rin

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Nungu terms

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪn/

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

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"

Borrowed from Japanese 厘(りん) (rin).

rin (plural rin)

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

• INR, N. Ir., NIR, NRI, Nri, RNI

rin

1. you, second person singular pronoun, as object

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

• IPA^(key): /rin/

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• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: rin

rin

1. accusative of ri

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 iŝi3	ilin iŝin3	ilia iŝia3
	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 The second-person familiar pronouns are rare.

² The proposed gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns ri (rin, ria) and ŝli (ŝlin, ŝlia) are not widely used.

³ The proposed third-person feminine plural pronoun iŝi (iŝin, iŝia) is not widely used.

rin

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

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)

• “rin” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

rin

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

From Vulgar Latin *alīnus,^[1] from *alnīnus, from Latin alnus + -īnus. Compare Romanian anin, arin, Aromanian arin, anin.

rin m

1. alder

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

• Riin (Sylt)

From Old Frisian rein. Cognates include West Frisian rein.

rin m

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) rain

   en smitjenen rin ― heavy rain

   Det liket efter rin. ― It looks like rain.

• IPA^(key): /rɪn/

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;

Borrowed from English rim

rin m (plural rines)

1. rim (of wheel)

• rin rin corre corre

• “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

rin

1. romanization of 𒆸 (rin)

• ren — colloquial

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

rin (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈ᜔)

1. alternative form of din

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

rin

1. soft mutation of rhin

rin

1. run
2. walk

rin

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

     F. rin, risheen.

     E. run, rushing.

• 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

Proposed to be from Proto-Yoruboid *rɪ̃̀

• rẹ̀n (Ondo, Ijebu)
• rị̀n (Ekiti)

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ̀/

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

• rin when followed by a direct object

• rẹn (Ondo, Ijebu)
• rịn (Èkìtì)

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ̄/

rin

1. to grate

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ̄/

rin

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

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

• bomi rin (“to irrigate”)

Cognate with Igbo li

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ̀/

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

rin when followed by a direct object.

• IPA^(key): /ɾĩ́/

rín

1. to smile
2. to laugh

typically used with ẹ̀rín (“smile; laugh”)

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

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.

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

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