قین

See also: قين, فين, and قئن

Ottoman Turkish

قین

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *kï̄n (“sheath, scabbard”); cognate with Azerbaijani qın, Bashkir ҡын (qın), Chuvash йӗнӗ (jĕnĕ), Kazakh қын (qyn), Kyrgyz кын (kın), Turkmen gyn, Uyghur قىن (qin), Uzbek qin and Yakut кыын (kïïn).

Noun

قین • (kın)

1. sheath, scabbard, a holster for a sword

   Synonyms: جفن (cefn), غلف (gılıf)

Derived terms

• قینلاتمق (kınlatmak, “to make or let be sheathed”)
• قینلامق (kınlamak, “to sheathe a knife or sword”)
• قینلانمق (kınlanmak, “to become furnished with a sheath”)

Descendants

• Turkish: kın
• → Armenian: խըն (xən), ղին (ġin), կըն (kən)
• → Bulgarian: кания (kanija)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “kın1”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2608
• Hindoglu, Artin (1838), “قین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎^[1], Vienna: F. Beck, page 381a
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “قین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1002
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Vagina”, 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 1712
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “قین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3829
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “kın”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “قین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1510

Persian

Etymology 1

Compare Persian کون (kun, “buttocks”) and dialectal Persian کین (kin, “buttocks”).

Noun

قین • (qin) (dialectal)

1. arse, ass

   می قینم درد می‌کنه؟

2. anus

Etymology 2

From a Turkic source: compare Turkish kıyın, Turkmen kyn, Uzbek qiyin.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ˈqajn/, /ˈqiːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäjn], [qiːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qäjn], [qiːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qäjn], [qiːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qäjn], [qin]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qejn], [qiːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qin]

Readings
Classical reading?	qayn, qīn
Dari reading?	qayn, qīn
Iranian reading?	ġeyn, ġin
Tajik reading?	qin

Adjective

قین • (qīn, qayn / ġin, ġeyn) (comparative قین‌تَر, superlative قین‌تَرین, Tajik spelling қин)

1. (Tajik) difficult, hard

   Synonyms: سخت (saxt), دشوار (dušwār / došvâr)

Noun

قین • (qīn, qayn / ġin, ġeyn) (Tajik spelling қин)

1. torture, torment

   Synonyms: عذاب (azāb / azâb), شکنجه (šikanja / šekanje)