cin

See also: cín, čin, cɨn, çıñ, čiŋ, and Çin

Esperanto

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Pronoun

cin (ci)

  1. (archaic) thee, you

Hungarian

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sin]

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German, more specifically from High German. Compare German Zinn.[1] Ultimately, from Old High German zin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Noun

cin (plural cinek)

  1. tin
    Synonym: ón
Declension
Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative cin cinek
accusative cint cineket
dative cinnek cineknek
instrumental cinnel cinekkel
causal-final cinért cinekért
translative cinné cinekké
terminative cinig cinekig
essive-formal cinként cinekként
essive-modal — —
inessive cinben cinekben
superessive cinen cineken
adessive cinnél cineknél
illative cinbe cinekbe
sublative cinre cinekre
allative cinhez cinekhez
elative cinből cinekből
delative cinről cinekről
ablative cintől cinektől
Possessive forms of cin
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. cinem cinjeim
2nd person sing. cined cinjeid
3rd person sing. cinje cinjei
1st person plural cinünk cinjeink
2nd person plural cinetek cinjeitek
3rd person plural cinjük cinjeik
Derived terms
  • cinez

(Compound words):

Etymology 2

An onomatopoeia.

Interjection

cin

  1. squeak (imitative of a short, high-pitched sound of a mouse; can be used repetitively)
    • 1845, Hans Christian Andersen, “A fenyőfa (The Fir Tree)”, in Hans Christian Andersen meséi‎, →ISBN:
      Cin, cin! - cincogta egy előiramodó egérke.
      “Squeak, squeak,” said a little mouse.

See also

References
  1. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN

Old English

Noun

cin

  1. Alternative form of cinn: chin.
    • 1876, "C" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. IV, p. 616:
      Our English ch (pronounced tch) for original c (as in chin for Old English cin, child for cild) is due probably to Norman influence, but here, as often, it is difficult to differentiate the results of the many disturbing causes which have operated upon our language.

Tatar

Noun

cin

  1. sleeve

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish [Term?], from Arabic جِنّ‎ (jinn).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [d͡ʒin]

Noun

cin (definite accusative cini, plural cinler)

  1. genie

Declension
Inflection
Nominative cin
Definite accusative cini
Singular Plural
Nominative cin cinler
Definite accusative cini cinleri
Dative cine cinlere
Locative cinde cinlerde
Ablative cinden cinlerden
Genitive cinin cinlerin
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular cinim cinlerim
2nd singular cinin cinlerin
3rd singular cini cinleri
1st plural cinimiz cinlerimiz
2nd plural cininiz cinleriniz
3rd plural cinleri cinleri
Predicative forms
Singular Plural
1st singular cinim cinlerim
2nd singular cinsin cinlersin
3rd singular cin
cindir		 cinler
cinlerdir
1st plural ciniz cinleriz
2nd plural cinsiniz cinlersiniz
3rd plural cinler cinlerdir

Vilamovian

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Verb

cīn

  1. to pull
  2. to draw

Volapük

Noun

cin (plural cins)

  1. machine

Declension
declension of cin
singular plural
nominative cin cins
genitive cina cinas
dative cine cines
accusative cini cinis
vocative 1 o cin! o cins!
predicative 2 cinu cinus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in some later, non-classical Volapük only
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