Derived terms

• pre-tin
• tinned dog

Translations

See also

References

• (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

• INT, ITN, i'n't, in't, int, int., nit

Afrikaans

Noun

tin (uncountable)

1. tin

Atong (India)

Etymology

Borrowed from English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

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Noun

tin (Bengali script তিন)

1. corrugated iron

References

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

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Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinlər)

1. corner (the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point)
2. intersection

   Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) çaharrah

Declension

Cypriot Arabic

Etymology

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

Noun

tin m (collective)

1. figs

References

• Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 177

Danish

Noun

tin

1. tin (Sn)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tin, ten, from Old Dutch *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɪn/

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• Hyphenation: tin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

tin n (uncountable)

1. tin (metal, metallic element)

Derived terms

• soldeertin
• tinnen

Descendants

• Afrikaans: tin
• Negerhollands: den

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, uncountable)

1. tin (chemical element)

Declension

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

Etymology 1

From Middle French tin, tind.

Noun

tin m (plural tins)

1. a wooden support, often used on watercraft

Etymology 2

Interjection

tin

1. (Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

Further reading

• “tin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English tin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin

1. tin
2. can (an airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.)

Icelandic

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Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰɪːn/
• Rhymes: -ɪːn

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, no plural)

1. tin (chemical element)

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: tin

Etymology 1

From English tin, from Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Noun

tin (first-person possessive tinku, second-person possessive tinmu, third-person possessive tinnya)

1. tin, an airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.

   Synonyms: belek, kaleng

Alternative forms

• tim

Etymology 2

From Arabic تِين (tīn, “fig”).

Noun

tin (first-person possessive tinku, second-person possessive tinmu, third-person possessive tinnya)

1. fig, a fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

Further reading

• “tin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latvian

Verb

tin

1. inflection of tīt:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of tīt
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of tīt

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn/

Noun

tin m (collective, singulative tina, plural tiniet)

1. fig, figs: (several fruits; fig as a mass or taste)
2. (humorous) buttocks

   Synonyms: natka (natika), tebqa tas-sorm

   Alternative form: tint

Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

tin (subjective pronoun þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

Pronoun

tin (subjective þou)

1. (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

Etymology 2

Noun

tin

1. Alternative form of tyn

Navajo

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Etymology

From the root -TIN (“to freeze”), from Proto-Athabaskan *tən (“ice, frost”).

Cognates:

• Apachean: Western Apache tįh, Chiricahua tį’, Lipan kįh
• Others: Hupa -tiŋ, Galice tʰɐn, Chilcotin tə̀n, Slavey tę̀, -téné’, Dogrib tǫ́, Dene Sųłiné tə̀n, Sarcee nistiní, Chipewyan tvn, Beaver istv́ni, Carrier tvn, Sekani tə̀n, Hän tán, Ahtna ten, Dena’ina tən.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

tin

1. ice, frost

Noone

Numeral

tin

1. five

References

• R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

North Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian tiān. Compare West Frisian tsien, Sylt North Frisian tiin.

Numeral

tin

1. (Föhr-Amrum) ten

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tìn n (definite singular tìnet)

1. (pre-1938) alternative form of tinn

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin n

1. tin

Declension

Derived terms

• tinen

Descendants

• Middle English: tyn, tin, tyne, tynne
  • English: tin
    • → Atong (India): tin
    • → Iban: tin
    • → Indonesian: tin
    • → Norman: tinne
    • Tok Pisin: tin
  • Scots: tin

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Noun

tin n

1. tin

Descendants

References

• “tin”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese ter and Spanish tener and Kabuverdianu têm.

Verb

tin

1. to have
2. to possess
3. there are

Picard

Pronoun

tin m

1. your

Rohingya

Etymology

From Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

Numeral

tin (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴞𐴕)

1. three

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch tien.

Numeral

tin

1. ten

Sumerian

Romanization

tin

1. Romanization of 𒁷 (tin)

Swedish

Etymology

Syncopic form of tiden.

Noun

tin

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of tiden, definite singular of tid

   Han skriker hela tin! ― He's yelling all the time!

Usage notes

”Tiden” is only pronounced this way in the expression ”hela tiden”.

Anagrams

• int, nit

Tày

Pronunciation

• (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key):
• (Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key):

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *tiːnᴬ (“foot”).

Noun

tin (𬦿)

1. foot

Derived terms

• tin fạ
• tin khôn

Etymology 2

From Vietnamese tin.

Noun

tin (信)

1. news

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English tin.

Noun

tin

1. tin, can

Derived terms

• tinpis

Turkish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tin/,
• Rhymes: -in

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰃𐰤 (tïn, “spirit, breath”).

Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinler)

1. (spiritualism) soul, spirit(rare, re-introduced in 1934 during the TDK’s language reform)

   Synonyms: ruh, can

2. (philosophy) The essence or entity which some metaphysicists claim that the universe was created by or originated from

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic تين (tīn, “fig”)

1. (archaic) fig

   Synonym: incir

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• “tin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 信 (SV: tín).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key):
• (Huế) IPA^(key):
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key):

Verb

tin • (信, 𪝮, 𠒷)

1. to believe or to trust

   tin tưởng ― to believe in; to trust

   cả tin ― gullible

Noun

tin • (信, 𪝮, 𠒷)

1. news

   Synonym: tin tức

   tin nóng ― breaking news

   tin buồn ― sad news, especially about someone who's passed away

   tin dữ ― bad news

   tin mừng/vui ― good news

   đạo Tin Lành ― Protestantism (literally, “religion of good news; religion of the gospel; evangelical religion”)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-, see also English thigh, Scottish Gaelic tòin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tiːn/

Noun

tin f (plural tinau)

1. (vulgar, offensive) arse

   Synonym: pen-ôl

Derived terms

• tin dros ben (“arse over tit”)
• tingoch (“redstart”)
• tinboeth (“lecherous; arsesmart, water-pepper; redstart”)
• tindroed (“grebe, arsefoot”)

Mutation

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yoruba

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tĩ̄/

Verb

tin

1. to be thin; to be skinny

   Synonyms: tín-ín-rín, pẹ́lẹ́ńgẹ́, tẹ́ẹ́rẹ́

   Bọ̀bọ́ yẹn tin lẹ́sẹ̀. ― That guy's legs are thin.

   Apá mi tin díẹ̀. ― My arms are a bit skinny.