shin

See also: Shin, shin-, and shín

English

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃɪn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.

Noun

shin (plural shins)

  1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
    Synonym: tibia
  2. A fishplate for a railway[1]
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Verb

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

  1. (British, as "shin up") To climb a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.
    Synonym: shinny (US)
    to shin up a mast
  2. To strike with the shin.
    • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC‎:
      The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.
  3. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
    • 1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser:
      The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.
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Alternative forms

Noun

shin (plural shins)

  1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Translations

See also
  • Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Further reading

References
  1. Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Shin”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..

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Esperanto

Pronoun

shin

  1. H-system spelling of ŝin

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic شِين (šīn).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃín/
    • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA(key): [ʃɪ́ŋ]

Noun

shin f

  1. shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Irish

Pronoun

shin

  1. Lenited form of sin.

Japanese

Romanization

shin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of しん

Kwama

Noun

shin

  1. spear
  2. war

References
  • Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎, SIL International

Louisiana Creole
shin / shyin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from French chien (“dog”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʃɛ̃/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ̃

Noun

shin

  1. (a) dog

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronoun

shin (emphatic shinyn)

  1. (personal pronoun) we, us

Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

shin

  1. (colloquial) Lenited form of sin.
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