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pin

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Clipping of English Piame with n as a placeholder.

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pin

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Piame.

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English

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pins (sharpened steel wire with a head)
 
Wikimedia project lapel pins / badge

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Etymology 1

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Proto-Germanic *pinnaz
Proto-West Germanic *pinn
Old English pinn
Middle English pinne
English pin

    From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).

    Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.

    No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).

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    pin (plural pins)

    1. A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
      • 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
        With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
    2. A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
    3. A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
      Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
    5. (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
    6. A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
    8. (informal, in the plural) A leg.
      I'm not so good on my pins these days.
    9. (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
      The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.
    10. A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
    12. (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
      Synonyms: lapel pin, badge
    13. (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
    14. (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
    15. (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
      The shot landed right on the pin.
    16. (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
    17. (obsolete) A mood, a state of being.
    18. One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
    19. (medicine, obsolete) Caligo.
    20. A thing of small value; a trifle.
    21. A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
    22. (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
    23. The tenon of a dovetail joint.
    24. (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
      • 1978, Hugh Verity, chapter 2, in We landed by moonlight, Manchester: Crécy Publishing, →ISBN, page 22=:
        Our ground crew were lodged in the main station, but they came to the cottage for a party when operations for the night had been cancelled and we had a new ‘gong’ (decoration) to celebrate. On these occasions we always installed a pin of bitter.
    25. (informal) A pinball machine.
      I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.
      • 1949, Billboard, volume 61, page 82:
        Attracted by game operation, many invested heavily in pins and rolldowns prior to last spring.
    26. (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
    27. (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.
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    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: pins
    • → Polish: pin
    • → Spanish: pin
    • → Swahili: pini
    • → Swedish: pin, pins
    • → Malayalam: പിൻ (piṉ)
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    pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

    1. (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
    2. (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
    4. (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
      He pinned his opponent on the mat.
    5. To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
    6. (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
      Antonym: unpin
      to pin a folder to the taskbar
    7. (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
      Antonym: unpin
      When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
      • 2012, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 5.0, page 244:
        […] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.
    8. (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
      Synonym: peg
      • 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:
        Now I need to pin those needles.
    9. (bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
    10. (backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.
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    pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)

    1. Alternative form of peen.

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    pin (plural pins)

    1. A cataract of the eye.
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    Catalan

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    Borrowed from English pin.

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    pin m (plural pins)

    1. (electronics) lead
    2. pin (ornament)

    Chuukese

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    pin

    1. holy

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    Cimbrian

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    pin

    1. first-person singular present indicative of zèinan: am

    Cornish

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Brythonic [Term?], from Latin pīnus. Cognate with Breton and Welsh pin.

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    pin (collective, singulative pinen f)

    1. pines
      Synonym: sab

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    Mutation of pin
    radical soft aspirate hard mixed
    pin bin fin unchanged unchanged

    Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Cornish.
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    pin

    1. imperative of pine

    Dutch

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    Etymology 1

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    From Middle Dutch pinne, from Old Dutch *pinna, from Proto-West Germanic *pinnā, of obscure origin. Cognate with English pin, Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”).

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    pin f (plural pinnen, diminutive pinnetje n)

    1. peg, pin
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    Abbreviation of persoonlijk identificatienummer (“personal identification number”).

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    pin m or n (plural pins, diminutive pinnetje n)

    1. PIN (A number used to confirm an individual's identity, e.g. when using an ATM or a mobile phone, or when making payment using a credit card or debit card)
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    pin

    1. inflection of pinnen:
      1. first-person singular present indicative
      2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
      3. imperative

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    French

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    Inherited from Old French pin, from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

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    pin m (plural pins)

    1. pine, pine tree (Pinus)
      Hypernym: pinacée

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    • Haitian Creole: pen

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    Friulian

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    From Latin pīnus.

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    pin m (plural pins)

    1. pine tree

    Indonesian

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    Etymology

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    From Dutch pin, from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- 'protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge'.

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    pin

    1. pin
      1. (colloquial) a needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening
        Synonym: peniti
      2. a slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling
    2. (colloquial) peg
      Synonym: pasak

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    Japanese

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    pin

    1. Rōmaji transcription of ピン

    Kapampangan

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    pin

    1. a particle used to indicate affirmation
      Wapin.
      I agree.
      Istu yapin.
      It's indeed correct.
      Ikapin.
      Yeah, it's you.
    2. Used to question the listener
      1. for a response or affirmation
        Synonyms: wari, ka, ya, ne, na
        Ikapen?
        Is it you?
      2. that implies impatience.
        Nonakapin?
        Where are you? [I have been waiting for so long!]
      3. that implies dismay or disgust.
        Ninanu nepen?
        What the heck happen again?
    3. Used for emphasis
      Synonym: nga
      Alakupin agawa.
      I wasn't really able to do anything.
    4. Used to solicit pity from the listener
      Alakupin agawa e.
      [I'm sorry], I wasn't able to do anything.

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    Latvian

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    pin

    1. inflection of pīt:
      1. second/third-person singular present indicative
      2. third-person plural present indicative
      3. second-person singular imperative
    2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of pīt
    3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of pīt

    Mandarin

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    pin

    1. nonstandard spelling of pīn
    2. nonstandard spelling of pín
    3. nonstandard spelling of pǐn
    4. nonstandard spelling of pìn

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    • 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.

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    pin (Raguileo spelling)

    1. To say
    2. To tell (a story).
    3. first-person singular realis form of pin

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    Middle English

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    pin

    1. alternative form of pyne (“pain, torture”)

    Ojibwe

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    pin anim (plural piniig, diminutive piniins, locative piniing, pejorative pinish)

    1. potato

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    Borrowed from Latin pīnus

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    pīn ?

    1. (appears only in compounds) pine

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    Papantla Totonac

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    pin inan

    1. chili. chili pepper.

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    • Crescencio García Ramos, Diccionario Básico Totonaco-Español Español-Totonaco (Xalapa, Academia Veracruzana de las Lenguas Indígenas, 2007)

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    pin m

    1. pine

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    Polish

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    Borrowed from English pin, from Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn, from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint-, from Proto-Indo-European *bend-.

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    pin m inan

    1. (electricity) lead, pin (any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector)

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    Declension of pin
    singular plural
    nominative pin piny
    genitive pinu pinów
    dative pinowi pinom
    accusative pin piny
    instrumental pinem pinami
    locative pinie pinach
    vocative pinie piny

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    • “pin”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[1] (in Polish)

    Rawang

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    Compare Chinese 兵 (bīng).

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    pin

    1. army.
    2. soldier.

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    Romanian

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    Inherited from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

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    pin m (plural pini)

    1. pine

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    singular plural
    indefinite definite indefinite definite
    nominative-accusative pin pinul pini pinii
    genitive-dative pin pinului pini pinilor
    vocative pinule pinilor

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    From Latin pīnus.

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    pin m

    1. (Puter, Vallader) spruce, fir

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    Seta

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    pin

    1. woman

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    • transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

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    • IPA(key): /ˈpin/ [ˈpĩn]
    • Rhymes: -in
    • Syllabification: pin

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    Borrowed from English pin.

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    pin m (plural pines)

    1. pin, lapel pin, badge
      Synonym: insignia
    2. (electricity) pin (any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector)

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    Borrowed from English PIN, acronym of personal identification number.

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    pin m (plural pines)

    1. PIN, PIN number
      Synonym: número pin

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    Swedish

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    Etymology 1

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    Clipping of pinsam, with the same meaning.

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    pin (comparative mer pin, superlative mest pin)

    1. (colloquial) embarrassing
      Så jäkla pin asså!
      So f--ing embarrassing!
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    Invariable, not used in the definite form.

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    From pina.

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    pin

    1. (mostly in (reference to) the phrase below) pain, torment
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    pin (not comparable)

    1. (colloquial) very, really, super-
      Synonyms: jätte-, väldigt
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    Borrowed from English pin.

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    pin n

    1. alternative form of pins
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    The form with -s is recommended since it's easier to decline in Swedish.

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    Turkish

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    From Ottoman Turkish پین (pin), borrowed from a dialectal form of Armenian բույն (buyn, “nest”).

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    pin (definite accusative pini, plural pinler)

    1. (dialectal) coop for poultry

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    Declension of pin
    singular plural
    nominative pin pinler
    definite accusative pini pinleri
    dative pine pinlere
    locative pinde pinlerde
    ablative pinden pinlerden
    genitive pinin pinlerin
    Possessive forms
    nominative
    singular plural
    1st singular pinim pinlerim
    2nd singular pinin pinlerin
    3rd singular pini pinleri
    1st plural pinimiz pinlerimiz
    2nd plural pininiz pinleriniz
    3rd plural pinleri pinleri
    definite accusative
    singular plural
    1st singular pinimi pinlerimi
    2nd singular pinini pinlerini
    3rd singular pinini pinlerini
    1st plural pinimizi pinlerimizi
    2nd plural pininizi pinlerinizi
    3rd plural pinlerini pinlerini
    dative
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    1st singular pinime pinlerime
    2nd singular pinine pinlerine
    3rd singular pinine pinlerine
    1st plural pinimize pinlerimize
    2nd plural pininize pinlerinize
    3rd plural pinlerine pinlerine
    locative
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    1st singular pinimde pinlerimde
    2nd singular pininde pinlerinde
    3rd singular pininde pinlerinde
    1st plural pinimizde pinlerimizde
    2nd plural pininizde pinlerinizde
    3rd plural pinlerinde pinlerinde
    ablative
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    1st singular pinimden pinlerimden
    2nd singular pininden pinlerinden
    3rd singular pininden pinlerinden
    1st plural pinimizden pinlerimizden
    2nd plural pininizden pinlerinizden
    3rd plural pinlerinden pinlerinden
    genitive
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    1st singular pinimin pinlerimin
    2nd singular pininin pinlerinin
    3rd singular pininin pinlerinin
    1st plural pinimizin pinlerimizin
    2nd plural pininizin pinlerinizin
    3rd plural pinlerinin pinlerinin
    Predicative forms
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    1st singular pinim pinlerim
    2nd singular pinsin pinlersin
    3rd singular pin
    pindir     		pinler
    pinlerdir
    1st plural piniz pinleriz
    2nd plural pinsiniz pinlersiniz
    3rd plural pinler pinlerdir

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    • Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979), “բոյն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
    • “pin”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

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    Borrowed from French pile.

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    (classifier cục) pin

    1. battery
    2. the amount of electricity that a battery holds
      Điện thoại tao hết pin rồi.
      My phone is dead.
      (literally, “My phone has run out of "battery".”)

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    Welsh

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    From Latin pīnus (compare Middle Irish pín).

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    pin m or m pl (uncountable)

    1. pine (tree)
    2. pine (wood)
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    Modern Welsh orthography prefers the form pin to the superseded form pîn.

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    pin m (plural pinnau)

    1. dated spelling of pìn

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    Mutated forms of pin
    radical soft nasal aspirate
    pin bin mhin phin

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

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

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    pin

    1. bee

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    • Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎[2], Pacific linguistics

    Yapese

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    From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman”).

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    pin

    1. woman

    Yoruba

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    pin

    1. to terminate; to come to an end
      Ọ̀nà ti pin ― The road has ended
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    Cognate with Igala kpẹ́

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    pín

    1. to divide
      O fẹ́ tọ́ ọ wò àbí? Màá pín in sí méjì. ― Do you want to taste it? I'll divide it in two.
    2. to share out; to distribute
      Àwọn apẹja pín èyí tí wọ́n pa fún gbogbo abúlé ― The fishermen shared their catch with the village
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