miskin

English

Etymology

Perhaps music +‎ -kin.

Noun

miskin (plural miskins)

1. (obsolete, music) A little bagpipe.
   • 1593, Michael Drayton, "Pastorals II: The Second Eclogue" (1619 edition)[1]:

     Now would I tune my Miskins on this Greene,

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “miskin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Kinism, simkin

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Azerbaijani

Etymology

From Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

miskin (comparative daha miskin, superlative ən miskin)

1. wretched

   Synonyms: binəva, zavallı

Derived terms

• miskinlik

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Malay

Etymology

From Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn).

Adjective

miskin

1. poor, needy, unfortunate, impoverished

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Maltese

Root
m-s-k-n
4 terms

Etymology

From Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɪsˈkiːn/

Adjective

miskin (feminine singular miskina, plural msieken, diminutive msejken)

1. poor (inspiring pity)

   Synonym: povru

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Maranao

Etymology

From Malay miskin, from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn).

Adjective

miskin

1. poor, needy

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Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish مسكین (“poor; pitiful; leprous”), from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [miscin]
• Hyphenation: mis‧kin

Adjective

miskin

1. idle; tending to sloth
2. (obsolete) poor, unfortunate

See also

• tembel
• zavallı
• aciz

References

• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مسكین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1167
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “miskin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük