kin

See also: kín, -kin, and kin-

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭn, IPA^(key): /kɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English kin, kyn, ken, kun, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank, quality, family, generation, offspring, pedigree, kin, race, people, gender, sex, propriety, etiquette”), from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”). Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), German Künne, Kunne (“kin, kind, race”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).

Noun

kin (uncountable)

1. Race; family; breed; kind.
2. (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
   • Francis Bacon

     You are of kin, and so a friend to their persons.

3. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
4. Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
5. Kind; sort; manner; way.

Derived terms

• akin
• kind
• kindred
• kinfolk
• kinship
• kinsman
• kinswoman
• kith and kin
• next of kin

See also

• kith
• clan

External links

• Kin in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Translations

relative — see relative

relatives collectively

• Armenian: ցեղ (cʿeł), տոհմ (tohm)

  Old Armenian: ցեղ (cʿeł), տոհմ (tohm), զարմ (zarm)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 親屬, 亲属 (zh) (qīnshǔ), 親族 (zh), 亲族 (zh) (qīnzú)

• Dutch: verwanten (nl)
• Faroese: ættarfólk n pl
• Finnish: suku (fi)
• French: proches (fr) m pl, parenté (fr) f
• German: Verwandtschaft (de) f, Verwandte (de) pl
• Greek: συγγενείς (el) m pl, f pl (syngeneís), οικογένεια (el) f (oikogéneia)

• Hungarian: rokonság (hu)
• Icelandic: ættmenni n pl, skyldmenni n pl
• Japanese: 親族 (ja) (しんぞく, shinzoku)
• Portuguese: parentagem f
• Russian: родня (ru) f (rodnjá), родственники (ru) m pl (ródstvenniki), родичи (ru) m pl (ródiči), сородичи (ru) m pl (soródiči)
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas m
• Slovene: sorodstvo n
• ǃXóõ: tâa, ǃkxʻái

Adjective

kin (not comparable)

1. Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".

   It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.

Translations

related by blood or marriage

• Finnish: see: olla sukua (not an adjective in Finnish)
• French: apparenté (fr)
• Icelandic: skyldur
• Portuguese: aparentado

• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeach
• Tamil: கேளிர் (ta) (kēḷir)

Etymology 2

Noun

kin (plural kins)

1. A primitive Chinese musical instrument of the cittern kind, with from five to twenty-five silken strings.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Riemann to this entry?)

   • 1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository (page 40)

     If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.

Anagrams

• ink

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch kinne, from Old Dutch kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵénu-, *ǵénus. Compare Low German and German Kinn, English chin, Danish kind, Icelandic kinn.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪn
• IPA^(key): /kɪn/

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Noun

kin f (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje n)

1. (anatomy) chin

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Hungarian

Pronoun

kin

1. superessive singular of ki

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Ido

Cardinal numeral

kin

1. five (5)

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Japanese

See also kiin

Romanization

kin

1. rōmaji reading of きん

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Kurdish

Adjective

kin ?

1. short

Synonyms

• kurt
• qut
• quse

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Lojban

Rafsi

kin

1. rafsi of skina.

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Navajo

Etymology

Compare Dogrib kǫ̀.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kxɪ̀n]

Noun

kin

1. market
2. house, cabin, building
3. town

Inflection

possessives of kin

	singular	duoplural	plural
1st person	shikin	nihikin	danihikin
2nd person	nikin	nihikin	danihikin
3rd person	bikin
4th person (3o)	yikin
4th person (3a)	hakin
Indefinite (3i)	akin

Synonyms

• (town): kin shijaaʼ, kin łání

See also

• hooghan

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Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

kin

1. him

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Tai Dam

Etymology

Compare Lao ກິນ (kin) and Thai กิน (gin).

Verb

kin

1. to eat

References

• http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/taidam/alphabet.htm

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West Frisian

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German kinne, kin, from Old Saxon kinni, from Proto-Germanic *kinnuz. Compare also Dutch kin. Compare Old Frisian zin, English chin.

Noun

kin

1. chin

Etymology 2

Verb

kin

1. I can