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Cognate to Scots gin (“if”): perhaps from gi(v)en, or a compound in which the first element is from Old English ġif (English if) and the second is cognate to English an (“if”) (compare iffen), or perhaps from again.

Abbreviation of geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (modern French genièvre), from Vulgar Latin ziniperus, from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).

Partly from Middle English gin, ginne (“cleverness, scheme, talent, device, machine”), from Old French gin, an aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”); and partly from Middle English grin, grine (“snare, trick, stratagem, deceit, temptation, noose, halter, instrument”), from Old English grin, gryn, giren (“snare, gin, noose”).

Borrowed from Dharug dyin (“woman”), but having acquired a derogatory tone.

A Hanyu Pinyin-esque romanization of Vietnamese Kinh (京).

Inherited from Middle English ginnen (“to begin”), contraction of beginnen.

87 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Ahtna: tsʼabaeli tuʼ — alcoholic beverage
• Arabic: جِين (jīn) — alcoholic beverage
• Armenian: ջին (ǰin) — alcoholic beverage
• Belarusian: джын (džyn) — alcoholic beverage
• Bulgarian: джин (džin) — alcoholic beverage
• Burmese: ဂျင် (gyang) — alcoholic beverage
• Catalan: ginebra — alcoholic beverage
• Catalan: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Chinese Cantonese: 氈酒 /毡酒 (zin1 zau2) — alcoholic beverage
• Chinese Mandarin: 金酒 (jīn jiǔ) — alcoholic beverage
• Czech: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Dutch: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Esperanto: ĝino — alcoholic beverage
• Estonian: džinn — alcoholic beverage
• Faroese: ginn — alcoholic beverage
• Finnish: gini — alcoholic beverage
• French: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Galician: xenebra — alcoholic beverage
• Georgian: ჯინი (ǯini) — alcoholic beverage
• German: Gin — alcoholic beverage
• Greek: τζιν (tzin) — alcoholic beverage
• Hawaiian: kini — alcoholic beverage
• Hebrew: ג׳ין (jin) — alcoholic beverage
• Hindi: जिन (jin) — alcoholic beverage
• Icelandic: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Irish: biotáille Ghinéive — alcoholic beverage
• Irish: jin — alcoholic beverage
• Italian: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Japanese: ジン (jin) — alcoholic beverage
• Khmer: ហ្សីន (žəyn) — alcoholic beverage
• Korean: 진 (jin) — alcoholic beverage
• Latvian: džins — alcoholic beverage
• Lithuanian: džinas — alcoholic beverage
• Macedonian: џин (džin) — alcoholic beverage
• Malay: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Māori: tīni — alcoholic beverage
• Norman: dginne — alcoholic beverage
• Norman: génèvre — alcoholic beverage
• Polish: dżin — alcoholic beverage
• Polish: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Polish: jałowcówka — alcoholic beverage
• Portuguese: gim — alcoholic beverage
• Russian: джин (džin) — alcoholic beverage
• Scottish Gaelic: sineubhar — alcoholic beverage
• Serbo-Croatian: џин — alcoholic beverage
• Serbo-Croatian: džin — alcoholic beverage
• Slovak: džin — alcoholic beverage
• Spanish: ginebra — alcoholic beverage
• Swahili: jini — alcoholic beverage
• Swedish: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Tagalog: hinebra — alcoholic beverage
• Thai: จิน (jin) — alcoholic beverage
• Turkish: cin — alcoholic beverage
• Ukrainian: джин (džyn) — alcoholic beverage
• Vietnamese: rượu gin — alcoholic beverage
• Vietnamese: gin — alcoholic beverage
• Yiddish: דזשין (dzhin) — alcoholic beverage
• Bulgarian: капан (kapan) — snare or trap
• Bulgarian: клопка (klopka) — snare or trap
• Finnish: ansa — snare or trap
• Finnish: loukku — snare or trap
• Georgian: მახე (maxe) — snare or trap
• Georgian: ხაფანგი (xapangi) — snare or trap
• Georgian: სატყუარა (saṭq̇uara) — snare or trap
• German: Fangeisen — snare or trap
• German: Tellereisen — snare or trap
• Russian: западня́ (zapadnjá) — snare or trap
• Russian: капка́н (kapkán) — snare or trap
• Russian: лову́шка (lovúška) — snare or trap
• Russian: сило́к (silók) — snare or trap
• Ottoman Turkish: طوزاق (tuzak) — snare or trap
• Ottoman Turkish: قپان (kapan) — snare or trap
• Ottoman Turkish: دام (dam) — snare or trap
• Bulgarian: скрипец (skripec) — machine
• Bulgarian: лебедка (lebedka) — machine
• Finnish: kolmijalkanosturi — machine
• Finnish: vintturi — machine
• Finnish: vinssi — machine
• Russian: лебёдка (lebjódka) — machine
• Russian: во́рот (vórot) — machine
• Chinese Mandarin: 京族 (Jīngzú) — people
• Vietnamese: Kinh — people
• Xibe: ᡪᡞᡢᡯᡠ ᡠᡣᠰᡠᠷᠠ (jingdzu uksura) — people
• Finnish: loukuttaa — to remove the seeds from cotton
• Irish: scillig — to remove the seeds from cotton
• Italian: ginnare — to remove the seeds from cotton
• Spanish: desmotar — to remove the seeds from cotton