jin

jin (plural jins)

1. Alternative spelling of jinn
   • 1928, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 21, in Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle, page 281:

     Each grasped a musket in one hand and searched for his hijab with the other, for each carried several of these amulets, and that in demand this night was the one written against the jin, for certainly none but a jin could have done this thing.

From Japanese 神 (jin).

jin (plural jins or jin)

1. A portion of dead wood on a branch or at the top of the trunk of a bonsai tree, whether formed naturally or deliberately to suggest age and hardship.

• IJN, JNI

From English gin.

jin

1. gin

• Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues

• IPA^(key): [ˈd͡ʒɪn]
• Hyphenation: jin

From Malay jin, from Classical Malay jin, from Arabic جِنّ (jinn, “genie”).

jin (first-person possessive jinku, second-person possessive jinmu, third-person possessive jinnya)

1. genie: a jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.

• djin (pre-1967)

From Dutch jeans, from English jeans, a shortened form of jean fustian (from Middle English Gene (“Genoa; Genovese”) + fustian (“strong cotton fabric”).

jin (first-person possessive jinku, second-person possessive jinmu, third-person possessive jinnya)

1. jeans: a pair of trousers made from denim cotton.

• jins

From Dutch gin, geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”), from Old French genevre (French genièvre), from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”).

jin (first-person possessive jinku, second-person possessive jinmu, third-person possessive jinnya)

1. gin: a colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
2. jenever

   Synonym: jenewer

From Malay jin, from Classical Malay jin, from Persian زین (zin, “saddle”), from Middle Persian [script needed] (zyn' /⁠zēn⁠/, “saddle”).

jin (first-person possessive jinku, second-person possessive jinmu, third-person possessive jinnya)

1. (obsolete) saddle: a seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.

   Synonym: pelana

• djin (pre-1967)

• “jin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From English gin.

jin m (genitive singular jin)

1. gin (alcoholic beverage)

jin

1. Rōmaji transcription of じん
2. Rōmaji transcription of ジン

jin

1. Nonstandard spelling of jīn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of jǐn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of jìn.

• 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.

From Proto-Iranian *ǰánHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ǰánHs, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷḗn.

• IPA^(key): /ʒɪn/

jin f

1. woman (adult female human being)
2. wife

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒī̃/

jin

1. to do; to practice
2. to make

   Mi è jin yangíci. ― I'm making food.

   Mi jin yèbo! ― I give thanks!

3. to be

   Yìzhè jin èmì à. ― The world is not home.

• 𐴅𐴞𐴕 (jin) — Hanifi Rohingya script

jin (Hanifi spelling 𐴅𐴞𐴕)

1. jinn

• جِن
• jẹ̀n (Ijebu)

• IPA^(key): /d͡ʒĩ̀/

jìn

1. to be far