sin

sin

1. (mathematics) A symbol of the trigonometric function sine.

From Middle English sinne, synne, sunne, zen, from Old English synn (“sin”), from Proto-Germanic *sunjō (“truth, excuse”) and *sundī, *sundijō (“sin”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁s-ónt-ih₂, from *h₁sónts ("being, true", implying a verdict of "truly guilty" against an accusation or charge), from *h₁es- (“to be”); compare Old English sōþ ("true"; see sooth).

• synne (obsolete)

• enPR: sĭn, IPA^(key): /sɪn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

sin (countable and uncountable, plural sins)

1. (theology) A violation of God's will or religious law.

   As a Christian, I think this is a sin against God.

2. A misdeed.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess‎:

     The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. […] The second note, the high alarum, not so familiar and always important since it indicates the paramount sin in Man's private calendar, took most of them by surprise although they had been well prepared.

3. A sin offering; a sacrifice for sin.
   • Bible, 2 Corinthians v. 21

     He hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin.

4. An embodiment of sin; a very wicked person.
   • William Shakespeare

     Thy ambition, / Thou scarlet sin, robbed this bewailing land / Of noble Buckingham.

• offence

sin (third-person singular simple present sins, present participle sinning, simple past and past participle sinned)

1. (intransitive, theology) To commit a sin.

• sinner

Modification of shin.

• seen, sīn

sin (plural sins)

1. A letter of the Hebrew alphabet; שׂ‎
2. A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س‎

Borrowed from Lao ສິ້ນ (sin) or Thai ซิ่น (sîn).

Laotian women wearing sins

• sinh, pha sin, phaa sin

sin (plural sins)

1. A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
   • 1992, Lucretia Stewart, Tiger balm: travels in Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia, page 25:

     These dancers with their graceful upright carriage, their dreamy distant expressions and their party sins (the women were wearing sins made of brightly-coloured silk woven in squares and broad stripes and usually worn by men) were infinitely more appealing than the younger dancers and the electronic band but, as Darachit was fond of saying and without apparent regret, 'Les traditions ne sont plus respectees."

   • 2008, Robert Cooper, CultureShock! Laos: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette, →ISBN:

     After the change in regime of 1975, every woman seen in public was wearing a sin, as this was part of a dresscode favoured by the new socialist government.

   • 2009, Arne Kislenko, Culture and Customs of Laos, →ISBN, page 128:

     Communism made things even worse by eliminating the export market for locally made textiles and, in some cases, prohibiting the production of silk and the manufacture of clothes. Although traditional sins were allowed, colorful ones were considered bourgeois and banned.

• INS, Ins, Ins., NIS, NSI, Niš, in's, ins, ins., nis

• sinu

From Latin sinus. Compare Romanian sân.

sin n (plural sinj)

1. breast

• tsãtsã

sin

1. Alternative form of ensin

From Latin signum.

sin m

1. sign

From Spanish zinc, from German Zink, related to Zinke (“point, prong”), from Middle High German zinke, from Old High German zinko (“prong, tine”), allied to zint (“a jag, point”), from Proto-Germanic *tindaz (“prong, pinnacle”), from Proto-Indo-European *(e)dont- (“tooth, projection”).

sin

1. zinc
2. galvanized iron sheet

sin m (plural sînys)

1. sign

• Rhymes: -in

sin c (neuter sit, plural sine)

1. (reflexive possessive) third-person sg pronoun, meaning his/her/its (own)

   Han læste sin bog - He read his (own) book

   Compare: Han læste hans bog - He read his (somebody else's) book

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sin

1. accusative of si

sin

1. water

• Claire Lefebvre, Anne-Marie Brousseau, A Grammar of Fongbe (2002, →ISBN

sin

1. water

• Aspect and Modality in Kwa Languages (2006, →ISBN

sin f

1. Letter of the Arabic alphabet: س‎

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn (“to be”) (with some parts from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) and *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h₁es- (“to be, exist”).

• IPA^(key): /sin/

sin

1. to be

   Ich sin en Mann.

   I am a man.

   Deer seid zu mied.

   You are too tired.

2. (auxiliary) forms the perfect tense of most intransitive verbs

   Ich sin fortgang.

   I am gone.

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

• IPA^(key): /sɪːn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪːn

sin f (genitive singular sinar, nominative plural sinar)

1. sinew, tendon

• san

From Old Irish sin.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪnʲ/

sin

1. (used with the definite article) that

   an buachaill sin ― that boy

sin

1. that

   Sin é mo dheartháir.

   That is my brother.

• ó shin

From Latin sine.

• IPA^(key): /sin/

sin

1. without

• kon

From sī + nē.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siːn/

sīn

1. if however, if on the contrary, but if

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sin

1. water

• Martius, Beiträge zur Ethnographie und Sprachenkunde Brasiliens, page 155

From Old Dutch sin, from Proto-Germanic *sinnaz.

sin m or f

1. direction
2. attention
3. sense, intellect, reason
4. feeling, emotion
5. sense, perception
6. meaning

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• Dutch: zin
• Limburgish: zin

• “sin, sinne (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “sin (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• (originally) IPA^(key): /siːn/

From Old Saxon sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

sîn

1. (personal pronoun, third person, singular, masculine, genitive) of his

   • lohant ret her Zeno hen na Verona to dem vader sin.

     John rode Sir Zeno to Verona, to the father of his.

2. (personal pronoun, third person, singular, neuter, genitive) of it
3. (possessive, third person, singular, masculine) his
4. (possessive, third person, neuter, masculine) its

Personal pronoun:

Possessive pronoun:

• sîner (for the genitive of the personal pronoun)

From Old Saxon sīn.

• wēsen

sîn

1. to be

• Wēsen is a verb with a suppletive conjugation based on multiple Proto-Germanic stems. For many verb forms, authors freely chose between forms based on the stems wēs- and sî-, without semantic impact. This is also true for modern Low German and Dutch. For the forms based on the sî- stem, see the respective entry at wēsen.

sin

1. also, too

From Proto-Athabaskan *xʸən (“shaman's power, medicine, song”). Related to -YĮĮD (“to be holy”), from Proto-Athabaskan *ɣʸən (“to act as a shaman, to be endowed with supernatural powers”).

Compare Ahtna sen (“spiritual power, medecine”), Koyukon sən (“shaman's spirit”), Gwich'in shan (“shamanism, magic”), Tlingit shí, shī, shi(n) (“sing, song”), Eyak tsį, Dena'ina shen, Galice šan (“song”), Lipan shį̀.

• IPA^(key): [sɪ̀n]

sin (possessed form biyiin)

1. song

From Old Frisian sīn.

sin

1. Inflected form of san
2. its

sin

1. accusative and genitive of sii

From Old Norse sinn.

sin m (feminine si, neuter sitt, plural sine)

1. (reflexive) her / his / its / their
2. indicating possession; 's, of

   Det var skolen sin bil.

   It was the school's car.

• “sin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse sinn.

• IPA^(key): /sɪnː/ (example of pronunciation)
• Homophone: sinn

sin m (feminine si, neuter sitt, plural sine)

1. (reflexive) her/his/its/their
2. indicating possession; 's, of

   Det var skulen sin bil.

   It was the the school's car.

• “sin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

sīn

1. his, its, hers

• Middle Dutch: sijn
  • Dutch: zijn
  • Limburgish: zeen

• “sīn (II)”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, her, its, their”, genitive reflexive), from Proto-Indo-European *seynos (“his”), genitive of *só (“that”). Cognate with Old Frisian sīn (“his, its”), Old Saxon sīn (“his”) (Middle Low German sin), Dutch zijn, Old High German sīn (“his”) (German sein), Old Norse sínn (“one's own”), Old English sē (“that, that one, he”). More at the.

• IPA^(key): /siːn/

sīn

1. (rare, chiefly dialectal, reflexive possessive pronoun) His; her; its; their.

   him Hrōþgār ġewāt tō hofe sīnum — For him Hrothgar went to his courtyard

   þæt wīf tredeð mid sīnum fōtom — The woman walked with her feet

   þec Israhēla heriað, herran sīnne — Israel plunders thee, their lords

• Usually occurs in non-West Saxon dialects; rarely occurs in West Saxon prose, where it was replaced early on by the genitive forms: his, hiere and heora.

From Proto-Celtic *sindos (compare Welsh hyn), from Proto-Indo-European *sḗm (“one”) or *só (“that”); strong doublet of in (“the”).

sin

1. that (used after the noun, which is preceded by the definite article)

   a ndéde sin ― that pair (of things)

   Synonym: tall

• Irish: sin
• Scottish Gaelic: sin
• Manx: shen

sin

1. that (as a direct object, used together with a clitic pronoun)
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14d26

     Is i persin Crist da·gníu-sa sin.

     It is in the person of Christ that I do that.

• sina

From Proto-Germanic *senawō.

sin f (genitive sinar)

1. cord, tendon, sinew; nerve

• sin in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Germanic *sīnaz.

sīn m or n

1. (dialectal, reflexive possessive pronoun) his, its
   • that thar sīn ist: that sculun iuuua seolon uuesen

     Those are his lies: that they shall be your souls

     (Heliand, verse 3832)

• Low German: sien

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- (“to be, exist”) (with some parts from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”)). Cognate with Old Dutch sīn (“to be”), Old English sēon (“to be”), Old High German sīn. More at sooth.

sīn (irregular)

1. to be (more at wesan)

• Low German: sön, sennen

sin m

1. his, hers or its

From Old Irish sin.

• IPA^(key): [ʃɪn]

sin

1. that

   Dè tha sin? - What is that?

• mar sin

sin

1. (used with the definite article) that

   an gille sin — that boy

• air a shon sin - nevertheless
• an dèidh sin - afterwards; nevertheless
• cho math ri sin - furthermore
• iad sin - those

From Proto-Slavic *synъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀnus, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

• IPA^(key): /sîːn/

sȋn m (Cyrillic spelling си̑н)

1. son

• IPA^(key): /sîn/

sȉn m (Cyrillic spelling си̏н)

1. sin (letter of various Semitic abjads)

From Proto-Slavic *synъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sū́ˀnus, from Proto-Indo-European *suHnús.

sín m anim (genitive sína or sinú, nominative plural síni or sinôvi)

1. son

From Latin sine. Cognate with English sans, French sans, Italian senza, and Portuguese sem.

• IPA^(key): /sin/, [sĩn]

sin

1. without

• con

• sin embargo
• sin demora

Nominalisation of sina (“run dry”).

sin ?

1. Dryness, the state of having run dry.

Most commonly used when referring to either milk or funds.

From Old Swedish sīn, from Old Norse sínn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz. Cognate with Danish sin, Gothic 𐍃𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (seins), German sein, Dutch zijn.

• IPA^(key): /siːn/

sin c (neuter sitt, plural sina)

1. his (own), her (own), its (own), their (own). (Reflexive possessive third person pronoun).

   Han hämtade sin post för tio minuter sedan.

   He picked up his (own) mail ten minutes ago.

   Compare: Han hämtade hans post för tio minuter sedan.

   He picked up his (somebody else’s) mail ten minutes ago.

   Hon samlar sina dikter i en låda.

   She collects her poems in a box.

   Hunden tycker inte om sitt halsband.

   The dog doesn’t like its collar.

   De tog sina papper och lämnade mötet.

   They gathered their papers and left the meeting.

• The inflection of the word sin is determined by the gender and number of the object: sin for common singular, sitt for neuter singular, and sina for plural, just like an adjective.

sin

1. you (singular), thou

sin (definite accusative sini, plural sinler)

1. grave, burial place

From Translingual sin, from English sine, from Latin sinus.

sin

1. (trigonometry) sine

• cosin

From Old Frisian sinn, from Proto-Germanic *sinnaz.

• IPA^(key): /sɪn/

sin c (plural sinnen, diminutive sintsje)

1. sentence (syntactic unit containing a subject and a predicate)
2. sense (means of experiencing the external world)
3. meaning, sense, significance

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

sin n (plural sinnen, diminutive sintsje)

1. mood
2. opinion, view

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