shin

See also: Shin, shin-, and shín

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.

Noun

shin (plural shins)

1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

   Synonym: tibia

2. A fishplate for a railway

Related terms

• shinbone

Translations

front part of the leg below the knee

• Afrikaans: skeen, maermerrie
• Arabic: قَصَبَة‎ f (qaṣaba)

  Egyptian Arabic: قصبة الرجل‎ f (ʔaṣabet e-regl)

• Armenian: սրունք (hy) (srunkʿ)
• Belarusian: галёнка f (haljónka), го́лень f (hóljenʹ)
• Bulgarian: пищя́л (bg) m (pištjál)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: canyella (ca) f, canella (ca) f, sec (ca) m, camalló m, espinella (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎬᏓᎨᏂ (asgvdageni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脛／胫 (zh) (jìng), 小腿 (zh) (xiǎotuǐ)

• Coptic: ⲕⲁϣ ⲛⲣⲁⲧ m (kaš nrat)
• Czech: holeň (cs) f
• Danish: skinneben n
• Darkinjung: jarra
• Dutch: scheen (nl) f
• Esperanto: kruro (eo)
• Finnish: sääri (fi)
• French: tibia (fr) m, os long m
• Galician: canela (gl) f
• Georgian: კანჭი (ḳanč̣i), წვივი (c̣vivi)
• German: Schienbein (de) n, Tibia
• Greek: κνήμη (el) f (kními)

  Ancient: κνήμη f (knḗmē)

• Guaraní: kupy
• Hebrew: שוק‎ (he) m (shok)
• Hungarian: sípcsont (hu), lábszár (hu)
• Icelandic: sköflungur (is) m
• Irish: lorga f
• Italian: stinco (it) m, tibia (it) f
• Japanese: 脛 (ja) (すね, sune), 臑 (ja) (すね, sune)
• Kabuverdianu: kanela
• Khmer: ស្មង (km) (smɑɑŋ)
• Korean: 정강이 (ko) (jeonggang'i)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: пи́ска f (píska)
• Maori: tāhau, tātāhau, kauangāwai
• Middle English: schyne
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: adzástis
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skinneben n, skinnebein, tibia

  Nynorsk: skinnebein n, tibia

• Old English: sċinu f
• Ottoman Turkish: اینجك‎ (incik)
• Polish: goleń (pl) f
• Portuguese: canela (pt) f
• Romanian: fluierul piciorului n
• Russian: го́лень (ru) f (gólenʹ)
• Sanskrit: अष्ठीवत् (sa) m (aṣṭhīvat)
• Scottish Gaelic: lurgann f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: голѐњача f, гња̑т m, голен m

  Roman: golènjača (sh) f, gnjȃt (sh) m, golen m

• Slovak: holeň (sk) f
• Slovene: golen f, piščal (sl) m
• Somali: xoog
• Spanish: canilla (es) f, espinilla (es) f, tibia (es) f
• Swedish: skenben (sv) n
• Tagalog: lulod
• Thai: แข้ง (th) (kɛ̂ng)
• Tibetan: ངར་གདུང (ngar gdung)
• Turkish: incik (tr), kaval kemiği (tr)
• Ukrainian: гомі́лка f (homílka)
• Vietnamese: ống quyển (vi)
• Volapük: tibiad
• Welsh: crimog f
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: imbande
• Yagara: buyu
• Yoruba: àgbàkùrójú, ojúgun
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Verb

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

1. (Britain, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

   to shin up a mast

   Synonym: shinny (US)

2. To strike with the shin.
   • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.

3. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
   • 1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser:

     The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

Derived terms

• shinbone
• shin leaf
• shinny
• shin screw
• shin splints

 

Translations

(UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope

• Bulgarian: изкатервам се (izkatervam se)
• Finnish: kivuta (fi), kavuta (fi), kiivetä (fi)
• Russian: кара́бкаться (ru) (karábkatʹsja), лазать (ru) (lazatʹ)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• sheen, šīn

Noun

shin (plural shins)

1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Semitic letter

• Arabic: شِين‎ (šīn)
• Catalan: xin (ca) f
• Finnish: šin
• German: Schin n
• Hebrew: שִׁין‎ (he) (shin)
• Russian: шин (ru) m (šin)
• Turkish: şin (tr)
• Yiddish: שין‎ m or f (shin)

Further reading

• Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hins, Nish, hins, his'n, hisn, nish, sinh

Esperanto

Pronoun

shin

1. H-system spelling of ŝin

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic شِين‎ (šīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃín/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʃɪ́ŋ]

Noun

shin f

1. shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Irish

Pronoun

shin

1. Lenited form of sin.

Japanese

Romanization

shin

1. Rōmaji transcription of しん

Kwama

Noun

shin

1. spear
2. war

References

• Goldberg, Justin; Asadik, Habte; Bekama, Jiregna; Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎^[2], SIL International

Louisiana Creole

Alternative forms

• shyin

Etymology

From French chien (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛ̃/

Noun

shin

1. dog.

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronoun

shin (emphatic shinyn)

1. (personal pronoun) we, us