kain

See also: Kain and käin

English

Etymology

Irish cáin

Noun

kain (countable and uncountable, plural kains)

1. (Scotland, law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “kain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Akin, Inka, Kian, Naik, akin, kina, naik

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Indonesian

Noun

kain (first-person possessive kainku, second-person possessive kainmu, third-person possessive kainnya)

1. cloth
2. textile

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Japanese

Romanization

kain

1. Rōmaji transcription of かいん

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Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

kain

1. skirt

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈka.ʔin/
• Hyphenation: ka‧in

Noun

káin

1. act or manner of eating or consuming food
2. mealtime
3. amount of food eaten at a time
4. action of a machine (such as a saw, plow, or knife) on a surface

   Synonyms: kagat, talab

Verb

1. to eat

Derived terms

• ikain
• ipangkain
• kainan
• kainin
• kumain
• magpakain
• makain
• makakain
• makikain
• mangain
• pagkain

 

See also

• lamon

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

English kind

Noun

kain

1. kind; type

Related terms

• kain kain
• narakain
• olkain