zain

Borrowed from French zain

zain (plural zains)

1. (archaic) A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.
   • 1905, Sir William Ridgeway, The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse

     Azara estimates the proportion of bays amongst these horses to be about ninety to ten zains, that is, entirely dark-coloured without any white; and there is not one black in two thousand; pied and greys occur sometimes […]

• Nazi, azin, nazi, zina

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, hers, its, their own”). Cognate with German sein, Dutch zijn, West Frisian syn, Icelandic sinn.

zain (plural zain, bon/dar zaindarn) (Sette Comuni)

1. his, her, its, their

   Dar zain zun machet in zòllander.

   His son is in the military.

   An tòchtar bon zaindarn ist an léeraren.

   Their daughter is a teacher.

2. his, hers, its, theirs

   De khua ist zain.

   The cow is hers.

• Possessive determiners are only fully inflected when used in exclamations.
• Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
  • The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
• Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
• Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.

• “zain” in Martalar, Umberto Martello; Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Italian zaino

• IPA^(key): /zɛ̃/

zain (feminine singular zaine, masculine plural zains, feminine plural zaines)

1. (of the coat of a horse, dog etc.) Having no white markings