hin

hin

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hindi.

hin (plural hins)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L).
   • 1973, Bible (New International Version), Exodus 30:24:

     500 shekels of cassia — all according to the sanctuary shekel — and a hin of olive oil.

2. (historical units of measure) An Ancient Egyptian liquid measure of volume (about 0.48 L).
   • 1997, Helaine Selin, Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Westen Cultures:

     The hin for liquids was subdivided dimidially down to ¹⁄₃₂ = 1 ro.

• (Hebrew unit of measure): log (¹⁄₁₂ hin); cab, kab (¹⁄₃ hin); bath (6 hins); cor, kor, homer, chomer (60 hins)
• (Egyptian unit of measure): ro (¹⁄₃₂ hin); khay (¹⁄₃ hin); hekat, heqat (10 hins); khar (100 hins, later 160 or 200 hins)

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

• NHI, NIH, ihn

From Old Norse hinn. The other Germanic languages have a similar, but phonologically distinct pronoun in the same function: Proto-Germanic *jainaz, cf. Old English ġeon, Old High German jēner, and Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhiˀn], [hin]

hin c (neuter hint, plural hine)

1. (archaic) that (distant in space or time)

From Old Norse hinn.

• IPA^(key): /hiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

hin m or f (demonstrative)

1. the other, that, the

hin m or f (definite)

1. the

Expressive; possibly has roots in various ancient interjections, e.g. Latin hem (“eh?, oh!”), hui (“ho!, ooh!”)

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃/

hin

1. (onomatopeia, colloquial) heh, ooh, hehe!

• IPA^(key): /(h)ĩ/

hin

1. fruit

From Old High German hina; compare English hence.

• IPA^(key): /hɪn/

hin

1. Used to denote direction away from the speaker.
   • 1912, Luther, John: 13:36 in the Bible]:

     w:Book of John XIII. 36. Spricht Simon Petrus zu ihm: HERR, wo gehst du hin? Jesus antwortete ihm: Wo ich hin gehe, kannst du mir diesmal nicht folgen; aber du wirst mir nachmals folgen

     Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.

hin (indeclinable, predicative only)

1. (colloquial) haven taken its course, situated, left

   Synonym: hingegangen

   Ich werde nachsehen, wo die Pakete hin sind. ― I'll check where the packages went.

2. (colloquial) on the fritz, bruck, out of order

   Synonyms: hinüber, kaputt

3. (colloquial) exhausted, depleted
4. (colloquial) captivated, fully on wass

   Synonyms: (all also formal) hingerissen, hin und weg, hinüber

• dahin

• hin-
• hin und wieder

• “hin” in Duden online
• “hin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

hin (demonstrative)

1. that (female)

hin (f)

1. the (definite article)

hin

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひん

hin

1. Alternative form of hine

From Old Norse hinn.

• IPA^(key): /hɪnː/

hin m (feminine hi, neuter hitt, plural hine)

1. the other

   Me skal til hi sida av fjorden.

   We are going to the other side of the fjord.

• “hin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

hin

1. inflection of hinn:
   1. feminine singular nominative
   2. neuter plural nominative/accusative

hin

1. inflection of hinn:
   1. feminine singular nominative
   2. neuter plural nominative/accusative

hin

1. neigh (horse sound)

• “hin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

From Old Norse hinn.

The noun has been formed by ellipsis of phrases such as hin håle and hin onde.

hin

1. (demonstrative, obsolete) other, the other one; that

• hinsidan (“the other side”)
• hinsides (“on the other side”)

hin

1. (obsolete except in set phrases, before an adjective) the (definite article)

• hin håken (“the devil”) (a euphemism for hin håle)
• hin håle (“the devil”) (literally, “the hard one”)
• hin onde (“the devil”) (literally, “the evil one”)

hin c

1. the devil

• Svensk etymologisk ordbok ("Swedish etymological dictionary")
• hin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hin˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hin˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [hɨn˧˧]

hin

1. (of a nose) narrow

• "hin" in Hồ Ngọc Đức, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

• inh, nhi

From Proto-Brythonic *hin, from Proto-Celtic *sīnā.

• IPA^(key): /hiːn/

hin f (plural hinoedd, not mutable)

1. (dated) weather

   Synonym: tywydd

• hinsawdd (“climate”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

hin c (plural hinnen, diminutive hintsje)

1. hen
2. chicken meat

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

hin

1. Alternative form of hen

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 46