tin

See also: тин, Tin, TIN, tín, țin, -tin, and tiⁿ

English

Chemical element
Sn
Previous: indium (In)
Next: antimony (Sb)

Etymology

From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

enPR: tĭn, IPA^(key): /tɪn/, [tʰɪn]
Audio (US) (file)
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Rhymes: -ɪn
Homophones: thin (with th-stopping), ten (with pin-pen merger)

Noun

tin (countable and uncountable, plural tins)

(uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
(New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, Britain, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish
Several tins of paint were needed to paint the house.
empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.
- 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:
  When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
(countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, etc.
muffin tin
roasting tin
baking tin
(countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
(slang, dated, uncountable) money, especially silver money.
- 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby
  The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know
- 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder (page 377)
  When all your tin is gone and spent, / And you've not a mag for bread or rent
(slang, uncountable) computer hardware.

Synonyms

(airtight container): can (especially US), tin can

Derived terms

Terms derived from tin

alpha tin
beta tin
black tin
gray tin, grey tin
indium tin oxide
lead-tin
organotin
tetraethyl tin, tetraethyltin
tetraphenyl tin, tetraphenyltin
tin bath
tin can
tin chloride
tin cry
tin dichloride
tin dioxide
tin disease
tin foil
tinless
tin Lizzie
tin man
tinnie
tinny
tin oxide
tin pentachloride
tin pest
tin protochloride
tin salt
tin snips
tin tabernacle
tin tetrachloride
tin tetraethyl
tin tetraphenyl
tin-plate
tin-plated
tin-white cobalt
tributyl tin, tributyltin
trimethyl tin, trimethyltin
(do) what it says on the tin
white tin

Translations

element

Afrikaans: tin (af)
Albanian: kalaj m
Amharic: ቆርቆሮ (ḳorḳoro)
Arabic: قَصْدِير‎ m (qaṣdīr)
Egyptian Arabic: صفيح‎ m (ṣafīḥ)
Hijazi Arabic: قَصْدير‎ m (gaṣdīr)
Moroccan Arabic: قزدير‎ m (qazdīr)
Armenian: անագ (hy) (anag)
Assamese: ৰাং (raṅ)
Asturian: estañu (ast) m
Avar: гъалай (ğalaj)
Azerbaijani: qalay (az)
Basque: eztainua
Belarusian: во́лава f (vólava)
Bengali: টিন (ṭin)
Breton: staen (br) m
Bulgarian: кала́й (bg) m (kaláj)
Burmese: သံဖြူ (my) (samhpru)
Catalan: estany (ca) m
Central Melanau: timah
Chinese:
Mandarin: 錫／锡 (zh) (xí)
Coptic: ⲃⲁⲥⲛϭ (basnc) (Sahidic), ⲑⲣⲁⲛ (thran) (Bohairic)
Cornish: sten
Czech: cín (cs) m
Danish: tin (da) n
Dargwa: къалай (ɢalaj)
Dutch: tin (nl) n
Esperanto: stano (eo)
Estonian: tina (et)
Faroese: tin
Finnish: tina (fi)
French: étain (fr) m
Friulian: stagn
Galician: estaño (gl) m
Georgian: კალა (ka) (ḳala)
German: Zinn (de) n
Greek: κασσίτερος (el) m (kassíteros)
Ancient: κασσίτερος m (kassíteros)
Hebrew: בְּדִיל‎ (he) m (b’dil)
Hindi: त्रपु (hi) m (trapu)
Hungarian: ón (hu), cin (hu), bádog (hu)
Iban: bangkang, bangkoh
Icelandic: tin (is) n
Ido: stano (io)
Indonesian: timah (id)
Interlingua: stanno
Irish: stán (ga)
Italian: stagno (it) m
Japanese: 錫 (ja) (すず, suzu), スズ (ja) (suzu)
Javanese: ꦠꦶꦩꦃ (jv) (timah)
Kannada: ತವರ (kn) (tavara)
Kashubian: cëna
Kazakh: қалайы (kk) (qalaiy)
Khmer: សំណប៉ាហាំង (sɑmnɑɑ paahang), ប៉ាហាំង (km) (paahang)
Korean: 주석 (ko) (juseok), 동납철 (dongnapcheol), 석 (ko) (seok)
Kyrgyz: калай (ky) (kalay)
Lao: ຊືນ (lo) (sư̄n), ດີບຸກ (dī buk)
Latin: stannum (la) n
Latvian: alva f
Lezgi: къеле (q̄ele)
Lithuanian: alavas (lt) m
Low German:
German Low German: Tinn n
Luxembourgish: Zënn (lb)
Macedonian: калај m (kalaj)
Malay: stanum, timah (ms)
Malayalam: വെളുത്തീയം (ml) (veḷuttīyaṃ), തകരം (ml) (takaraṃ)
Maltese: landa
Manchu: ᡨᠣᡥᠣᠯᠣᠨ (toholon)
Mansi: а̄нах (ānah)
Manx: stainney
Mongolian: тугалга (mn) (tugalga)
Nahuatl: amochitl
Nanai: тохолгон
Navajo: béésh dildǫʼí
Norwegian: tinn (no)
Occitan: estanh (oc) m
Old English: tin n
Oromo: qorqorroo
Ossetian:
Digor: дзӕхуӕ (ʒæxwæ)
Iron: къала (k’ala)
Ottoman Turkish: قالای‎ (kalay)
Persian: قلع‎ (fa) (qal'), ارزیز‎ (fa) (arziz)
Plautdietsch: Blajch n
Polish: cyna (pl) f
Portuguese: estanho (pt) m
Rohingya: zermóuni
Romanian: staniu (ro) n, cositor (ro) n
Russian: о́лово (ru) n (ólovo), ста́ннум (ru) m (stánnum)
Santali: ᱴᱤᱬ (ṭiṇ)
Scottish Gaelic: staoin
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: калај m
Roman: kalaj (sh) m, kositar (sh) m (Croatia)
Slovak: cín (sk)
Slovene: kositer (sl) m, cin (sl) m
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: cen m
Upper Sorbian: cyn m
Southern Altai: калай (kalay), телеҥир (teleŋir)
Spanish: estaño (es) m
Sumerian: 𒀭𒈾 (anna)
Sundanese: ᮒᮤᮙᮂ (timah)
Swedish: tenn (sv) n
Tagalog: tinggaputi
Tajik: қалъ (qalʾ)
Tamil: தகரம் (ta) (takaram)
Tatar: аккургаш (tt) (aqkurgaş)
Ternate: beleki
Thai: ดีบุก (th) (dii-bùk)
Tiwi: kilupi
Tok Pisin: tin
Turkish: kalay (tr)
Turkmen: galaýy
Ukrainian: о́лово (uk) (ólovo)
Uyghur: قەلەي‎ (qeley)
Uzbek: kalay (uz)
Cyrillic: калай (kalay)
Vietnamese: thiếc (vi)
Vilamovian: cejn
Welsh: tùn
West Frisian: tin
Yiddish: בלעך‎ n (blekh)

airtight container

Arabic: صَفِيحَة‎ f (ṣafīḥa)
Belarusian: бляша́нка f (bljašánka), кансе́рва f (kansjérva)
Bengali: টিন (ṭin)
Bulgarian: консе́рва (konsérva)
Catalan: llauna (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 罐頭／罐头 (zh) (guàntou, guàntóu)
Czech: plechovka (cs), konzerva (cs)
Danish: konservesdåse c
Dutch: blik (nl) n, conservenblik (nl) n
Finnish: säilyketölkki (fi), säilykepurkki
French: conserve (fr) f, boîte de conserve (fr) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Büchse (de) f, Konservenbüchse (de) f, Blechbüchse f, Dose (de) f, Konservendose (de) f
Greek: κονσέρβα (el) f (konsérva)
Hindi: टिन m (ṭin)
Hungarian: konzerv (hu), konzervdoboz (hu), bádogdoboz (hu), fémdoboz, doboz (hu)
Indonesian: kaleng (id)
Italian: lattina (it) f, barattolo (it) m
Japanese: 罐詰 (かんずめ, kanzume), 缶 (ja) (かん, kan)
Khmer: កំប៉ុង (km) (kɑmpong), កំប៉ុងសំណប៉ាហាំង (kɑmpoŋ sɑmnɑɑ paahaŋ)
Kikuyu: mũkebe class 3
Korean: 깡통 (ko) (kkangtong)
Lao: ກະປ໋ອງ (ka pǭng)
Latvian: konservu kārba f
Macedonian: лименка f (limenka), конзе́рва f (konzérva)
Malay: tin
Meru: mkebe
Norman: tinne f
Ottoman Turkish: تنكه‎ (teneke)
Persian: حلب‎ (fa) (halab), قوطی‎ (fa) (quti)
Polish: puszka (pl) f, konserwa (pl) f
Portuguese: lata (pt) f
Russian: жестя́нка (ru) f (žestjánka), консе́рвная ба́нка (ru) f (konsérvnaja bánka), консе́рва f (konsérva)
Scottish Gaelic: cana (gd) m, canastair m
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: ліменка f, конзерва f
Roman: limenka (sh) f, konzerva (sh) f
Slovak: plechovka f
Slovene: pločevinka (sl) f
Spanish: lata (es) f
Swahili: mkebe (sw)
Swedish: konserv (sv) c, konservburk (sv) c
Tagalog: lata
Thai: กระป๋อง (th) (grà-bpɔ̌ng), ปี๊บ (bpíip)
Tok Pisin: tin
Ukrainian: бляша́нка (uk) f (bljašánka), консе́рва f (konsérva)
Vietnamese: hộp (vi)

metal pan

Belarusian: бля́ха f (bljáxa)
Bulgarian: тига́н (bg) m (tigán)
Czech: plech (cs) m
Dutch: bakvorm (nl) m (for baking), taartvorm (nl) m (for cakes)
Finnish: vuoka (fi)
French: moule (fr) m, gamelle (fr) f
German: Backform (de) f (for baking), Kastenform f (for cakes), Kuchenform (de) f (for cakes)
Greek: ταψί (el) n (tapsí)
Hungarian: tepsi (hu)
Italian: gamella (it) f
Polish: blacha (pl) f
Portuguese: lata (pt) f, forma (pt) f, tarteira f
Russian: жесть (ru) f (žestʹ)
Slovak: plech m
Ukrainian: жерсть f (žerstʹ), бля́ха (uk) f (bljáxa)

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Breton: ^{(please verify)} boest (br) f, ^{(please verify)} boestoù pl, (2) ^{(please verify)} boest mir
Georgian: ^{(please verify)} კოლოფი (ḳolopi), ^{(please verify)} ქილა (kila)
Indonesian: (2,3) ^{(please verify)} kaleng (id)
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} (cassa de) latta (2,3)
Maori: ^{(please verify)} tīni
Romanian: (3) ^{(please verify)} cositorit (ro)
Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} kositer m

Adjective

tin (not comparable)

Made of tin.
Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
- 1939, George Orwell, "Coming up for Air", London: Victor Gollancz.
  [I]n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab[ernacle] - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that.

Synonyms

tinnen (obsolete)

Derived terms

tin tabernacle
tin bath

Translations

made of tin

Belarusian: алавя́ны (alavjány), валавя́ны (valavjány), цы́навы (cýnavy)
Breton: staen (br)
Bulgarian: калае́н (kalaén), тенеки́ен (tenekíen)
Czech: cínový (cs)
Dutch: tinnen (nl)
Finnish: tinainen, peltinen (fi)
French: d'étain (fr), en étain
German: Zinn- (de), zinnen (de) (rare)
Hungarian: ón- (hu), cin- (hu), bádog- (hu)
Interlingua: de latta, de stanno
Italian: di stagno (it)
Macedonian: калаен (kalaen), тенекиен (tenekien)
Polish: cynowy (pl)
Portuguese: de lata, de estanho
Romanian: de cositor, din cositor
Russian: оловя́нный (ru) (olovjánnyj)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: лѝмен
Roman: lìmen (sh)
Slovak: cínový (sk)
Slovene: kositrni
Ukrainian: олов'я́ний (olovʺjányj), цино́вий (cynóvyj)

Verb

tin (third-person singular simple present tins, present participle tinning, simple past and past participle tinned)

(transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
(transitive) To cover with tin.
(transitive) To coat with solder
1. To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
2. To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire

Coordinate terms

bronze
(to preserve): can, bottle
(to prepare for soldering): wet, flux

Derived terms

tinned dog

Translations

to place into a tin in order to preserve

Armenian: պահածոյացնել (hy) (pahacoyacʿnel)
Bulgarian: консерви́рам (bg) impf or pf (konservíram)
Dutch: inblikken (nl), conserveren (nl)
Finnish: purkittaa (fi), tölkittää (fi)
French: mettre en conserve, conserver (fr)
German: eindosen (de), einmachen (de)
Greek: κονσερβοποιώ (el) (konservopoió)
Hungarian: konzervál (hu), befőz (hu), eltesz (hu)
Macedonian: конзерви́ра impf or pf (konzervíra)
Portuguese: enlatar (pt)
Russian: консерви́ровать (ru) (konservírovatʹ)
Spanish: enlatar (es)

to cover with tin

Bulgarian: калайди́свам (kalajdísvam)
Dutch: vertinnen (nl)
Finnish: tinata (fi)
French: étamer (fr)
German: verzinnen (de)
Greek: γανώνω (el) (ganóno)
Hungarian: ónoz, bádoggal bevon
Macedonian: калаисува (kalaisuva)
Polish: bielić (pl) impf, cynować (pl) pf
Portuguese: estanhar (pt)
Romanian: cositori (ro)
Russian: луди́ть (ru) impf (ludítʹ), полуди́ть (ru) pf (poludítʹ)
Spanish: estañar (es)

to coat with solder

Bulgarian: калайди́свам (kalajdísvam)
Dutch: vertinnen (nl)
Finnish: tinata (fi)
French: étamer (fr)
German: vorverzinnen
Hungarian: forrasztóónnal bevon, forrasszal bevon, forraszt (hu)
Macedonian: залемува (zalemuva), леми (lemi)
Spanish: estañar (es)

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Translations to be checked

Breton: (1) ^{(please verify)} staenañ
Interlingua: ^{(please verify)} stannar

References

(money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

Anagrams

INT, ITN, i'n't, in't, int, int., nit

Afrikaans

Chemical element
Sn
Previous: indium (In)
Next: antimoon (Sb)

Noun

tin (uncountable)

tin

Atong (India)

Etymology

Borrowed from English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tin/
Audio (file)

Noun

tin (Bengali script তিন)

corrugated iron

References

van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

Azerbaijani

Pronunciation

Audio (file)

Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinlər)

corner (the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point)
intersection
Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) çaharrah

Declension

Declension of tin
	singular	plural
nominative	tin	tinlər
definite accusative	tini	tinləri
dative	tinə	tinlərə
locative	tində	tinlərdə
ablative	tindən	tinlərdən
definite genitive	tinin	tinlərin

Possessive forms of tin
	nominative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tinim	tinlərim
sənin (“your”)	tinin	tinlərin
onun (“his/her/its”)	tini	tinləri
bizim (“our”)	tinimiz	tinlərimiz
sizin (“your”)	tininiz	tinləriniz
onların (“their”)	tini or tinləri	tinləri
	accusative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tinimi	tinlərimi
sənin (“your”)	tinini	tinlərini
onun (“his/her/its”)	tinini	tinlərini
bizim (“our”)	tinimizi	tinlərimizi
sizin (“your”)	tininizi	tinlərinizi
onların (“their”)	tinini or tinlərini	tinlərini
	dative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tinimə	tinlərimə
sənin (“your”)	tininə	tinlərinə
onun (“his/her/its”)	tininə	tinlərinə
bizim (“our”)	tinimizə	tinlərimizə
sizin (“your”)	tininizə	tinlərinizə
onların (“their”)	tininə or tinlərinə	tinlərinə
	locative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tinimdə	tinlərimdə
sənin (“your”)	tinində	tinlərində
onun (“his/her/its”)	tinində	tinlərində
bizim (“our”)	tinimizdə	tinlərimizdə
sizin (“your”)	tininizdə	tinlərinizdə
onların (“their”)	tinində or tinlərində	tinlərində
	ablative
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tinimdən	tinlərimdən
sənin (“your”)	tinindən	tinlərindən
onun (“his/her/its”)	tinindən	tinlərindən
bizim (“our”)	tinimizdən	tinlərimizdən
sizin (“your”)	tininizdən	tinlərinizdən
onların (“their”)	tinindən or tinlərindən	tinlərindən
	genitive
	singular	plural
mənim (“my”)	tinimin	tinlərimin
sənin (“your”)	tininin	tinlərinin
onun (“his/her/its”)	tininin	tinlərinin
bizim (“our”)	tinimizin	tinlərimizin
sizin (“your”)	tininizin	tinlərinizin
onların (“their”)	tininin or tinlərinin	tinlərinin

Danish

Noun

tin

tin (Sn)

Dutch

Chemical element
Sn
Previous: indium (In)
Next: antimoon (Sb)

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tin, ten, from Old Dutch *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɪn/
audio (file)
Hyphenation: tin
Rhymes: -ɪn

Noun

tin n (uncountable)

tin (metal, metallic element)

Derived terms

soldeertin
tinnen

Descendants

Afrikaans: tin
Negerhollands: den

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰiːn/
Rhymes: -iːn

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, uncountable)

tin (chemical element)

Declension

Declension of tin (singular only)
n3s	singular
n3s	indefinite	definite
nominative	tin	tinið
accusative	tin	tinið
dative	tini	tininum
genitive	tins	tinsins

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tɛ̃/

Etymology 1

From Middle French tin, tind.

Noun

tin m (plural tins)

a wooden support, often used on watercraft

Interjection

tin

(Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

Iban

Etymology

Borrowed from English tin.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin

tin
can (an airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.)

Icelandic

Chemical element
Sn
Previous: indín (In)
Next: antimon (Sb)

Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tʰɪːn/
Rhymes: -ɪːn

Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, no plural)

tin (chemical element)

Declension

declension of tin

	indefinite	definite
n-s	singular
nominative	tin	tinið
accusative	tin	tinið
dative	tini	tininu
genitive	tins	tinsins

Indonesian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈtɪn]
Hyphenation: tin

Etymology 1

From English tin, from Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Noun

tin (first-person possessive tinku, second-person possessive tinmu, third-person possessive tinnya)

tin, an airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.
Synonyms: belek, kaleng

Alternative forms

tim

Etymology 2

From Arabic تِين‎ (tīn, “fig”).

Noun

tin (first-person possessive tinku, second-person possessive tinmu, third-person possessive tinnya)

fig, a fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics.

Latvian

Verb

tin

2nd person singular present indicative form of tīt
3rd person singular present indicative form of tīt
3rd person plural present indicative form of tīt
2nd person singular imperative form of tīt
(with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of tīt
(with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of tīt

Maltese

Etymology

From Arabic تِين‎ (tīn).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn/

Noun

tin m (collective, singulative tina, plural tiniet)

fig, figs: (several fruits; fig as a mass or taste)

Middle English

Determiner

tin (subjective pronoun þou)

(chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

Pronoun

tin (subjective þou)

(chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

Noun

tin

Alternative form of tyn

Navajo

Etymology

From the root -TIN (“to freeze”), from Proto-Athabaskan *tən (“ice, frost”).

Cognates:

Apachean: Western Apache tįh, Chiricahua tį’, Lipan kįh
Others: Hupa -tiŋ, Galice tʰɐn, Chilcotin tə̀n, Slavey tę̀, -téné’, Dogrib tǫ́, Dene Sųłiné tə̀n, Sarcee nistiní, Chipewyan tvn, Beaver istv́ni, Carrier tvn, Sekani tə̀n, Hän tán, Ahtna ten, Dena’ina tən.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [txɪ̀n]

Noun

tin

ice, frost

Noone

Numeral

tin

five

References

R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

North Frisian

**North Frisian cardinal numbers**
< 9	10	11 >
Cardinal : tin

Etymology

From Old Frisian tiān. Compare West Frisian tsien, Sylt North Frisian tiin.

Numeral

tin

(Föhr-Amrum) ten

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

tìn n (definite singular tìnet)

(pre-1938) alternative form of tinn

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tin/

Noun

tin n

tin

Declension

Declension of tin (strong a-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	tin	—
accusative	tin	—
genitive	tines	—
dative	tine	—

Derived terms

tinen

Descendants

Middle English: tyn, tin, tyne, tynne
- English: tin
  - → Atong (India): tin
  - → Iban: tin
  - → Indonesian: tin
  - → Norman: tinne
  - Tok Pisin: tin
- Scots: tin

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

Noun

tin n

tin

Descendants

Icelandic: tin
Faroese: tin
Norwegian Nynorsk: tinn
Norwegian Bokmål: tinn
Old Swedish: tin, tēn
- Swedish: tenn
Danish: tin
Jamtish: tin
Westrobothnian: ten

References

“tin”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Papiamentu

Etymology

From Portuguese ter and Spanish tener and Kabuverdianu têm.

Verb

tin

to have
to possess
there are

Picard

Pronoun

tin m

your

Rohingya

**Rohingya cardinal numbers**
< 2	3	4 >
Cardinal : tin

Etymology

From Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

Numeral

tin (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴞𐴕)

three

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch tien.

Numeral

tin

ten

Sumerian

Romanization

tin

Romanization of 𒁷 (tin)

Swedish

Etymology

Syncopic form of tiden.

Noun

tin

(colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of tiden, definite singular of tid.
Han skriker hela tin! ― He's yelling all the time!

Usage notes

”Tiden” is only pronounced this way in the expression ”hela tiden”.

Anagrams

int, nit

Tày

Pronunciation

(Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA^(key): [tin˧˥]
(Trùng Khánh) IPA^(key): [tin˦]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *tiːnᴬ (“foot”).

Noun

tin (𬦿)

foot

Etymology 2

From Vietnamese tin.

Noun

tin (信)

news

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English tin.

Noun

tin

tin, can

Derived terms

tinpis

Turkish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰃𐰤‎ (tïn, “spirit, breathe”).

Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinler)

soul (rare, re-introduced in 1934 during the TDK’s language reform)
Synonym: ruh

Declension

Inflection
Nominative	tin
Definite accusative	tini
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	tin	tinler
Definite accusative	tini	tinleri
Dative	tine	tinlere
Locative	tinde	tinlerde
Ablative	tinden	tinlerden
Genitive	tinin	tinlerin

Vietnamese

Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 信 (SV: tín).

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [tin˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [tin˧˧]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [tɨn˧˧]

Verb

tin • (𪝮, 𠒷)

to believe or to trust
tin tưởng ― to believe in; to trust
cả tin ― gullible

Noun

tin • (𪝮, 𠒷)

news
Synonym: tin tức
tin nóng ― breaking news
tin buồn ― sad news, especially about someone who's passed away
tin dữ ― bad news
tin mừng/vui ― good news
đạo Tin Lành ― Protestantism (literally, “religion of good news; religion of the gospel; evangelical religion”)

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-, see also English thigh, Scottish Gaelic tòin.

Noun

tin f (plural tinau)

(vulgar, offensive) arse
Synonym: pen-ôl

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tin	din	nhin	thin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Yoruba

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /tĩ̄/

Verb

tin

to be thin; to be skinny
Synonyms: tín-ín-rín, pẹ́lẹ́ńgẹ́, tẹ́ẹ́rẹ́
Bọ̀bọ́ yẹn tin lẹ́sẹ̀. ― That guy's legs are thin.
Apá mi tin díẹ̀. ― My arms are a bit skinny.

tin

English

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Afrikaans

Noun

Atong (India)

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Azerbaijani

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Noun

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Danish

Noun

Dutch

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Derived terms

Descendants

Faroese

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Interjection

Further reading

Iban

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Icelandic

Etymology

Pronunciation

Noun

Declension

Indonesian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

Alternative forms

Etymology 2

Noun

Further reading

Latvian

Verb

Maltese

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Middle English

Determiner

Pronoun

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Navajo

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Noun