zain

Borrowed from French zain.

zain (plural zains)

1. (archaic) A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.
   • 1905, Sir William Ridgeway, The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse:

     Azara estimates the proportion of bays amongst these horses to be about ninety to ten zains, that is, entirely dark-coloured without any white; and there is not one black in two thousand; pied and greys occur sometimes […]

• Nazi, azin, nazi, zina

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• Rhymes: -ai̯n
• Hyphenation: zain

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• zan (Biscayan)

zain inan

1. vein

   Synonyms: zainurdin, bena

2. (colloquial) nerve

   Synonyms: zaintzuri, nerbio

3. (colloquial) tendon, sinew

   Synonyms: zurda, tendoi

4. artery

   Synonyms: zaingorri, arteria

5. varicose vein

   Synonym: barize

6. vigor, strength
7. (figuratively) root

   Synonyms: zuztar, erro

From Proto-Basque *zani.^[1]

• zan (Biscayan)

zain anim

1. guard, watchman
2. shepherd

   Synonym: artzain

zain

1. Third-person singular (hura), taking informal second-person singular feminine (hiri) as indirect object, present indicative form of izan.

• “zain”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
• “zain”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

• soi (Luserna)

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-West Germanic *sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, hers, its, their own”). Cognate with German sein.

zain (plural zain, bon/dar zaindarn) (Sette Comuni)

1. his, her, its, their

   Dar zain zun machet in zòllander. ― His son is in the military.

   An tòchtar bon zaindarn ist an léeraren. ― Their daughter is a teacher.

2. his, hers, its, theirs

   De khua ist zain. ― The cow is hers.

The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:

• They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
• Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
  • The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
• Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
• Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.

• “zain” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

Borrowed from Italian zaino.

• IPA^(key): /zɛ̃/

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zain (feminine zaine, masculine plural zains, feminine plural zaines)

1. Having no white markings (of the coat of a horse, dog etc.)

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