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Clipping of English Cinta Larga or Portuguese cinta larga.

cin

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Cinta Larga.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Cinta Larga terms

cin

1. five

• IPA^(key): /t͡sin/

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• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: cin

cin

1. accusative of ci

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡sin]
• Rhymes: -in

Borrowed from German, more specifically from High German. Compare German Zinn.^[1] Ultimately, from Old High German zin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

cin (usually uncountable, plural cinek)

1. (folksy) tin

   Synonyms: bádog, ón

An onomatopoeia.

cin

2. squeak (imitative of a short, high-pitched sound of a mouse; can be used repetitively)
   • 1845, Hans Christian Andersen, “A fenyőfa (The Fir Tree)”, in Hans Christian Andersen meséi‎^[1], →ISBN:

     Cin, cin! – cincogta egy előiramodó egérke.

     “Squeak, squeak,” said a little mouse that scurried forward.

• (tin): cin in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• cin in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *tsʰi̯en (“thousand”), from Chinese 千 (MC tshen). Cognate with Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] canf.

cin

1. thousand

Cognate with Burmese ဆန် (hcan, “rice”).

cin

1. rice
2. husked rice.

• Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃin/

ċin n

1. alternative form of ċinn (“chin”)
   • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:

     Our English ch (pronounced tch) for original c (as in chin for Old English cin, child for cild) is due probably to Norman influence, but here, as often, it is difficult to differentiate the results of the many disturbing causes which have operated upon our language.

Strong a-stem:

• IPA^(key): /kin/

cin n

1. alternative form of cynn (“kind, sort, type, race”)

Strong a-stem:

From Proto-Celtic *kʷinuts, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷey- (“to pay, avenge”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʲin/

cin m

1. fault, guilt
2. sin, crime

• Middle Irish: cin (“guilt; payment due, fee”)
  • Classical Gaelic: cion (“guilt; due portion; partiality”)
    • Irish: cion (“transgression; share; affection”)

• Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cin”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic чинъ (činŭ).

cin n (plural cinuri)

1. high social position in the Middle Ages

Inherited from Proto-Aslian *cɛɛn, from Proto-Austroasiatic *ciːnʔ. Cognate with Mon စိန် (cin), Khmer ឆ្អិន (chʼən), Vietnamese chín, Bahnar sĭn, Pacoh chein, Mang θiːn² and Bolyu tɕin⁵³.

cin

1. to be cooked

• Nicole Kruspe, “Complex Clauses”, in A Grammar of Semelai, 339–95. Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Nicole Kruspe, Asifa Majid, The linguistics of odour in Semaq Beri and Semelai, two Austroasiatic languages of the Malay Peninsula, in Studies in Language (International Journal sponsored by the Foundation “Foundations of Language”), volume 47, issue 3, July 2023, p. 599 - 642: "cin cooked"

cin

1. sleeve

• IPA^(key): [d͡ʒin]

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• Hyphenation: cin

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish جن (cinn), borrowed from Arabic جِنّ (jinn).

cin (definite accusative cini, plural cinler)

1. genie
2. (Islam) jinn

   Synonym: üç harfli (colloquial)

From English gin.

cin (definite accusative cini, plural cinler)

1. gin (liquor)

• “cin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
• cin on the Turkish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^tr

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cīn

1. to pull
2. to draw

cin (genitive cina, plural cins)

1. machine