shin

See also: Shin, shin-, and shín

English

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English shyn, shine, from Old English scinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene.

Noun

shin (plural shins)

  1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone.
    Synonym: tibia
  2. A fishplate for a railway.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)
Translations

Verb

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

  1. (Britain, 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.
    to shin up a mast
    Synonym: shinny (US)
  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.
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Derived terms
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Etymology 2

Alternative forms

Noun

shin (plural shins)

  1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
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Further reading

Anagrams

Esperanto

Pronoun

shin

  1. H-system spelling of ŝin

Hausa

Noun

shin f

  1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ش‎

Irish

Pronoun

shin

  1. Lenited form of sin.

Derived terms
  • ó shin (“ago, back; since then”, adverb)

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
sin shin
after an, tsin		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading
  • "shin" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • Entries containing “shin” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
  • Entries containing “shin” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Japanese

Romanization

shin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of しん

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronoun

shin (emphatic shinyn)

  1. (personal pronoun) we, us
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