gin

Etymology 1
Abbreviation of, alteration of from  (modern French ), from , from. Hence (first attested 1941).

Noun

 * 1) A colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
 * 2)  Gin rummy.
 * 3)  Drawing the best card or combination of cards.

Translations

 * Arabic: جِين
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: джын
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 氈酒
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: ĝino
 * Estonian:
 * Faroese: ginn
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: xenebra
 * Georgian:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hawaiian: kini
 * Hebrew: ג׳ין
 * Hindi:
 * Icelandic:
 * Irish: biotáille Ghinéive, jin
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer: ហ្សីន
 * Korean:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: džinas
 * Macedonian: џин
 * Malay:
 * Maori: tīni
 * Norman: dginne, génèvre
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: sineubhar
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: џин
 * Roman:
 * Slovak: džin
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: hinebra
 * Thai: จิน
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: джин
 * Vietnamese: rượu gin,
 * Yiddish: דזשין

Etymology 2
Partly from, , from , an aphetism of ; and partly from , , from , , ,.

Noun



 * 1)  A trick; a device or instrument.
 * 2)  A scheme; contrivance; artifice; a figurative trap or snare.
 * 3) A snare or trap for game.
 * 4) A machine for raising or moving heavy objects, consisting of a tripod formed of poles united at the top, with a windlass, pulleys, ropes, etc.
 * 5)  A hoisting drum, usually vertical; a whim.
 * 6) A pile driver.
 * 7) A windpump.
 * 8) A cotton gin.
 * 9) An instrument of torture worked with screws.
 * 1) A cotton gin.
 * 2) An instrument of torture worked with screws.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Georgian: მახე, ხაფანგი, სატყუარა
 * German: ,
 * Russian:, , ,


 * Bulgarian: скрипец,
 * Finnish: kolmijalkanosturi, ,
 * Russian: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
 * 2)  To trap something in a gin.

Translations

 * Finnish:
 * Irish: scillig
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology 3
, contraction of.

Verb

 * 1)  To begin.

Etymology 4
, but having acquired a derogatory tone.

Noun

 * 1)  An Aboriginal woman.
 * 2) * 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI,
 * From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance.
 * 1) * 1894, Ivan Dexter, Talmud: A Strange Narrative of Central Australia, published in serial form in Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA), Chapter XXI,
 * From my position I could see the gins pointing back, and as the men turned they looked for a moment and then made a wild rush for the entrance.

Related terms

 * blackgin

Etymology 5
Cognate to 🇨🇬: perhaps from, or a compound in which the first element is from  and the second is cognate to  (compare ), or perhaps from.

Conjunction

 * 1)  If.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  alcoholic beverage

Etymology
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Etymology
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Etymology
From, verbal noun of , from (compare 🇨🇬) from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) begetting, birth
 * 2) fetus
 * 3) offspring, child, person
 * 4) generating source

Verb

 * 1) give birth to
 * 2) germinate, sprout; spring forth; originate
 * 3) beget, procreate
 * 4) generate, produce

Noun

 * 1) woman, girl

Etymology
Inherited from.

Verb

 * 1)  to have
 * 2)  to have under one's control, in one's power
 * 3)  to have, to be
 * 4)  to be
 * 5)  to get, to become
 * 6)  to get, to make
 * 7)  to have to
 * 8)  should
 * 9)  to be going to, will
 * 1)  to get, to make
 * 2)  to have to
 * 3)  should
 * 4)  to be going to, will
 * 1)  to be going to, will
 * 1)  to be going to, will

Usage notes

 * Mirrors the use of French ' in some ways. For example, Louisiana Creole ' mirrors French .

Etymology
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Etymology
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Etymology 1
Cognate to dialectal English, which see for more.

Conjunction

 * 1) if

Etymology 2
From.

Preposition

 * 1) Against; nearby; towards.

Etymology
From, from (compare 🇨🇬) from  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬).

Verb

 * 1) beget, produce, father
 * 2) create, engender
 * 3) procreate, reproduce
 * 4) breed
 * 5)  generate

Etymology
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Etymology
Borrowed from.

Pronunciation

 * or

Noun

 * 1)  (liquor)

Etymology
Compare 🇨🇬.

Conjunction

 * 1) if

Verb

 * 1)  to chip of a small part of something
 * 2)  to trim the edges of something with a razor
 * 1)  to trim the edges of something with a razor
 * 1)  to trim the edges of something with a razor