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• [k̟hɪn]
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From Middle English kyn, from Old English cynn (“kind, sort, rank”), from Proto-West Germanic *kuni, from Proto-Germanic *kunją (“race, generation, descent”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵn̥h1yom, from *ǵenh1- (“to produce”). Cognate with Scots kin (“relatives, kinfolk”), North Frisian kinn, kenn (“gender, race, family, kinship”), Dutch kunne (“gender, sex”), Middle Low German kunne (“gender, sex, race, family, lineage”), Danish køn (“gender, sex”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk kjønn (“gender, sex”), Swedish kön (“gender, sex”), Faroese and Icelandic kyn (“gender”), Finnish kunnia (“honour, glory”), Ingrian kunnia (“reputation”), and through Indo-European, with Latin genus (“kind, sort, ancestry, birth”), Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “kind, race”), Sanskrit जनस् (jánas, “kind, race”), Albanian dhen (“(herd of) small cattle”).

An irregular romanization of the Mandarin pronunciation of Chinese 晉 /晋 (Jìn).

See Kinshasa

Borrowed from Mandarin 琴 (qín), from a non-palatal dialect akin to Peking; or less likely, from Japanese 琴 (kin).

Clipping of fictionkin.

62 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: сроден (sroden) — related by blood or marriage
• Finnish: sukua oleva — related by blood or marriage
• French: apparenté — related by blood or marriage
• Icelandic: skyldur — related by blood or marriage
• Portuguese: aparentado — related by blood or marriage
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeach — related by blood or marriage
• Tagalog: karugo — related by blood or marriage
• Tagalog: kadugo — related by blood or marriage
• Tamil: கேளிர் (kēḷir) — related by blood or marriage
• Turkish: akraba — related by blood or marriage
• Albanian: fis — relatives collectively
• Arabic: أَهْل (ʔahl) — relatives collectively
• Arabic: أَقَارِب (ʔaqārib) — relatives collectively
• Arabic: اهل (ahal) — relatives collectively
• Armenian: ցեղ (cʻeġ) — relatives collectively
• Armenian: տոհմ (tohm) — relatives collectively
• Armenian: ազգուտակ (azgutak) — relatives collectively
• Old Armenian: ցեղ (cʻeł) — relatives collectively
• Old Armenian: տոհմ (tohm) — relatives collectively
• Old Armenian: զարմ (zarm) — relatives collectively
• Belarusian: радня́ (radnjá) — relatives collectively
• Bulgarian: род (rod) — relatives collectively
• Chinese Mandarin: 親屬 /亲属 (qīnshǔ) — relatives collectively
• Chinese Mandarin: 親族 /亲族 (qīnzú) — relatives collectively
• Dutch: verwanten — relatives collectively
• Faroese: ættarfólk — relatives collectively
• Finnish: suku — relatives collectively
• French: proches — relatives collectively
• French: parenté — relatives collectively
• Georgian: ნათესაობა (natesaoba) — relatives collectively
• Georgian: მოდგმა (modgma) — relatives collectively
• Georgian: ჩამომავლობა (čamomavloba) — relatives collectively
• German: Verwandtschaft — relatives collectively
• German: Verwandte — relatives collectively
• Gothic: 𐌺𐌿𐌽𐌹 (kuni) — relatives collectively
• Greek: συγγενείς (syngeneís) — relatives collectively
• Greek: οικογένεια (oikogéneia) — relatives collectively
• Hungarian: rokonság — relatives collectively
• Icelandic: ættmenni — relatives collectively
• Icelandic: skyldmenni — relatives collectively
• Japanese: 親族 (shinzoku) — relatives collectively
• Kaitag: туху́м (tuꭓúm) — relatives collectively
• Korean: 친족 (chinjok) — relatives collectively
• Māori: ngare — relatives collectively
• Māori: huānga — relatives collectively
• Middle English: kynrede — relatives collectively
• Middle English: kyn — relatives collectively
• Portuguese: parentes — relatives collectively
• Portuguese: parentagem — relatives collectively
• Russian: родня́ (rodnjá) — relatives collectively
• Russian: ро́дственники (ródstvenniki) — relatives collectively
• Russian: ро́дичи (ródiči) — relatives collectively
• Russian: соро́дичи (soródiči) — relatives collectively
• Scottish Gaelic: càirdeas — relatives collectively
• Slovene: sorodstvo — relatives collectively
• Spanish: parentaje — relatives collectively
• Tagalog: hinlog — relatives collectively
• Turkish: akraba — relatives collectively
• Ukrainian: рідня́ (ridnjá) — relatives collectively
• Ukrainian: ро́дичі (ródyči) — relatives collectively
• ǃXóõ: tâa — relatives collectively
• ǃXóõ: ǃkxʻái — relatives collectively