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See also: PIN, pīn, pín, pǐn, pìn, pîn, and piņ

English

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pins (sharpened steel wire with a head)

Etymology

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.

No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather.

Pronunciation

  • enPR: pĭn, IPA(key): /pɪn/, [pʰɪn]
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  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophone: pen (pin-pen merger)

Noun

pin (plural pins)

  1. A sewing pin or ballhead pin: a needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
    • (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
  2. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
  3. A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
    Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
  4. (wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
  5. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
  7. (informal, in the plural) A leg.
    I'm not so good on my pins these days.
  8. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
    The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.
  9. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
  10. (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
    Synonyms: badge, lapel pin
  11. (chess) A scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to attack.
  12. (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
  13. (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
    The shot landed right on the pin.
    • (Can we date this quote by William Shakespeare and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      the very pin of his heart cleft
  14. (dated) A mood, a state of being.
    • (Can we date this quote by Cowper and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      a merry pin
  15. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
  16. (medicine, obsolete) caligo
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
  17. A thing of small value; a trifle.
    • (Can we date this quote by Spectator and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)
      He […] did not care a pin for her.
  18. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
  19. (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
  20. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
  21. (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
  22. (informal) A pinball machine.
    I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.

Synonyms

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Terms derived from pin (noun)

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Translations

jewellery attached with a pin — see brooch
medicine: caligo — see caligo
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See also

Verb

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

  1. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
  2. (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
  3. (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
  4. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
  5. (computing, graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, etc.) to another item.
    to pin a window to the Taskbar
  6. (computing, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
    When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
  7. Alternative form of peen

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

pin m (plural pins)

  1. (electronics) lead
  2. pin (ornament)

Chuukese

Adjective

pin

  1. holy

Synonyms

Cornish

Noun

pin f (singulative pinen)

  1. pines

Synonyms

Danish

Verb

pin

  1. (deprecated template usage) imperative of pine

Dutch

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *pinnaz *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- 'protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge'. Cognate with English pin, Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pin f (plural pinnen, diminutive pinnetje n)

  1. peg, pin

Etymology 2

Abbreviation

Noun

pin

  1. Abbreviation of persoonlijk identificatienummer.

Etymology 3

Verb

pin

  1. (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of pinnen
  2. (deprecated template usage) imperative of pinnen

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From Old French pin, from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pin m (plural pins)

  1. pine, pine tree

Further reading

Friulian

Etymology

From Latin pīnus.

Noun

pin m (plural pins)

  1. pine tree

Japanese

Romanization

pin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ピン

Latvian

Verb

pin

  1. (deprecated template usage) 2nd person singular present indicative form of pīt
  2. (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular present indicative form of pīt
  3. (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural present indicative form of pīt
  4. (deprecated template usage) 2nd person singular imperative form of pīt
  5. (with the particle lai) (deprecated template usage) 3rd person singular imperative form of pīt
  6. (with the particle lai) (deprecated template usage) 3rd person plural imperative form of pīt

Mandarin

Romanization

pin

  1. Nonstandard spelling of pīn.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of pín.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of pǐn.
  4. Nonstandard spelling of pìn.

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Mapudungun

Verb

pin (using Raguileo Alphabet)

  1. To say
  2. To tell (a story).
  3. first-person singular realis form of pin

Synonyms

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

Noun

pin m (plural pini)

  1. pine

Declension

Declension of pin
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) pin pinul (niște) pini pinii
genitive/dative (unui) pin pinului (unor) pini pinilor
vocative pinule pinilor

See also

Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun) pign
  • (Sursilvan) pégn
  • (Sutsilvan, Surmiran) pegn

Etymology

From Latin pīnus.

Noun

pin m

  1. (Puter, Vallader) spruce, fir

Synonyms

Seta

Noun

pin

  1. woman

References

  • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

Spanish

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pin

Noun

pin m (plural pines)

  1. pin, lapel pin
  2. (electricity) pin (any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector)

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English PIN, acronym of personal identification number

Alternative forms

Noun

pin m (plural pines)

  1. PIN, PIN number

Swedish

Etymology 1

Clipping of pinsam, with the same meaning.

Pronunciation

Adjective

pin (comparative mer pin, superlative mest pin)

  1. (colloquial) embarrasing
    Så jäkla pin asså!
    So f--ing embarrassing!
Declension

Invariable, not used in the definite form.

Etymology 2

From pina.

Pronunciation

Noun

pin

  1. pain, torment
Derived terms

Adverb

pin (not comparable)

  1. (colloquial) very, really, super-
    Synonyms: jätte-, väldigt
Derived terms

Etymology 4

Borrowed from English pin.

Pronunciation

Noun

pin n

  1. Alternative form of pins
Usage notes

The form with -s is recommended since it's easier to decline in Swedish.

References

Turkish

Alternative forms

  • pim (Van)
  • pindik (Çorum)
  • pine (Kahramanmaraş, Sivas, Yozgat, Nevşehir, Adana)
  • pinelik (Ankara, Gümüşhane, Kayseri)
  • pines (Trabzon, Rize, Tekirdağ, Ankara, Adana)
  • pineslik (Ankara)
  • pinez (Trabzon)
  • pinezlik (Giresun)
  • pinlik (Kastamonu, Çorum, Sinop, Samsun, Tokat, Kırşehir, Kayserii)

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Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پین (pin), borrowed from a dialectal form of Armenian բույն (buyn, “nest”).

Noun

pin (definite accusative pini, plural pinler)

  1. (dialectal) coop for poultry

Declension

Inflection
Nominative pin
Definite accusative pini
Singular Plural
Nominative pin pinler
Definite accusative pini pinleri
Dative pine pinlere
Locative pinde pinlerde
Ablative pinden pinlerden
Genitive pinin pinlerin
Possessive forms
Nominative
Singular Plural
1st singular pinim pinlerim
2nd singular pinin pinlerin
3rd singular pini pinleri
1st plural pinimiz pinlerimiz
2nd plural pininiz pinleriniz
3rd plural pinleri pinleri
Definite accusative
Singular Plural
1st singular pinimi pinlerimi
2nd singular pinini pinlerini
3rd singular pinini pinlerini
1st plural pinimizi pinlerimizi
2nd plural pininizi pinlerinizi
3rd plural pinlerini pinlerini
Dative
Singular Plural
1st singular pinime pinlerime
2nd singular pinine pinlerine
3rd singular pinine pinlerine
1st plural pinimize pinlerimize
2nd plural pininize pinlerinize
3rd plural pinlerine pinlerine
Locative
Singular Plural
1st singular pinimde pinlerimde
2nd singular pininde pinlerinde
3rd singular pininde pinlerinde
1st plural pinimizde pinlerimizde
2nd plural pininizde pinlerinizde
3rd plural pinlerinde pinlerinde
Ablative
Singular Plural
1st singular pinimden pinlerimden
2nd singular pininden pinlerinden
3rd singular pininden pinlerinden
1st plural pinimizden pinlerimizden
2nd plural pininizden pinlerinizden
3rd plural pinlerinden pinlerinden
Genitive
Singular Plural
1st singular pinimin pinlerimin
2nd singular pininin pinlerinin
3rd singular pininin pinlerinin
1st plural pinimizin pinlerimizin
2nd plural pininizin pinlerinizin
3rd plural pinlerinin pinlerinin
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular pinim pinlerim
2nd singular pinsin pinlersin
3rd singular pin
pindir 		pinler
pinlerdir
1st plural piniz pinleriz
2nd plural pinsiniz pinlersiniz
3rd plural pinler pinlerdir

Synonyms

References

  • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բոյն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
  • “pin”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

Vietnamese

Etymology

Borrowed from French pile.

Pronunciation

Noun

(classifier cục) pin

  1. a battery
  2. the amount of electricity that a battery holds
    Điện thoại tao hết pin rồi.
    My phone is dead.
    (literally, “My phone has run out of "battery".”)

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation 1

Etymology

From Latin pīnus (compare Middle Irish pín).

Noun 1

pin m (uncountable)

  1. pine (tree or wood)

Usage notes

Modern Welsh orthography prefers the form pin to (dated) pîn.

Synonyms

Derived terms

Pronunciation 2

Noun

pin m (plural pinnau)

  1. (dated) Alternative form of pìn

Usage notes

Modern Welsh orthography uses pìn instead of older pin.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
pin bin mhin phin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “pin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

Yapese

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman”).

Pronunciation

Noun

pin

  1. woman
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