loin

See also: loins, lóin, löin, and Łoin

English

A diagram from the United States c. 1918 showing the lines between different cuts of whole sale beef, including the loin.

A diagram by the US educational publisher Pearson Scott Foresman showing terms for different cuts of pork, including the loin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔɪn/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɔɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English loyne, from Old French loigne, from Vulgar Latin *lumbea, from Latin lumbus, of uncertain origin, possibly from Oscan-Umbrian *londwo- or Proto-Germanic *lundwuz, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lendʰ- (“kidney, waist”). Cognate with Old English lendenu, Dutch lende, German Lende, Swedish länd (“haunch, loin”), Danish lænd, Proto-Slavic *lędvьje (Russian ля́двея (ljádveja)). See also lend.

Noun

loin (plural loins)

1. The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips
2. Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal

Usage notes

The plural loins is used for a wider body region, or specifically as a euphemism for the pubic region.

Derived terms

• fruit of one's loins
• gird up one's loins
• line-loin merger
• loincloth
• loin-girding
• loinskin
• pork loin
• short loin
• sirloin
• slack loin
• strip loin
• tenderloin
• tenderloin steak
• top loin

 

Related terms

• lumbago
• lumbar

Translations

part of the body

• Afrikaans: lende
• Azerbaijani: bel (az)
• Bashkir: бил (bil)
• Bulgarian: слабини (bg) f pl (slabini)
• Catalan: llom (ca) m
• Danish: lænd c
• Dutch: (often in the plural: lenden or Archaic lendenen pl) lende (nl)
• Esperanto: lumbo (eo)
• Finnish: kuve (fi)
• French: lombes (fr) m pl
• Galician: lombo (gl) m, lombelo (gl) m
• German: Lende (de) f
• Greek: λαγόνες (el) f pl (lagónes)

  Ancient: ὀσφῦς f (osphûs)

• Hebrew: חֲלָצַיִם (he) m du (ḥalatsáyim)
• Hungarian: ágyék (hu)
• Italian: lombo (it) m
• Japanese: 腰部 (ja) (yōbu)
• Latin: lumbus m
• Macedonian: половина f (polovina)
• Maori: tikihope
• Middle English: loyne, lende (of humans)
• Norwegian: lende (no) m
• Old English: lenden n
• Polish: lędźwie (pl) pl
• Portuguese: lombo (pt) m
• Romanian: șale (ro) f pl
• Russian: поясни́ца (ru) f (pojasníca)
• Serbo-Croatian: hrbat (sh) m, hrptenjača (sh) f, križa (sh) f pl (pluralia tantum)
• Spanish: lomo (es) m
• Swedish: länd (sv) c
• Yiddish: לענד f (lend)

cut of meat

• Bulgarian: филе n (file)
• Catalan: llom (ca) m
• Dutch: lendenstuk (nl) n, carré (nl)
• Esperanto: lumbaĵo
• Finnish: kylki (fi) (beef), kyljysrivi (fi), kyljysselkä (fi) (pork, mutton); kuve (fi), selkä (fi); ranskanpaisti (fi), kylkipaisti
• French: filet (fr) m (in US), côtes premières f pl (in UK)
• Galician: raxo (gl) m, lombo (gl) m
• German: Rippenstück n, Karree (de) n
• Greek: φιλέτο (el) n (filéto)
• Hebrew: יָרֵךְ (he) f (yarékh)
• Italian: lombata f
• Macedonian: каре n (kare)
• Maori: kiko hope
• Middle English: loyne
• Polish: polędwica (pl) f
• Portuguese: lombo (pt) m
• Russian: филе́йная ча́сть f (filéjnaja částʹ)
• Spanish: lomos (es) m
• Swedish: fransyska (sv)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• French: ^{(please verify)} lombe
• Korean: ^{(please verify)} 허리고기 (heorigogi)
• Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 腰部 (zh) (yāobù)

Etymology 2

Noun

loin (plural loins)

1. Misspelling of lion.

Anagrams

• Lion, Nilo-, Olin, lino, lion, noil

Finnish

Verb

loin

1. first-person singular past indicative of luoda

Noun

loin

1. instructive plural of loka

Anagrams

• ilon, lino, olin

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin longē, from the adjective longus (“long, far-off”). Compare Catalan lluny, archaic Spanish lueñe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lwɛ̃/

• audio

  (file)

• Rhymes: -wɛ̃

Adverb

loin

1. far, distant

   Synonym: éloigné

   Antonyms: près, proche

   • 2018, Zaz, On s'en remet jamais:

     Est-ce que les parfums s’évaporent, ou restent-ils dans notre tête comme ces étoiles qui brillent encore, mais qui sont bien loin de la fête ?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 2014, Indila, Égo

     On est loin, on est loin du Jardin d’Éden, éternelle réalité.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1996, Noir Désir, À ton étoile:

     Dis-toi qu’il n’est pas loin, et qu’on y brille, à ton étoile.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   L’église est si loin de l’usine.

   The church is so far from the factory.

Usage notes

• Loin is typically construed with de (“of, from”). Indeed, loin de may be thought of as a single compound preposition; for example, one says loin duquel (“far from which”), not *dont […] loin (“from which […] far”).

Derived terms

• a beau mentir qui vient de loin
• de loin
• il y a loin de la coupe aux lèvres
• la pomme ne tombe jamais loin de l’arbre
• loin de là
• loin des yeux, loin du cœur
• loin s’en faut
• ne pas regarder plus loin que le bout de son nez
• ne pas voir plus loin que le bout de son nez
• revenir de loin

 

Related terms

• éloigner (verb)
• lointain (adjective)

Further reading

• “loin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• lion, Lion

Irish

Alternative forms

• luin (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [l̪ˠɪnˠ]

Noun

loin m

1. genitive singular of lon