این

See also: أين and اين

Ottoman Turkish

این

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *īn (“lair, burrow”); cognate with Old Turkic 𐰃𐰤 (in), Kazakh ін (ın), Southern Altai ийин (iyin), Turkmen hīn, Uzbek in and Yakut иин (iin).

Noun

این • (in) (definite accusative اینی (ini), plural اینلر (inler))

1. den, lair, burrow, luster, any small cave or hollow place used by an animal for shelter or concealment

   Synonyms: جحر (cuhr), عرین (ʼarin), كنام (künâm)

Derived terms

• اینجكز (incegiz, “small den or lair”)

Descendants

• Turkish: in
• → Armenian: ին (in)

Further reading

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• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “این”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 242
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “in3”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2166
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “این”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 96a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “این”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 226
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Specus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1581
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “این”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 614
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “in”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “این”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 308

Persian

Alternative forms

• ای (i) (dialectal, Dashtestan, Bushehr, Kabuli, Mashhad, Shiraz, Kazerun)

Etymology

From Middle Persian 𐭦𐭭𐭤 (ēn). Compare Mazanderani ام (am), Central Kurdish ئەم (em), Northern Kurdish ev, Alviri-Vidari ام (am). Possibly related to Sanskrit एन (ena)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈʔiːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔiː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔin]

Readings
Classical reading?	īn
Dari reading?	īn
Iranian reading?	in
Tajik reading?	in

• Audio (Iran):

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Determiner

Dari	این
Iranian Persian
Tajik	ин

این • (in)

1. this
2. these

See also

• آن (ân), اون (on)