تین

See also: پین, بين, بین, and ب ي ن

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تِين (tīn, “fig”).

Noun

تین • (tin)

1. fig, the fruit of the tree Ficus carica

   Synonym: انجیر (incir)

Descendants

• Turkish: tin

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “tin”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4829
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 422
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Ficus”, 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^[2], Vienna, column 570
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1510
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 620

Torwali

Etymology

From Sanskrit तीक्ष्ण (tīkṣṇa), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tigsnós (“sharp”). Related to تد (tid, “bitter”).

Adjective

تین (tīn)

1. sharp

Urdu

Urdu numbers ^(edit)

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Cardinal: تِین (tīn)     Ordinal: تِیسْرا (tīsrā), تِیجا (tījā), سوم (som)     Multiplier: تِگْنا (tignā), تِہْرا (tihrā)     Collective: تِینوں (tīnõ)     Fractional: تِہائی (tihāī)

Etymology

Inherited from Old Hindi तीनि (tīni), from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀢𑀺𑀡𑁆𑀡𑀺 (tiṇṇi), from Sanskrit त्रीणि n (trīṇi).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪iːn/

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Numeral

تِین • (tīn) (Hindi spelling तीन)

1. three

References

• Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 241
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tráyaḥ”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Further reading

• S. W. Fallon (1879) “تین”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 439
• Platts, John T. (1884) “تین”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 353
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تین”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 211
• “تین”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• John Shakespear (1834) “تین”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 574
• “تین”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.