zin

 

• Zin

Clipping of zinfandel.

zin (countable and uncountable, plural zins)

1. (informal) Zinfandel wine.

• IPA^(key): /zɪn/

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• Hyphenation: zin
• Rhymes: -ɪn

From Middle Dutch sin, from Old Dutch sin, from Proto-West Germanic *sinn.

zin m (plural zinnen, diminutive zinnetje n)

1. meaning, significance

   Synonym: betekenis

   Wat is de zin van het leven?

   What is the meaning of life?

2. point, the purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful

   Dat heeft geen zin.

   There's no point.

3. (grammar) sentence, phrase

   Synonym: frase

4. sense (means of perceiving reality)

   Synonym: zintuig

5. sense, comprehension

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

6. desire, appetite; intention

   Synonyms: lust, trek, goesting

   Ik heb zin om iets te doen. ― I feel like doing something.

• Afrikaans: sin
• Negerhollands: sin

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

zin

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

• inz.

zin

1. alternative form of verb form zina

IPA^(key): [ʒín] ^[1]

zin

1. (intransitive) to smell

From French juin.

zin

1. June

zin

1. Alternative spelling of sin

From Middle English sonne, from Old English sunne, from Proto-West Germanic *sunnā (compare West Frisian sinne, Dutch zon), from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥ (“sun”).

• IPA^(key): /zɪn/

zin (plural zins)

1. sun
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 84:

     Ha deight ouse var gabble, tell ee zin go t'glade.

     You have put us in talk, 'till the sun goes to set.

   • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 14-15:

     till ee zin o'oure daies be var aye be ee-go t'glade.

     until the sun of our lives be gone down the dark valley (of death).

• zin-zetteen

• 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 81