crin

See also: crín and crîn

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin crīnis

French crinbor.

English crin

Borrowed from French crin (“horsehair”).

Noun

crin (countable and uncountable, plural crins)

1. horsehair fabric

Anagrams

• incr.

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crīnis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Northern, Balearic, Central, Valencia, Northwestern) [ˈkɾin]

Noun

crin m (plural crins)

1. hair (from the mane or tail of certain animals, especially horses); horsehair

Derived terms

• crina
• crinera
• crinut

Further reading

• “crin”, 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

French

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crīnis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁɛ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃
• Homophones: crains, craint, craints, crins

Noun

crin m (plural crins)

1. hair (of certain animals, especially horses); horsehair

Derived terms

• à tous crins / à tout crin
• crinière

Further reading

• “crin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Galician

Verb

crin

1. first-person plural preterite indicative of crer

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic кринъ (krinŭ), from Greek κρίνο (kríno), from Ancient Greek κρίνον (krínon).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /krin/

Noun

crin m (plural crini)

1. lily

Declension

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative-accusative	crin	crinul	crini	crinii
genitive-dative	crin	crinului	crini	crinilor
vocative	crinule		crinilor

Spanish

Etymology

Inherited from Latin crīnis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɾin/ [ˈkɾĩn]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: crin

Noun

crin f (plural crines)

1. mane

   Synonym: melena

Further reading

• “crin”, 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

Welsh

Etymology

From Middle Welsh crin, from Old Welsh crin, from Proto-Brythonic *krin, from Proto-Celtic *krīnos. Compare Old Irish crín (“withered, decayed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kriːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

crin (feminine singular crin, plural crinion, equative mor grin, comparative mwy crin, superlative mwyaf crin)

1. withered, brittle
2. scorched, parched
   • 1842 July, “Hanesion cartefol a thramor”, in Yr haul, volume 7, number 85, page 221:

     [O]nd y mae rhyw nifer o gretyddolion, mor sych a thywod anialwch Zaara yn Affrig, mewn lle a elwir Bridgeford, ym mhlwyf Sant Petr, wedi rhoddi galwad iddo, er derbyn urddau cyssegredig, a gweinyddu iddynt mewn pethau cyssegredig, ac fe wna hwn yrru y nythaid hon yn ddeng mil sychach, ac yn fyrddiwn mwy crin nag y buont erioed.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

3. miserly, tight

Derived terms

• crinder m (“dryness”)

Mutation

Mutated forms of crin

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
crin	grin	nghrin	chrin

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “crin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies