chin

See also Chin, and chín

English

Composer Ambrose Thomas with hand on chin (1).

Pronunciation

• enPR: chĭn, IPA: /tʃɪn/, X-SAMPA: /tSIn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English chin, from Old English ċinn (“chin”), from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz (“chin”) (cf. West Frisian/Dutch kin, German Kinn), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenHw-, *ǵnā(w)- (“jaw”) (cf. Welsh gen, Latin gena, Tocharian A śanwem, Ancient Greek génys 'jaw', Persian چانه (čâne), Sanskrit hánus).

Noun

chin (plural chins)

1. The bottom of a face, especially, the lower jaw or the region below the mouth.
2. (slang, US) talk.
3. (slang, UK) A falsehood.
4. (boxing, uncountable) The ability to withstand being punched in the face without being knocked out.

Synonyms

• mentum

Derived terms

Terms derived from chin

chin music chinstrap

chin up chin-up

double chin

Translations

bottom of a face

• Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
• Afrikaans: ken (af)
• Albanian: mjekër (sq)
• Arabic: ذَقَن (ar) (ḏaqn) f

  Egyptian Arabic: دقن (daʔn)

• Armenian: դունչ (hy) (dunč), կզակ (hy) (kzak)
• Avar: please add this translation if you can
• Aymara: k'achi (ay)
• Azeri: çənə (az)
• Basque: kokots (eu)
• Belarusian: падбародак (be) (padbaródak) m
• Bengali: চিবুক (bn) (cibuk)
• Breton: elgezh (br) f, chik (br) m
• Bulgarian: брада (bg) (bradá) f
• Burmese: မေးစေ့ (my) (mei: zi.)
• Catalan: mentó (ca) m
• Chechen: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 下巴 (cmn) (xiàba), 頷 (cmn), 颔 (cmn) (hàn), 下巴頦 (cmn), 下巴颏 (cmn) (xiàbakē)

• Chuvash: янах (yanah)
• Coptic: ⲙⲟⲣⲧ (mord, mort) f
• Czech: brada (cs) f
• Danish: hage (da)
• Dutch: kin (nl)
• Esperanto: mentono (eo)
• Estonian: lõug (et)
• Finnish: leuka (fi)
• French: menton (fr) m

  Old French: menton

• Galician: queixo (gl) m
• Georgian: ნიკაპი (ka) (nikapi)
• German: Kinn (de) n
• Greek: σαγόνι (el) (sagóni) n, πηγούνι (el) (pigoúni) n
• Hebrew: סנטר (he) (santér)
• Hindi: ठुड्डी (hi) (ṭhuḍḍī) f, चिबुक (hi) (cibuk) f, ठोड़ी (hi) (ṭhoṛī) f
• Hungarian: áll (hu)
• Icelandic: haka (is) f
• Ido: mentono (io)
• Indonesian: dagu (id)
• Interlingua: mento (ia)
• Irish: smig (ga) f
• Italian: mento (it) m
• Japanese: 顎 (ja) (あご, ago)
• Kapampangan: baba
• Kazakh: иек (kk) (ïek)
• Khmer: ចង្កា (km) (jonggaa)
• Korean: 턱 (ko) (teok)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: چه‌ناگه‌

• Lao: ຄາງ (lo) (khaang)
• Latin: mentum (la)
• Latvian: zods (lv)

• Lithuanian: smakras (lt) m
• Macedonian: брада (mk) (bráda) f
• Malay: dagu (ms)
• Maltese: ilħit (mt)
• Manx: smeg (gv) f, smeggin (gv) m, smeggyl (gv) m
• Maori: kauwae (mi)
• Marathi: हनुवडी (mr) (hanuvaḍī)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: ayaatsʼiin
• Norwegian: hake (no)
• Nottoway-Meherrin: ochag
• Occitan: menton (oc) m
• Old English: cinn (ang)
• Ossetian: please add this translation if you can
• Ottoman Turkish: چانه (çâne), زقن (zekan)
• Persian: چانه (fa) (čâne)
• Polish: podbródek (pl) m, broda (pl) f
• Portuguese: queixo (pt) m
• Quechua: k'aki (qu)
• Romani: falka
• Romanian: bărbie (ro)
• Russian: подбородок (ru) (podboródok) m
• Scottish Gaelic: smiogaid (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: брада (sh) f, подбрада (sh) f, подваљак (sh) m, подбрадак (sh) m

  Roman: brada (sh) f, podbrada (sh) f, podvaljak (sh) m, podbradak (sh) m

• Sicilian: varvarottu (scn) m, babbarottu (scn) m
• Slovak: brada (sk) f
• Slovene: brada (sl) f
• Sotho: seledu (st)
• Spanish: barbilla (es) f, mentón (es) m, pera (es) f
• Swahili: tawa (sw), kidevu (sw)
• Swedish: haka (sv) c
• Tagalog: baba (tl)
• Takia: awa-n to-n
• Tamil: நாடி (ta) (nāṭi)
• Taos: ȍdénemą
• Tatar: ияк (tt) (iyäk)
• Telugu: గడ్డం (te) (gaDDaM), చుబుకం (te) (chubukaM)
• Thai: คาง (th) (kaang)
• Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: çene (tr)
• Turkmen: eňek (tk)
• Tuvan: сегел (segel)
• Ukrainian: підборіддя (uk) (pidboríddja) n
• Urdu: ٹھڈی (ur) (ṭhuḍḍī) f, چبک (ur) (cibuk) f, ٹھوڑی (ur) (ṭhoṛī) f
• Vietnamese: cằm (vi)
• Volapük: cün (vo)
• West Frisian: kin (fy)
• Yiddish: גאמבע (yi)
• ǃXóõ: dzàni

Verb

chin (third-person singular simple present chins, present participle chinning, simple past and past participle chinned)

1. (slang, intransitive) To talk.
2. To perform a chin-up.
3. (UK, transitive) To punch (someone)'s chin (part of the body).

Synonyms

• (talk (slang)): gab

Etymology 2

Shortening of chinchilla.

Noun

chin (plural chins)

1. (endearing) a chinchilla.

Anagrams

• inch

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• chinu, kinu

Etymology

From Latin pīnus. Compare Daco-Romanian pin.

Noun

chin

1. pine

See also

• brad

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Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Latin canem, accusative singular of canis.

Noun

chin

1. dog

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Japanese

Romanization

chin

1. See ちん

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Navajo

Pronunciation

• IPA: [tʃʰɪ̀n]

Noun

chin

1. grime, filth, body dirt

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Romanian

Etymology

Hungarian kín

Pronunciation

• IPA: [cin]

Noun

chin n (plural chinuri)

1. torture, pain

Declension

declension of chin

	singular		plural
gender n	indefinite articulation	definite articulation	indefinite articulation	definite articulation
nominative/accusative	un chin	chinul	niște chinuri	chinurile
genitive/dative	unui chin	chinului	unor chinuri	chinurilor

Synonyms

• durere

Derived terms

• a chinui

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Spanish

Noun

chin m (plural chines)

1. (Dominican Republic, slang) small amount

   Dame un chin de café. (Give me a little coffee.)

References

• Orlando Alba, Cómo hablamos los dominicanos, Santo Domingo, Amigo del Hogar, 2003. (full text)