hin

hin

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hindi.

From Middle English hin, from Latin hin, from Hebrew הִין, from Egyptian (hnw, “jar, unit of liquid volume”).

hin (plural hins)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L).
   • 1973, Bible (New International Version), Exodus 30:24:

     500 shekels of cassia — all according to the sanctuary shekel — and a hin of olive oil.

2. (historical units of measure) An Ancient Egyptian liquid measure of volume (about 0.48 L).
   • 1997, Helaine Selin, Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Westen Cultures:

     The hin for liquids was subdivided dimidially down to ¹⁄₃₂ = 1 ro.

• (Hebrew unit of measure): log (¹⁄₁₂ hin); cab, kab (¹⁄₃ hin); bath (6 hins); cor, kor, homer, chomer (60 hins)
• (Egyptian unit of measure): ro (¹⁄₃₂ hin); khay (¹⁄₃ hin); hekat, heqat (10 hins); khar (100 hins, later 160 or 200 hins)

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

• NHI, NIH, ihn

From Old Norse hinn. The other Germanic languages have a similar, but phonologically distinct pronoun in the same function: Proto-Germanic *jainaz, cf. Old English ġeon, Old High German jēner, and Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhiˀn], [hin]

hin c (neuter hint, plural hine)

1. (archaic) that (distant in space or time)

From Old Norse hinn.

• IPA^(key): /hiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

hin m or f (demonstrative)

1. the other, that, the

hin m or f (definite)

1. the

Expressive; possibly has roots in various ancient interjections, e.g. Latin hem (“eh?, oh!”), hui (“ho!, ooh!”)

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃/

hin

1. (onomatopoeia, colloquial) heh, ooh, hehe!

• IPA^(key): /(h)ĩ/

hin

1. fruit

From Old High German hina; compare English hence.

• IPA^(key): /hɪn/

hin

2. Used to denote direction away from the speaker.
   • 1912, Luther, John: 13:36 in the Bible]:

     w:Book of John XIII. 36. Spricht Simon Petrus zu ihm: HERR, wo gehst du hin? Jesus antwortete ihm: Wo ich hin gehe, kannst du mir diesmal nicht folgen; aber du wirst mir nachmals folgen

     Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.

hin (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. (colloquial) having taken its course, situated, left

   Synonym: hingegangen

   Ich werde nachsehen, wo die Pakete hin sind. ― I'll check where the packages went.

2. (colloquial) on the fritz, bruck, out of order

   Synonyms: hinüber, kaputt

3. (colloquial) exhausted, depleted
4. (colloquial) captivated, fully on wass

   Synonyms: (all also formal) hingerissen, hin und weg, hinüber

• dahin

• hin-
• hin und wieder

• “hin” in Duden online
• “hin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

hin (demonstrative)

1. that (female)

hin (f)

1. the (definite article)

hin

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひん

• (Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈhin/ [ˈhi̞n]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: hin

hin

1. Pronunciation variant of sin.

hin

1. Alternative form of hine

From Old Norse hinn.

• IPA^(key): /hɪnː/

hin m (feminine hi, neuter hitt, plural hine)

1. the other

   Me skal til hi sida av fjorden.

   We are going to the other side of the fjord.

• “hin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

hin

1. inflection of hinn:
   1. feminine singular nominative
   2. neuter plural nominative/accusative

hin

1. inflection of hinn:
   1. feminine singular nominative
   2. neuter plural nominative/accusative

hin

1. neigh (horse sound)

• “hin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Old Norse hinn.

The noun, a noa-name, might have been formed by ellipsis of phrases such as hin håle and hin onde.

hin

1. (demonstrative, obsolete) other, the other one; that

• hinsidan (“the other side”)
• hinsides (“on the other side”)

hin

1. (obsolete except in set phrases, before an adjective) the (definite article)

• hin håken (“the devil”) (a euphemism for hin håle)
• hin håle (“the devil”) (literally, “the hard one”)
• hin onde (“the devil”) (literally, “the evil one”)

hin c

1. (euphemistic) the devil

   Synonyms: den lede, den onde, hin håle, hin onde, skam

• hin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• hin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• hin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• Svensk etymologisk ordbok ("Swedish etymological dictionary")

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hin˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hin˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [hɨn˧˧]

hin

1. (of a nose) narrow

• "hin" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

• inh, nhi

From Proto-Brythonic *hin, from Proto-Celtic *sīnā.

• IPA^(key): /hiːn/

hin f (plural hinoedd, not mutable)

1. (dated) weather

   Synonym: tywydd

• hinsawdd (“climate”)

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

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hin c (plural hinnen, diminutive hintsje)

1. hen
2. chicken meat

• “hin (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

hin

1. Alternative form of hen

• 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 46