nin
Translingual
Symbol
ninCategory:Translingual lemmas#NINCategory:Translingual symbols#NINCategory:Translingual terms with redundant script codes#NINCategory:Translingual palindromes#NINCategory:Translingual entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
See also
English
Etymology
Probably derived from Welsh nain (“grandmother”), but see also Proto-CelticCategory:English terms derived from Proto-Celtic#NIN *nana (“grandmother”)Category:English undefined derivations#NIN.
Pronunciation
Noun
nin (plural nins)Category:English lemmas#NINCategory:English nouns#NINCategory:English countable nouns#NINCategory:English palindromes#NINCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- (dialectCategory:English dialectal terms#NIN, LiverpoolCategory:Liverpudlian English#NIN) Affectionate name for a grandmother.
Synonyms
Anagrams
Abinomn
Noun
ninCategory:Abinomn lemmas#NINCategory:Abinomn nouns#NINCategory:Abinomn palindromes#NINCategory:Abinomn entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
Alemannic German
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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle High GermanCategory:Alemannic German terms inherited from Middle High German#NINCategory:Alemannic German terms derived from Middle High German#NIN niun, from Old High GermanCategory:Alemannic German terms inherited from Old High German#NINCategory:Alemannic German terms derived from Old High German#NIN niun, from Proto-GermanicCategory:Alemannic German terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#NINCategory:Alemannic German terms derived from Proto-Germanic#NIN *newun. Cognate with German neun, Dutch negen, English nine, Icelandic níu.
Pronunciation
Numeral
ninCategory:Alemannic German lemmas#NINCategory:Alemannic German numerals#NINCategory:Alemannic German cardinal numbers#NINCategory:Alemannic German palindromes#NINCategory:Alemannic German entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
Asturian
Alternative forms
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)Category:Requests for etymologies in Asturian entries#NIN
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnin/ [ˈnĩŋ]Category:Asturian terms with IPA pronunciation#NIN
- Rhymes: -inCategory:Rhymes:Asturian/in#NINCategory:Rhymes:Asturian/in/1 syllable#NIN
- Syllabification: nin
Conjunction
ninCategory:Asturian lemmas#NINCategory:Asturian conjunctions#NINCategory:Asturian palindromes#NINCategory:Asturian entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- neither, nor, (not) either
- 1915, Julio Vicuña Cifuentes, Mitos y Supersticiones Recogidos de la Tradición Oral Chilena, page 219:
- Nin en Viernes, nin en MartesCategory:Asturian terms with quotations#NINCategory:Requests for translations of Asturian quotations#NIN
cases les fies ni múes les vaques.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Interjection
ninCategory:Asturian lemmas#NINCategory:Asturian interjections#NINCategory:Asturian palindromes#NINCategory:Asturian entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- interjection, usually friendly, used at the end of a phrase when speaking usually to children
- Yá pues comer, nin
- You can eat now, kid
- ¿Que quies pa Navidá, nin?
- What do you want for Christmas, kid?
Further reading
- Xosé Lluis García Arias (2002–2004), “nin”, in Diccionario general de la lengua asturiana [General Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Spanish), Editorial Prensa Asturiana, →ISBN
- “nin”, in Diccionariu de la llingua asturiana [Dictionary of the Asturian Language] (in Asturian), 1st edition, Academy of the Asturian Language [Asturian: Academia de la Llingua Asturiana], 2000, →ISBN
Catalan
Pronunciation
Noun
nin m (plural nins, feminine nina, feminine plural nines)Category:Catalan lemmas#NINCategory:Catalan nouns#NINCategory:Catalan countable nouns#NINCategory:Catalan palindromes#NINCategory:Catalan entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Catalan masculine nouns#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- (dialectalCategory:Catalan dialectal terms#NIN) alternative form of nen
Further reading
- “nin”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “nin”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “nin” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “nin” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Central Bikol
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nin/ [n̪in̪]Category:Central Bikol terms with IPA pronunciation#NIN
Preposition
nin (Basahan spelling ᜈᜒᜈ᜔)Category:Central Bikol lemmas#NINCategory:Central Bikol prepositions#NINCategory:Central Bikol terms with Basahan script#NINCategory:Central Bikol palindromes#NINCategory:Central Bikol entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- (formalCategory:Central Bikol formal terms#NIN) of (mostly for locations and occasions)
- Aldaw nin Pagkamuot
- Valentine's Day (Day of Love)
- Aldaw nin Kamahalan
- Easter (Day of Adoration)
- (NagaCategory:Naga Central Bikol#NIN) of (expressing possession)
- Harong nin ayam.
- House of dog.
- (NagaCategory:Naga Central Bikol#NIN) indirect marker for nouns or phrases other than personal names
- Nagkakan sana kami nin pamahawan.
- We just ate breakfast.
Synonyms
See also
Esperanto
Etymology
Esperanto first person plural pronoun ni + accusative/objective case ending -n.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /nin/Category:Esperanto 1-syllable words#NINCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#NIN
Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#NINAudio 1: (file)
Category:Esperanto terms with audio pronunciation#NINAudio 2: (file) - Rhymes: -inCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/in#NINCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/in/1 syllable#NIN
- Syllabification: nin
Pronoun
ninCategory:Esperanto non-lemma forms#NINCategory:Esperanto pronoun forms#NINCategory:Esperanto palindromes#NINCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- accusative of niCategory:Esperanto pronoun forms#NIN
See also
 |
singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | accusative | possessive | nominative | accusative | possessive | |||
| first person | mi | min | mia | ni | nin | nia | ||
| second person |
formal | vi | vin | via | vi | vin | via | |
| familiar1 | ci | cin | cia | |||||
| third person |
masculine | li | lin | lia | ||||
| feminine | ŝi | ŝin | ŝia | |||||
| neuter | ĝi | ĝin | ĝia | |||||
| gender-neutral2 | ri ŝli |
rin ŝlin |
ria ŝlia | |||||
| reflexive | si | sin | sia | si | sin | sia | ||
| indefinite | oni | onin | onia | oni | onin | onia | ||
1 Rare.
2 Not widely used.
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-PortugueseCategory:Galician terms inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese#NINCategory:Galician terms derived from Old Galician-Portuguese#NIN nen, nin, from LatinCategory:Galician terms inherited from Latin#NINCategory:Galician terms derived from Latin#NIN nec (“nor, and not”). Akin to Portuguese nem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈniŋ/ [ˈnĩŋ]Category:Galician terms with IPA pronunciation#NIN
- Rhymes: -iŋCategory:Rhymes:Galician/iŋ#NINCategory:Rhymes:Galician/iŋ/1 syllable#NIN
- Hyphenation: nin
Conjunction
ninCategory:Galician lemmas#NINCategory:Galician conjunctions#NINCategory:Galician palindromes#NINCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
Derived terms
Adverb
ninCategory:Galician lemmas#NINCategory:Galician adverbs#NINCategory:Galician palindromes#NINCategory:Galician entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
References
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “nin”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “nin”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “nin”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “nin”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “nin”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Hunsrik
Pronunciation
Adverb
ninCategory:Hunsrik lemmas#NINCategory:Hunsrik adverbs#NINCategory:Hunsrik palindromes#NINCategory:Hunsrik entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
Further reading
- Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “nin”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch
Japanese
Romanization
ninCategory:Japanese non-lemma forms#NINCategory:Japanese romanizations#NINCategory:Japanese terms with non-redundant manual script codes#NINCategory:Japanese entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
Mandarin
Romanization
ninCategory:Hanyu Pinyin#NIN0Category:Mandarin non-lemma forms#NIN0Category:Mandarin terms with redundant script codes#NIN0Category:Mandarin entries with incorrect language header#NIN0Category:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- nonstandard spelling of nínCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#NIN0
- nonstandard spelling of nǐnCategory:Mandarin nonstandard forms#NIN0
Usage notes
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Middle English
Numeral
ninCategory:Middle English alternative forms#NINCategory:Middle English palindromes#NINCategory:Middle English entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- alternative form of nyn
Quechua
Verb
ninCategory:Quechua non-lemma forms#NINCategory:Quechua verb forms#NINCategory:Quechua palindromes#NINCategory:Quechua entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
Somali
Etymology
From earlier *náma. The sequence *an/am may have become in/im in Somali (compare Arabic قَلَم (qalam) > Somali qalin, Jiiddu hanjhisaal vs. Somali hindhis).
Cognate with Jiiddu lam, Oromo nama, Orma inamaa (“person”), Waata inamaa (“person”), Afar num, Burji lammi.
Pronunciation
Noun
nín m (plural niman m)Category:Somali lemmas#NINCategory:Somali nouns#NINCategory:Somali palindromes#NINCategory:Somali entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Somali masculine nouns#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- man
- Antonym: naag
- Nin baa naagi aragtay. ― A woman saw a man.Category:Somali terms with usage examples#NIN
- Nin hodon ahayuu noqday. ― He became a rich man.Category:Somali terms with usage examples#NIN
Usage notes
- In Af-Banaadir, the form nimeed is used for the genitive case instead.
Inflection
| singular | |
|---|---|
| absolutive | nín |
| nominative | nin |
| genitive | nín |
| vocative | nínyahow |
References
- “nin”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈnin/ [ˈnĩn]Category:Spanish 1-syllable words#NINCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#NIN
- Rhymes: -inCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/in#NINCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/in/1 syllable#NIN
- Syllabification: nin
Conjunction
ninCategory:Spanish lemmas#NINCategory:Spanish conjunctions#NINCategory:Spanish palindromes#NINCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
Further reading
- “nin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Sumerian
Romanization
ninCategory:Sumerian non-lemma forms#NINCategory:Sumerian romanizations#NINCategory:Sumerian palindromes#NINCategory:Sumerian entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN
- romanization of 𒎏 (nin)Category:Sumerian terms with non-redundant manual transliterations#NIN
Volapük
Noun
nin (genitive nina, plural nins)Category:Volapük lemmas#NINCategory:Volapük nouns#NINCategory:Volapük palindromes#NINCategory:Volapük entries with incorrect language header#NINCategory:Pages with entries#NINCategory:Pages with 18 entries#NIN