rin

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Translingual

Symbol

rin

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Nungu.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nungu terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪn/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Etymology 1

From Middle English rinnen, from Old English rinnan (“to run”), from Proto-Germanic *rinnaną (“to run”). More at run.

Verb

rin (third-person singular simple present rins, present participle rinning, simple past ran, past participle run)

1. (ambitransitive, dialectal) To run.
   • 1836, Allan Cunningham, Lord Roldan, volume 1, John Macrone, page 314:

     "Besides," he continued, "I'm no sure that I'm right in rinning—rinning! I'm no rinning , I'm ganging; weel then I'm no sure that I'm right doing a witch's errand, whether rinning or ganging, sae I'se stand still and consider it. […] ."

   • a. 1846, John Imlah, “Where Gadie rins”, in James Grant Wilson, editor, The Poets and Poetry of Scotland, Volume II, Harper & Brothers, published 1876, page 211:

     O! gin I were where Gadie^{[the name of a rivulet]} rins,

   • 1879, I. T. Tregellas [John Tabois Tregellas], Peeps Into the Haunts and Homes of the Rural Population of Cornwall, Netherton & Worth (Truro), Houlston & Sons (London), page 3,

     I had a servant who had lived all his life-time within four miles of Plymouth, who told me of a circumstance which occurred to his mother, thus:— "Mawther ben out gatherin' nits, and when she kimbed hum she went to shet the shetters , and then she seed a man rin out of the dewr weth three spewns weth un, what he had stould, and away he rinned, and my mawther rinned arter un. 'Twas as fine a mewnlight night as cud be seed tew (too); an she cud see un stright on afore her; and hallowed tew she ded as lang as ever her wind beered up, and rinned and rinned; at laest she rinned un out of sight, and never goat the spewns she dedn't"

Derived terms

• rinner

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).

Noun

rin (plural rin)

1. A coin worth ¹⁄₁₀₀₀ of a Japanese yen, no longer in circulation.

Anagrams

• INR, N. Ir., NIR, NRI, Nri, RNI

Arigidi

Pronoun

rin

1. you, second person singular pronoun, as object

References

• B. Oshodi, The HTS (High Tone Syllable) in Arigidi: An Introduction, in the Nordic Journal of African Studies 20(4): 263–275 (2011)

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rin/

• Audio 1:

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• Audio 2:

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• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: rin

Pronoun

rin

1. accusative of ri

See also

Esperanto personal pronouns

		singular				plural
		nominative	accusative	possessive		nominative	accusative	possessive
first-person		mi	min	mia		ni	nin	nia
second- person	formal	vi	vin	via		vi	vin	via
	familiar1	ci	cin	cia
third- person	masculine	li	lin	lia		ili iŝi2	ilin iŝin2	ilia iŝia2
	feminine	ŝi	ŝin	ŝia
	neuter	ĝi	ĝin	ĝia
	gender-neutral2	ri ŝli	rin ŝlin	ria ŝlia
	reflexive	si	sin	sia		si	sin	sia
indefinite		oni	onin	onia		oni	onin	onia

¹ Rare.

² Not widely used.

Galician

Verb

rin

1. inflection of rir:
   1. third-person plural present indicative
   2. first-person singular preterite indicative

German

Adverb

rin

1. (regional, colloquial) alternative form of rein (“inside”)

   Rin in die gute Stube! ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 1929, Alfred Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Olten; Freiburg im Breisgau: Walter Verlag, published 1961, →ISBN, page 170:

     Ja, nu man rin, immer man rin, Kinderchen, das kleene Frauchen auch, ist woll bedudelt, hat recht, goldrecht hat die.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “rin”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[1] (in German)

Japanese

Romanization

rin

1. Rōmaji transcription of りん
2. Rōmaji transcription of リン

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *alīnus, from *alnīnus, from Latin alnus + -īnus. Compare Romanian anin, arin, Aromanian arin, anin.

Noun

rin m

1. alder

References

• Atasanov, Petar (1990), Le mégléno-roumain de nos jours: Une approche linguistique, Hamburg: Buske

North Frisian

Alternative forms

• Riin (Sylt)

Etymology

From Old Frisian rein. Cognates include West Frisian rein.

Noun

rin m

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) rain

   en smitjenen rin ― heavy rain

   Det liket efter rin. ― It looks like rain.

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rɪn/

Verb

rin (third-person singular simple present rins, present participle rinnin, simple past and past participle run)

1. to run
   • 1788, Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne”:

     We twa hae run about the braes, / and pou'd the gowans fine;

     We two have run about the braes, / and picked the daisies fine;

Somali

Etymology

From Proto-Afroasiatic *r-m-. Compare Proto-Semitic *raḥim (“womb”) (from earlier *rVm-ḥ) and Egyptian rmṯ (“human”).

Cognate with Oromo rimaawuu (“to become pregnant”), Burji riimaa (“intestines”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪ̄n/
• Hyphenation: rin

Verb

rin (causative rimi, passive riman, middle rimo)

1. (intransitive) give birth, conceive

References

• “rin”, in Qaamuuska Af-Soomaaliga, 2012
• Reinisch, Leo (1902), Die Somali-Sprache (in German), volume 2, Wien, Austria, page 324

Spanish

Etymology

Etymology tree

Old English rima

Middle English rim

English rimbor.

Spanish rin

Borrowed from English rim.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrin/ [ˈrĩn]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: rin

Noun

rin m (plural rines)

1. rim (of wheel)

See also

• rin rin corre corre

Further reading

• “rin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Sumerian

Romanization

rin

1. romanization of 𒆸 (rin)

Tagalog

Alternative forms

• ren — colloquial

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈɾin/ [ˈɾɪn̪], (colloquial) /ˈɾen/ [ˈɾɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: rin

Adverb

rin (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈ᜔)

1. alternative form of din

Usage notes

• When the preceding word does not end with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, din is used instead, but the distinction isn't always made.

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zin˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʐin˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ɹɨn˧˧]

Combining form

rin

1. reduplicant of rít, only used in rin rít

Welsh

Noun

rin

1. soft mutation of rhin

Mutation

Mutated forms of rhin

radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
rhin	rin	unchanged	unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

West Frisian

Etymology 1

Deverbal from rinne.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɪn/
• (Hindeloopen) IPA^(key): /ˈron/

Noun

rin c (plural rinnen, diminutive rintsje)

1. a walk
2. a river course

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

rin

1. first-person singular present of rinne
2. imperative of rinne

Yola

Verb

rin

1. alternative form of rhin
   • 1867, “OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR“, page 14:

     F. rin, risheen.

     E. run, rushing.

References

• 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 14

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Proposed to be from Proto-Yoruboid *rɪ̃̀

Alternative forms

• rẹ̀n (Ondo, Ijebu)
• rị̀n (Ekiti)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ̀/

Verb

rìn

1. to walk
   1. (with bá) to associate with

      Ọmọlúwàbí ní ń bá ọmọlúwàbí rìn ― Good people associate with good people

   2. to move; to locomote

      Ọ̀kadà jẹ́ ọkọ̀ kan tó ń fẹsẹ̀ méjì rìn ― An okada is a vehicle that goes on two wheels

Usage notes

• rin when followed by a direct object

Derived terms

• arìnrìn àjò (“traveller”)
• arìnrìn àjò afẹ́ (“tourist”)
• rìnrìn àjò (“to voyage”)
• ìrìn (“walk; stroll; trip”)
• ìrìn rírìn (“walking”)
• ìrìn àjò (“journey”)
• ìrìn àjò afẹ́ (“tourism”)

proverbs

• ká rìn ká pọ̀, yíyẹ ní ń yẹni
• àgùntàn tó bá bá ajá rìn, á jẹ̀gbẹ́
• àkèekèé rìn tapótapó
• ìjàkùmọ̀ kì í rin ọ̀sán; ẹni a bí ire kì í rin òru

Etymology 2

Kárọ́ọ̀tì tí à ń rin

Alternative forms

• rẹn (Ondo, Ijebu)
• rịn (Èkìtì)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ̄/

Verb

rin

1. to grate

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ̄/

Verb

rin

1. (ergative) to be moist; to moisten; to dampen

   Amọ̀ yìí ò rin rárá ― This clay isn't moist at all

Derived terms

• bomi rin (“to irrigate”)

Etymology 4

Cognate with Igbo li

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ̀/

Verb

rìn

1. to tickle

   Ó rìn mí lábíyá ― He tickled my armpit

2. to press down

   Ẹrù ń rìn ín mọ́lẹ̀ ― Load weighs it down

Usage notes

rin when followed by a direct object.

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ́/

Verb

rín

1. to smile
2. to laugh

Usage notes

typically used with ẹ̀rín (“smile; laugh”)

Derived terms

• ẹ̀rín (“smile; laugh”)
• rẹ́rìn-ín (“to smile; to laugh”)

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *triːlᴬ (“stone”); Cognate with Thai หิน (hǐn), Lao ຫີນ (hīn), Lü ᦠᦲᧃ (ḣiin), Shan ႁိၼ် (hǐn), Tai Nüa ᥞᥤᥢᥴ (hín), Ahom 𑜍𑜢𑜃𑜫 (rin), Saek หรี่น, Bouyei hinl.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ɣin˨˦/
• Tone numbers: rin¹
• Hyphenation: rin

Noun

rin (Sawndip forms 𬒞 or 𰧄 or 𮀡 or 砛 or 𮀙 or ⿰石土 or ⿱石心 or 碒 or 磊 or ⿰石忍 or 𡊵 or ⿵门石 or 磌 or 鿬 or 䂩 or ⿱火䡛 or 䂝 or 𮀝 or 磷 or 碄 or 斫, 1957–1982 spelling rin)

1. stone; rock