kin

From Dutch kin, from Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.


kin

az-noun

kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinlər)

kini (accusative definite)
kinlər (plural)
kinim (first-person nominative possessive singular)
kinlərim (first-person nominative possessive singular)
kinin (nominative possessive second-person singular)
kinlərin (nominative possessive second-person singular)
kini (nominative possessive singular third-person)
kinləri (nominative possessive singular third-person)
kinimiz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
kinlərimiz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
kininiz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
kinləriniz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
kini (nominative plural possessive third-person)
kinləri (nominative plural possessive third-person)
kinimi (accusative first-person possessive singular)
kinlərimi (accusative first-person possessive singular)
kinini (accusative possessive second-person singular)
kinlərini (accusative possessive second-person singular)
kinini (accusative possessive singular third-person)
kinlərini (accusative possessive singular third-person)
kinimizi (accusative first-person plural possessive)
kinlərimizi (accusative first-person plural possessive)
kininizi (accusative plural possessive second-person)
kinlərinizi (accusative plural possessive second-person)
kinini (accusative plural possessive third-person)
kinlərini (accusative plural possessive third-person)
kinimə (dative first-person possessive singular)
kinlərimə (dative first-person possessive singular)
kininə (dative possessive second-person singular)
kinlərinə (dative possessive second-person singular)
kininə (dative possessive singular third-person)
kinlərinə (dative possessive singular third-person)
kinimizə (dative first-person plural possessive)
kinlərimizə (dative first-person plural possessive)
kininizə (dative plural possessive second-person)
kinlərinizə (dative plural possessive second-person)
kininə (dative plural possessive third-person)
kinlərinə (dative plural possessive third-person)
kinimdə (first-person locative possessive singular)
kinlərimdə (first-person locative possessive singular)
kinində (locative possessive second-person singular)
kinlərində (locative possessive second-person singular)
kinində (locative possessive singular third-person)
kinlərində (locative possessive singular third-person)
kinimizdə (first-person locative plural possessive)
kinlərimizdə (first-person locative plural possessive)
kininizdə (locative plural possessive second-person)
kinlərinizdə (locative plural possessive second-person)
kinində (locative plural possessive third-person)
kinlərində (locative plural possessive third-person)
kinimdən (ablative first-person possessive singular)
kinlərimdən (ablative first-person possessive singular)
kinindən (ablative possessive second-person singular)
kinlərindən (ablative possessive second-person singular)
kinindən (ablative possessive singular third-person)
kinlərindən (ablative possessive singular third-person)
kinimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessive)
kinlərimizdən (ablative first-person plural possessive)
kininizdən (ablative plural possessive second-person)
kinlərinizdən (ablative plural possessive second-person)
kinindən (ablative plural possessive third-person)
kinlərindən (ablative plural possessive third-person)
kinimin (first-person genitive possessive singular)
kinlərimin (first-person genitive possessive singular)
kininin (genitive possessive second-person singular)
kinlərinin (genitive possessive second-person singular)
kininin (genitive possessive singular third-person)
kinlərinin (genitive possessive singular third-person)
kinimizin (first-person genitive plural possessive)
kinlərimizin (first-person genitive plural possessive)
kininizin (genitive plural possessive second-person)
kinlərinizin (genitive plural possessive second-person)
kininin (genitive plural possessive third-person)
kinlərinin (genitive plural possessive third-person)


kin

nl-noun

kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)

kinnen (plural)
kinnetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: kin

Negerhollands: kin

→ Papiamentu: kenchi, kinnetje, kintsje (from the diminutive)

From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-West Germanic *kinnu, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénus.


kin

c. 1620, Francis Bacon, letter of advice to Sir George Villiers
You are of kin, and so must be a friend to their persons.

Based on the number of teeth ammonites had—nine—it's believed that their closest living kin are octopuses.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 84:

(collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.

Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.

2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280:

One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.

Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.

1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248:

Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.

en-noun

kin (countable and uncountable, plural kins or kin)

From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).


kin

It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".


kin

Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.

1899, Hugo Riemann, Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation:

If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.

1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository, page 40:

Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”)

Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).


kin

(transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.

en-verb

kin (third-person singular simple present kins, present participle kinning, simple past and past participle kinned)

kins (present singular third-person)
kinning (participle present)
kinned (participle past)
kinned (past)


kin

(fandom slang) A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to.

Alternative form: kinnie

(fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.


kin

[Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'.
 [Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.

1959 January 5, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 4:

Pronunciation spelling
pronunciation spelling


kin

From French cinq, Spanish cinco, Italian cinque, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pénkʷe.


kin

Kingóó déyá.

shikin (first-person singular)
nihikin (duoplural first-person)
danihikin (first-person plural)
nikin (second-person singular)
nihikin (duoplural second-person)
danihikin (plural second-person)
bikin (third-person)
yikin (fourth-person)
hakin (fourth-person)
akin (indefinite)


kin

kmr-adj

kin (comparative kintir, superlative herî kin)

kintir (comparative)
herî kin (superlative)


kin

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Kinyarwanda.


kin

head

kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinler)

kini (accusative definite)
kinler (plural)
kin (nominative singular)
kinler (nominative plural)
kini (accusative definite singular)
kinleri (accusative definite plural)
kine (dative singular)
kinlere (dative plural)
kinde (locative singular)
kinlerde (locative plural)
kinden (ablative singular)
kinlerden (ablative plural)
kinin (genitive singular)
kinlerin (genitive plural)
kinim (first-person nominative singular)
kinlerim (first-person nominative singular)
kinin (nominative second-person singular)
kinlerin (nominative second-person singular)
kini (nominative singular third-person)
kinleri (nominative singular third-person)
kinimiz (first-person nominative plural)
kinlerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
kininiz (nominative plural second-person)
kinleriniz (nominative plural second-person)
kinleri (nominative plural third-person)
kinimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
kinlerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
kinini (accusative definite second-person singular)
kinlerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
kinini (accusative definite singular third-person)
kinlerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
kinimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
kinlerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
kininizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
kinlerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
kinlerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
kinime (dative first-person singular)
kinlerime (dative first-person singular)
kinine (dative second-person singular)
kinlerine (dative second-person singular)
kinine (dative singular third-person)
kinlerine (dative singular third-person)
kinimize (dative first-person plural)
kinlerimize (dative first-person plural)
kininize (dative plural second-person)
kinlerinize (dative plural second-person)
kinlerine (dative plural third-person)
kinimde (first-person locative singular)
kinlerimde (first-person locative singular)
kininde (locative second-person singular)
kinlerinde (locative second-person singular)
kininde (locative singular third-person)
kinlerinde (locative singular third-person)
kinimizde (first-person locative plural)
kinlerimizde (first-person locative plural)
kininizde (locative plural second-person)
kinlerinizde (locative plural second-person)
kinlerinde (locative plural third-person)
kinimden (ablative first-person singular)
kinlerimden (ablative first-person singular)
kininden (ablative second-person singular)
kinlerinden (ablative second-person singular)
kininden (ablative singular third-person)
kinlerinden (ablative singular third-person)
kinimizden (ablative first-person plural)
kinlerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
kininizden (ablative plural second-person)
kinlerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
kinlerinden (ablative plural third-person)
kinimin (first-person genitive singular)
kinlerimin (first-person genitive singular)
kininin (genitive second-person singular)
kinlerinin (genitive second-person singular)
kininin (genitive singular third-person)
kinlerinin (genitive singular third-person)
kinimizin (first-person genitive plural)
kinlerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
kininizin (genitive plural second-person)
kinlerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
kinlerinin (genitive plural third-person)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كین (kin, “a grudge, concealed desire of revenge, malice”),. from Persian كین (kin) or کینه (kine, “hatred, rancour, malevolence”)


kin

head

kin n (plural kinnen, diminutive kintsje)

Borrowed from Middle Low German kinne, kin, from Old Saxon kinni. The inherited Old Frisian form was zin.


kin

Heal, griue, an kin, apaa thee, graacuse Forth,

1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:

Health, wealth, and regard upon thee, gracious Forth,