gin

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See also gīn, ĝin, Gin, and GIN

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English [edit]

Etymology 1 [edit]

Abbreviation of geneva or alternatively from Dutch genever (“juniper”) from the Old French genevre, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence Gin rummy first attested 1941.

Noun [edit]

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Wikipedia gin (countable and uncountable; plural gins)

  1. A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
  2. (uncountable) gin rummy
  3. (poker) drawing the best card or combination of cards
    Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.
Related terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
alcoholic beverage
References [edit]

Etymology 2 [edit]

Aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”).

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

gin (plural gins)

  1. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
  2. A snare or trap for game.
  3. A machine for hoisting or moving heavy objects.
  4. A pile driver.
  5. A windpump.
  6. A cotton gin.
Related terms [edit]

Verb [edit]

gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past and past participle ginned)

  1. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
  2. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
  3. To invent (via Irish), see gin up
    The matter was a ginned up controversy

Etymology 3 [edit]

From Middle English ginnen, from Old English ginnan (“to open", "to cut open”)

Pronunciation [edit]

/gɪn/

Verb [edit]

gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past gan, past participle gun)

  1. (archaic) To begin.

Etymology 4 [edit]

From Dharug dyin, but having acquired a derogatory tone.[1]

Noun [edit]

gin (plural gins)

  1. (Australia) An Aboriginal woman.
    • 1869, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1, page 273,
      His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
    • 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, 1995, p.179,
      Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.
    • 2008, Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia, unnumbered page,
      But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.
Synonyms [edit]
Derived terms [edit]
References [edit]
  1. ^ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, ISBN 0-19-553099-3, page 167.

Anagrams [edit]

French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English gin.

Pronunciation [edit]

Noun [edit]

gin m (plural gins)

  1. gin

Irish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Old Irish gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *gan-yo- (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (compare English kin, Latin gignō (“beget, bear”), Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit जनति (janati, “beget”)).

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /ˈɟɪnʲ/

Noun [edit]

gin f (genitive gine, nominative plural ginte)

  1. begetting, birth
  2. fetus
  3. offspring, child, person
  4. generating source

Declension [edit]

Declension of gin

Second declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gin ginte
Vocative a ghin a ghinte
Genitive gine ginte
Dative gin ginte

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an ghin na ginte
Genitive na gine na nginte
Dative leis an ngin

don ghin

 leis na ginte

Derived terms [edit]

Verb [edit]

gin (present analytic gineann, future analytic ginfidh, verbal noun giniúint, past participle ginte)

  1. to give birth to (used only in the autonomous form)
  2. to generate or produce
  3. to beget, procreate
  4. to germinate, sprout or spring forth

Conjugation [edit]

First Conjugation (A)
singular plural autonomous
first second third first second third
indicative present ginim gineann tú;
ginir†		 gineann sé, sí ginimid gineann sibh gineann siad;
ginid†		 gintear
past ghin mé;
ghineas†		 ghin tú;
ghinis†		 ghin sé, sí ghineamar ghin sibh;
ghineabhair†		 ghin siad;
ghineadar†		 gineadh
future ginfidh mé;
ginfead†		 ginfidh tú;
ginfir†		 ginfidh sé, sí ginfimid;
ginfeam†		 ginfidh sibh ginfidh siad;
ginfid†		 ginfear
past habitual ghininn ghinteá ghineadh sé, sí ghinimis ghineadh sibh ghinidís ghintí
imperative ginim gin gineadh sé, sí ginimis ginigí ginidís gintear
conditional ghinfinn ghinfeá ghinfeadh sé, sí ghinfimis ghinfeadh sibh ghinfidís ghinfí
subjunctive present gine mé;
ginead†		 gine tú;
ginir†		 gine sé, sí ginimid gine sibh gine siad;
ginid†		 gintear
past gininn ginteá gineadh sé, sí ginimis gineadh sibh ginidís gintí
verbal noun giniúint
past participle ginte

† Dialect form

Mutation [edit]

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gin ghin ngin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Japanese [edit]

Romanization [edit]

gin

  1. See ぎん

Lojban [edit]

Rafsi [edit]

gin

  1. rafsi of jgina.

Scots [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Apparently reduced from gien (“given”), under the influence of gif.

Pronunciation [edit]

Conjunction [edit]

gin

  1. if (conditional; subjunctive)
    Gin A war ye, A wad gang = If I were you, I would go

Scottish Gaelic [edit]

Verb [edit]

gin (present participle a' gineadh, simple past ghin, past participle ginte)

  1. To generate, reproduce.

Swedish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English gin

Pronunciation [edit]

  • IPA: /jɪn/ or IPA: /dʒɪn/

Noun [edit]

gin n

  1. gin (liquor)

Anagrams [edit]

Wiradhuri [edit]

Noun [edit]

gin

  1. Alternative spelling of geen.
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