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• /ˈlɪnɪn/
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From Middle English lynnen, lynen, from Old English līnen (“linen", "made of flax”), from Proto-West Germanic *līnīn (“made of flax”), from Proto-Germanic *līną (“flax”), from Proto-Indo-European *līno- (“flax”), equivalent to line + -en. Cognate with Latin līnum (“flax”) and thus also Linum. More at line.

103 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Aghwan: 𐕜𐔴𐕌 (ṭem) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Albanian: shag — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Arabic: كَتَّان (kattān) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Armenian: քաթան (kʻatʻan) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Azerbaijani: kətan — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Bulgarian: ленено платно (leneno platno) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Catalan: lli — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Chinese Mandarin: 亞麻布 /亚麻布 (yàmábù) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Chinese Mandarin: 麻布 (mábù) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Czech: plátno — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Danish: hør — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Danish: lærred — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Dutch: linnen — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Dutch: doek — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Esperanto: lino — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Faroese: hørur — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Faroese: lín — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Finnish: pellava — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Finnish: liina — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• French: toile — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• French: lin — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• French: linge — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Galician: lenzo — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Galician: liño — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Georgian: სელი (seli) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• German: Leinen — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Greek: λινό (linó) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Ancient Greek: λίνον (línon) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Ancient Greek: ὀθόνη (othónē) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Hebrew: פשתן (pishtán) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Hungarian: vászon — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Hungarian: lenvászon — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Ingrian: pellovas — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Irish: línéadach — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Italian: lino — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Japanese: 亜麻布 (amanuno) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Japanese: リネン (rinen) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Japanese: リンネル (rinneru) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Japanese: 麻布 (mafu) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Kazakh: зығыр (zyğyr) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Kazakh: кенеп мата (kenep mata) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Khmer: ធោវន្តពស្ត្រ (thoovoanta’pʊəh) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Central Kurdish: کەتان (ketan) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Latin: linteum — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Latin: carbasa — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Latvian: lini — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Macedonian: лен (len) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Macedonian: ка́тун (kátun) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Mongolian: зотон (zoton) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Mongolian: хөвөн даавуу (xövön daavuu) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Norwegian Bokmål: lin — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Norwegian Bokmål: lintøy — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lin — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lintøy — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Old Norse: hǫrr — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Old Norse: lín — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Persian: کتان (katân) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Polish: płótno n lniane — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Portuguese: linho — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Romanian: in — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Russian: полотно́ (polotnó) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Russian: холст (xolst) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Scottish Gaelic: anart — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Serbo-Croatian: platno — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Serbo-Croatian: prten — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Spanish: lino — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Spanish: linge — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Swahili: katani — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Swedish: linne — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Tocharian B: kenek — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Turkish: keten — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Ugaritic: 𐎔𐎘𐎚 (pṯt) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Welsh: lliain — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Yiddish: לײַוונט (layvnt) — thread or cloth made from flax fiber
• Azerbaijani: paltar — items
• Belarusian: бялі́зна (bjalízna) — items
• Catalan: llenceria — items
• Chinese Mandarin: 亞麻製品 /亚麻制品 (yàmá zhìpǐn) — items
• Finnish: liinavaate — items
• French: linge — items
• German: Heimtextilien — items
• Japanese: リネン製品 (rinennseihin) — items
• Latvian: veļa — items
• Mongolian: орны даавуу (orny daavuu) — items
• Mongolian: амны алчуур (amny alčuur) — items
• Norwegian Bokmål: lintøy — items
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lintøy — items
• Polish: bielizna — items
• Polish: bielizna stołowa — items
• Polish: bielizna pościelowa — items
• Polish: bielizna osobista — items
• Portuguese: roupa — items
• Romanian: lenjerie — items
• Russian: бельё (belʹjó) — items
• Scottish Gaelic: anart — items
• Spanish: ropa blanca — items
• Swedish: linne — items
• Ottoman Turkish: چاماشیر (çamaşır) — items
• Ukrainian: біли́зна (bilýzna) — items
• Welsh: lliain — items
• Greek: λινόχρους (linóchrous) — colour
• Latvian: linkrāsa — colour
• Spanish: linocros — colour