From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h₁yom, from *ǵenh₁- (“to produce”).
Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).
kin (countable and uncountable, plural kins or kin)
- Race; family; breed; kind.
- (collectively) Persons of the same race or family; kindred.
- One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.
2016, Saraswati Raju, Santosh Jatrana, Women Workers in Urban India, page 280:Among those who derive information related to work from personal contacts, nonkins, rather than kins, constitute the most important sources even for women.
- Relationship; same-bloodedness or affinity; near connection or alliance, as of those having common descent.
1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XIII, in Mansfield Park: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 248:Such sensations, however, were too near a kin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
relatives collectively
- Arabic: أَهْل m (ʔahl), أَقَارِب pl (ʔaqārib)
- Gulf Arabic: اهل (ahal)
- Armenian: ցեղ (hy) (cʻeġ), տոհմ (hy) (tohm), ազգուտակ (hy) (azgutak)
- Old Armenian: ցեղ (cʻeł), տոհմ (tohm), զարմ (zarm)
- Belarusian: радня́ (radnjá)
- Bulgarian: род (bg) m (rod)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 親屬/亲属 (zh) (qīnshǔ), 親族/亲族 (zh) (qīnzú)
- Dutch: verwanten (nl)
- Faroese: ættarfólk n pl
- Finnish: suku (fi)
- French: proches m pl, parenté (fr) f
- Georgian: ნათესაობა (natesaoba), მოდგმა (modgma), ჩამომავლობა (čamomavloba)
- German: Verwandtschaft (de) f, Verwandte (de) pl
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌹 n (kuni)
- Greek: συγγενείς m pl or f pl (syngeneís), οικογένεια (el) f (oikogéneia)
- Hungarian: rokonság (hu)
- Icelandic: ættmenni n pl, skyldmenni n pl
- Japanese: 親族 (ja) (しんぞく, shinzoku)
- Korean: 친족 (ko) (chinjok)
- Maori: ngare, huānga
- Middle English: kynrede, kyn
- Portuguese: parentes (pt), parentagem
- Russian: родня́ (ru) f (rodnjá), ро́дственники m pl (ródstvenniki), ро́дичи m pl (ródiči), соро́дичи m pl (soródiči)
- Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas m
- Slovene: sorodstvo n
- Spanish: parentaje m
- Tagalog: hinlog
- Turkish: akraba (tr)
- Ukrainian: рідня́ f (ridnjá), ро́дичі m pl (ródyči)
- ǃXóõ: tâa, ǃkxʻái
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kin (not comparable)
- Related by blood or marriage, akin. Generally used in "kin to".
- It turns out my back-fence neighbor is kin to one of my co-workers.
Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).
kin (plural kins)
- Alternative form of qin (“Chinese string instrument”)
1899, Hugo Riemann, Catechism of Musical History: History of musical instruments and history of tone-systems and notation:Originally they had only two cither-like instruments, which had flat sound-boxes without fingerboards, over which were strung rather a large number (25) of strings of twisted silk — the kin and tsche.
1840, Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Williams, The Chinese Repository, page 40:If a musician were going to give a lecture upon the mathematical part of his art, he would find a very elegant substitute for the monochord in the Chinese kin.
Clipping of fictionkin.
kin (third-person singular simple present kins, present participle kinning, simple past and past participle kinned)
- (transitive, fandom slang) To identify with; as in spiritually connect to a fictional or non-fictional being.
kin (plural kins or kin)
- (fandom slang) A fictional or non-fictional being whom one spiritually connects to. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (fandom slang, in the form (character name) kin) Someone who identifies with a certain fictional character.
- Alternative form: kinnie
kin (plural kins)
- Alternative form of k'in
kin
- Pronunciation spelling of can.
1959 January 5, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 4:[Owl:] Oh I ain't stealin' this dime... I just took it for safe-keepin'.
[Turtle:] Ain't much you kin do with it—'cept make a phone call.
kin (uncountable)
- (colloquial) Short for kinesiology.
Guinea-Bissau Creole
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For pronunciation and definitions of kin – see 斤 (“catty, a unit of weight”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 斤). |
kin
- Alternative form of kyn
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish كین (kin, “a grudge, concealed desire of revenge, malice”),.[1][2] from Persian كین (kin) or کینه (kine, “hatred, rancour, malevolence”)[3]
- IPA(key): /ˈcin/, (definite accusative) /ciːˈni/
- Hyphenation: kin
kin (definite accusative kini, plural kinler)
- grudge, desire to take revenge
- Synonym: garaz
- ^ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “كین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1615
- ^ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “كین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1069
- ^ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
kin
- Alternative form of ginn.
kin
- Alternative form of ken
1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:Heal, griue, an kin, apaa thee, graacuse Forth,- Health, wealth, and regard upon thee, gracious Forth,
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 49