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rin

See also: Appendix:Variations of "rin"

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rin

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

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English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English rinnen, from Old English rinnan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”). More at run.

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rin (third-person singular simple present rins, present participle rinning, simple past ran, past participle run)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, dialectal) To run.
    • 1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, volume 1, John Macrone, page 314:
      "Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it. […] ."
    • a. 1846, John Imlah, “Where Gadie rins”, in James Grant Wilson, editor, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Volume II, Harper & Brothers, published 1876, page 211:
      O! gin I were where Gadie[the name of a rivulet] rins,
    • 1879, I. T. Tregellas [John Tabois Tregellas], Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London), page 3,
      I had a servant who had lived all his life-time within four miles of Plymouth, who told me of a circumstance which occurred to his mother, thus:— "Mawther ben out gatherin' nits, and when she kimbed hum she went to shet the shetters , and then she seed a man rin out of the dewr weth three spewns weth un, what he had stould, and away he rinned, and my mawther rinned arter un. 'Twas as fine a mewnlight night as cud be seed tew (too); an she cud see un stright on afore her; and hallowed tew she ded as lang as ever her wind beered up, and rinned and rinned; at laest she rinned un out of sight, and never goat the spewns she dedn't"

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).

Noun

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rin (plural rin)

  1. A coin worth 1⁄1000 of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.

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Arigidi

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rin

  1. you, second person singular pronoun, as object

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  • B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

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rin

  1. accusative of ri

Galician

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rin

  1. inflection of rir:
    1. third-person plural present indicative
    2. first-person singular preterite indicative

German

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rin

  1. (regional, colloquial) Alternative form of rein (“inside”)
    Rin in die gute Stube! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

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  • “rin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Japanese

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rin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of りん
  2. Rōmaji transcription of リン

Megleno-Romanian

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *alīnus,[1] from *alnīnus, from Latin alnus + -īnus. Compare Romanian anin, arin, Aromanian arin, anin.

Noun

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rin m

  1. alder

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  • Atasanov, Petar (1990) Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske
  1. ^ https://www.dex.ro/anin

North Frisian

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian rein. Cognates include West Frisian rein.

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rin m

  1. (Mooring and Föhr-Amrum dialects) rain
    en smitjenen rin
    heavy rain
    Det liket efter rin.
    It looks like rain.

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rin (third-person singular simple present rins, present participle rinnin, simple past run, past participle run)

  1. to run
    • 1788, Robert Burns (lyrics and music), “Auld Lang Syne”:
      We twa hae run about the braes, / and pou'd the gowans fine;
      We two have run about the braes, / and picked the daisies fine;

Spanish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English rim

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rin m (plural rines)

  1. rim (of wheel)

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Sumerian

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rin

  1. Romanization of 𒆸 (rin)

Tagalog

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rin (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈ᜔)

  1. Alternative form of din

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  • When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, din is used instead, but the distinction isn't always made.

Welsh

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Noun

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rin

  1. Soft mutation of rhin.

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
rhin rin unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

West Frisian

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Verb

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rin

  1. run
  2. walk

Yola

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rin

  1. Alternative form of rhin
    • 1867, OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR:
      F. rin, risheen.
      E. run, rushing.

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  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 14

Yoruba

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Etymology 1

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Proposed to be from Proto-Yoruboid *rɪ̃̀

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rìn

  1. to walk
    1. (with bá) to associate with
      Ọmọlúwàbí ní ń bá ọmọlúwàbí rìn ― Good people associate with good people
    2. to move; to locomote
      Ọ̀kadà jẹ́ ọkọ̀ kan tó ń fẹsẹ̀ méjì rìn ― An okada is a vehicle that goes on two wheels
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  • rin when followed by a direct object
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proverbs

Etymology 2

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Kárọ́ọ̀tì tí à ń rin

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rin

  1. to grate

Etymology 3

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rin

  1. (ergative) to be moist; to moisten; to dampen
    Amọ̀ yìí ò rin rárá ― This clay isn't moist at all
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rìn

  1. to tickle
    Ó rìn mí lábíyá ― He tickled my armpit
  2. to press down
    Ẹrù ń rìn ín mọ́lẹ̀ ― Load weighs it down
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rin when followed by a direct object.

Etymology 5

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rín

  1. to smile
  2. to laugh
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typically used with ẹ̀rín (“smile; laugh”)

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Zhuang

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Etymology

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From Proto-Tai *triːlᴬ (“stone”); Cognate with Thai หิน (hǐn), Lao ຫີນ (hīn), Lü ᦠᦲᧃ (ḣiin), Shan ႁိၼ် (hǐn), Tai Nüa ᥞᥤᥢᥴ (hín), Ahom 𑜍𑜢𑜃𑜫 (rin), Saek หรี่น.

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Noun

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rin (Sawndip forms 𬒞 or 𰧄 or 𮀡 or 砛 or 𮀙 or ⿰石土 or ⿱石心 or 碒 or 磊 or ⿰石忍 or 𡊵 or ⿵门石 or 磌 or 鿬 or 䂩 or ⿱火䡛 or 䂝 or 𮀝 or 磷 or 碄 or 斫, 1957–1982 spelling rin)

  1. stone; rock
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