calin

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See also: câlin, călin, and Călin

English

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Etymology

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From French calin, calain, from Portuguese calaim, from Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).

Noun

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calin (uncountable)

  1. An alloy of lead and tin.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for calin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

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Catalan

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Verb

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calin

  1. inflection of calar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative

Mapudungun

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Verb

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calin (Raguileo spelling)

  1. to greet
  2. first-person singular realis form of calin

Romanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from French câlin.

Adjective

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calin m or n (feminine singular calină, masculine plural calini, feminine and neuter plural caline)

  1. cuddly

Declension

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