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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic تِين (tīn, “fig”).
Noun
تین • (tin)
- fig, the fruit of the tree Ficus carica
- Synonym: انجیر (incir)
Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4829
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 422
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ficus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 570
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1510
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 620
Torwali
Etymology
From Sanskrit तीक्ष्ण (tīkṣṇa), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tigsnós (“sharp”). Related to تد (tid, “bitter”).
Adjective
تین (tīn)
- sharp
Urdu
Etymology
Inherited from Sanskrit त्रि (trí), त्रीन् (trīn) from Proto-Indo-Iranian *tráyas, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes.
Pronunciation
Numeral
تین • (tīn) (Hindi spelling तीन)
- three