Kin

English

Noun

Kin (uncountable)

1. One or more relatives, such as siblings or cousins, taken collectively.

Anagrams

• ink

Derived terms

• akin
• kind
• kindred
• kinfolk
• kinship
• kinsman
• kinswoman
• kith and kin
• next of kin

See also

• kith
• clan

External links

• 15px Kin in the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.

Adjective

Kin (not comparable)

1. 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.

Adjectives for Kin

blood; nearest; surviving.

Thesaurus

agnate, ancestry, blood, blood relation, blood relative, bracket, branch, brand, breed, cast, caste, category, character, clan, clansman, class, cognate, collateral, collateral relative, color, connections, consanguine, consanguinean, consanguineous, cousinhood, denomination, description, designation, distaff side, distant relation, division, enate, estate, family, feather, flesh, flesh and blood, folk, folks, form, genre, genus, german, grade, grain, group, grouping, head, heading, ilk, kidney, kind, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, label, level, line, lineage, lot, make, manner, mark, mold, nature, near relation, next of kin, number, order, people, persuasion, phylum, pigeonhole, position, posterity, predicament, race, rank, rating, related, relation, relations, relatives, rubric, section, sept, set, shape, sib, sibling, sort, spear kin, spear side, species, spindle kin, spindle side, stamp, station, status, stock, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, sword side, the like of, the likes of, title, tribe, tribesman, type, uterine kin, variety

Etymology

From Old English cynn from Proto-Germanic *kunjan from Proto-Indo-European *gen- (“produce”). Cognates include Swedish kön and Dutch kunne; and (from Indo-European) Ancient Greek γένος (genos), Latin genus.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kĭn, IPA: /kɪn/, SAMPA: /kIn/

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  Rhymes: -ɪn

Translations

Noun

a relative

Finnish: sukulainen (fi) Greek: συγγενής (el) (sigenís) m. and f. Italian: parente (it) Korean: 친척 (親戚, chincheok) Kurdish: خزم Nahuatl: ueponi Polish: krewny (pl) m.

Portuguese: parente (pt) m. Russian: родня (ru) (rodnjá) m. Scottish Gaelic: cinneadh m., dàimh f., cleamhnas m. Serbian: srod m. Slovene: sorodnik (sl) m., sorodnica (sl) f. Spanish: pariente (es)

relatives collectively

Armenian: ցեղ (hy) (c’eġ), տոհմ (hy) (tohm) Old Armenian: ցեղ (c’eł), տոհմ (tohm), զարմ (zarm) Finnish: suku (fi)

Greek: συγγενείς (el) (sigenís) m. and f. pl., οικογένεια (el) (ikogénia) f. Icelandic: ættmenni (is) n. pl., skyldmenni n. pl. Slovene: sorodstvo (sl) n. !Xóõ: tâa,!kxʻái

Adjective

related by blood or marriage

Finnish: sukua Icelandic: skyldur (is) m., skyld (is) f., skylt (is) n.

Scottish Gaelic: càirdeach (gd) Tamil: கேளிர் (ta)

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Dutch

Noun

Kin m. and f. (plural kinnen, diminutive kinnetje, diminutive plural kinnetjes)

1. (anatomy) chin

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kɪn/

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Ido

Cardinal number

kin

1. five (5)

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Japanese

Noun

Kin (hiragana きん)

1. 金: gold; a piece of gold general in shogi
2. 筋: muscle
3. 勤:
4. 菌:

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Kurdish

Adjective

Kin

1. short

Synonyms

• kurt
• qut
• quse

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Navajo

Noun

Kin

1. market
2. house, cabin
3. town

Pronunciation

• IPA: [kxɪ̀n]

Synonyms

• (town): kin shijaaʼ, kin łání

See also

• hooghan

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Ngarrindjeri

Pronoun

Kin

1. him

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Tai Dam

Verb

Kin

1. to eat

Etymology

Compare Lao ກິນ (kin) and Thai กิน (gin)

References

• http://www.seasite.niu.edu/tai/taidam/alphabet.htm

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West Frisian

Noun

Kin

1. chin

Verb

Kin

1. I can