kain

See also: Kain and käin

English

Etymology

Irish cáin

Noun

kain (countable and uncountable, plural kains)

  1. (Scotland, law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for kain in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Indonesian

Noun

kain (plural kain-kain, first-person possessive kainku, second-person possessive kainmu, third-person possessive kainnya)

  1. cloth
  2. textile

Japanese

Romanization

kain

  1. Rōmaji transcription of かいん

Lubuagan Kalinga

Noun

kain

  1. skirt

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈka.ʔin/
  • Hyphenation: ka‧in

Noun

káin

  1. act or manner of eating or consuming food
  2. mealtime
  3. amount of food eaten at a time
  4. action of a machine (such as a saw, plow, or knife) on a surface
    Synonyms: kagat, talab

Verb

kain (root word)

  1. to eat

Derived terms

See also

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English kind

Noun

kain

  1. kind; type
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