kind

Etymology 1
From, , , , from , , from , from , related to and 🇨🇬. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. . See also.

Noun

 * 1) A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
 * 2) A makeshift or otherwise atypical specimen.
 * 3)  One's inherent nature; character, natural disposition.
 * 4)  Family, lineage.
 * 5) * "She Moved through the Fair" (traditional Irish folk song)
 * My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind.
 * 1)  Manner.
 * 2) Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
 * 3) Equivalent means used as response to an action.
 * 4)  Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
 * 5)  The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
 * 1)  Family, lineage.
 * 2) * "She Moved through the Fair" (traditional Irish folk song)
 * My young love said to me, My mother won’t mind And my father won’t slight you for your lack of kind.
 * 1)  Manner.
 * 2) Goods or services used as payment, as e.g. in barter.
 * 3) Equivalent means used as response to an action.
 * 4)  Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
 * 5)  The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
 * 1) Equivalent means used as response to an action.
 * 2)  Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
 * 3)  The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.
 * 1)  Each of the two elements of the communion service, bread and wine.
 * 2)  The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.

Usage notes
In sense “goods or services” or “equivalent means”, used almost exclusively with “in” in expression.

Synonyms


(1) and/or (2)
 * See also Thesaurus:class
 * See also Thesaurus:class
 * See also Thesaurus:class
 * See also Thesaurus:class

Translations

 * Afrikaans:, tipe
 * Albanian: ,
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: soie
 * Assamese: ধৰণ
 * Basque: genero, klase, tipo
 * Bengali: ,
 * Buginese: jinisi
 * Bulgarian:, , ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, ,
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 類
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: slags,
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: liik,, tõug
 * Finnish:, , , ,
 * French:, ,
 * Georgian: ჯიში,, სახეობა
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εἶδος
 * Hawaiian: ʻano
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: ,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:, , , , , týpa
 * Irish: gné, sórt
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Javanese:, , , , warni
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: جۆڕ
 * Lao: ຊະນິດ
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:, šķirne,
 * Lithuanian: rūšis, veislė
 * Low German:
 * Luxembourgish: Aart, Zort, Genre
 * Makasar: jinisi
 * Malay:
 * Maltese: razza
 * Manchu: ᡥᠠᠴᡳᠨ
 * Maore Comorian: aina
 * Maori: kano
 * Marathi: प्रकार
 * Mongolian:, төрөл зүйл,
 * Nanai: хачин
 * North Frisian:
 * Norwegian:
 * Oromo: gosa
 * Ottoman Turkish: جنس, چشید, نوع, فن, صوی
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Sort
 * Polish:, , , autorament
 * Portuguese:, , , ,
 * Punjabi: ਵਰਗ, ਕਿਸਮ
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: gnè, seòrsa
 * Somali: nooc
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish:, , ,
 * Tagalog:
 * Telugu: ,
 * Thai:, ,
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: вид,
 * Urdu: نوع
 * Venetian:, sòrta
 * Vietnamese:
 * Welsh:


 * Finnish: ,
 * German:
 * Italian:
 * Swahili:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Italian:, ,
 * Persian:
 * Polish: ,
 * Russian:, , ,


 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish: naturalier
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: luontoissuoritus, tavarana
 * French:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish:


 * Dutch: gelijke munt
 * Finnish: samalla mitalla, potut pottuina


 * Hindi:
 * Ido:
 * Marathi:
 * Spanish:, ,

Etymology 2
From, , , from , , from ,.

Adjective

 * 1) Having a benevolent, courteous, friendly, generous, gentle, liberal, sympathetic, or warm-hearted nature or disposition, marked by consideration for – and service to – others.
 * 2) Affectionate.
 * 3) Favorable.
 * 4) Mild, gentle, forgiving
 * 5) Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
 * 6)  Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
 * 1) Mild, gentle, forgiving
 * 2) Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
 * 3)  Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
 * 1) Gentle; tractable; easily governed.
 * 2)  Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.
 * 1)  Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:affectionate

Translations

 * Arabic: حَنُون, لَطِيف
 * Moroccan Arabic: ضريف
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian:, ве́тлівы, дружалю́бны
 * Bulgarian:, , ,
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Cornish: kuv
 * Czech:
 * Danish: rar, venlig
 * Dutch:, , , ,
 * Esperanto: amema, aminda, amplena
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German:, , , , ,
 * Gothic: 𐍃𐌴𐌻𐍃
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: cineálta
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kabuverdianu: roskon
 * Kazakh: ақ көңіл
 * Korean: ,
 * Latin: benignus, mitis
 * Latvian: laipns,, mīļš
 * Lithuanian:, mielas, meilus,
 * Luxembourgish: léif, frëndlech
 * Macedonian: љубезен
 * Malayalam:
 * Maltese: ġentili
 * Marathi: दयाळू
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: leeftolich
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: coibhneil
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: láskavý
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:, , ,
 * Swedish: ,
 * Thai:
 * Ukrainian:, серде́чний, люб'я́зний
 * Vietnamese:
 * Walloon:, , ,
 * Welsh:


 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Italian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Roman:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἤπιος
 * Russian: ,
 * Welsh:


 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Finnish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Ukrainian: слухня́ний


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Russian: ,


 * Ido: ,

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) child

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, Norwegian and 🇨🇬, Low German and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) cheek

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from , related to , from.

Noun

 * 1)  child, kid, non-adult human
 * 2)  first-degree descendant, still a minor or irrespective of age
 * In sommige patriarchale tradities blijven kinderen levenslang onvoorwaardelijk onderworpen aan het vaderlijk gezag, zoals aanvankelijk in het Oude Rome, in andere houdt een zoon op kind te zijn door zijn eigen gezin te stichten
 * In certain patriarchal traditions, children remain subject to unconditional paternal authority for life, as originally in Ancient Rome, in other ones a son ceases to be a child by founding his own family
 * 1)  product of influence, breeding etc.
 * 1)  product of influence, breeding etc.
 * 1)  product of influence, breeding etc.

Usage notes

 * The normal plural is kinderen (a double plural combining the endings -er (archaic) and -en, also found in a few other neuter nouns). The form kinders is heard colloquially, often also humorously.
 * In compounds, the word can take the form kinder- or kind- as a tail. The former is used more often, however.
 * The dimunitive kindelijn is now archaic, but can still be found in some fossilized songs and religious texts.

Etymology
From, from , cognate with 🇨🇬. The sense of “sheep” is derived from the compound, literally “sheep-kind”.

Noun

 * 1)  race,, kin
 * 2) a sheep (especially a ewe)
 * 3)  used as a term of disparagement for a girl (or woman)

Declension
Standard declension:

Alternative declension, used primarily with "race, kind, kin":

Etymology
From, from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) a child in a cradle

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) race, kind, kin
 * 2) creature, being

Etymology
From, from , , from Pre-Germanic , from.

Noun

 * 1) child

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, Norwegian and 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  cheek; a part of the face.

Usage notes
with, see.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) child