🌏 Region(s): Ryukyu (Kunigami: Benoki)
きん : kin | define meaning
kin
Pronunciation: [kiŋ̍]
Definition
Noun
- Clothes; clothing
Etymology
Cognate with Kunigami (Benoki) きん kin and っきん kkin; Okinawan ちん chin "clothes".
Historical Ryukyuan attestations
- A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean, 1795-1798 (1804), by William Robert Broughton, records "Ching, A frock".
- Vocabulary of the language spoken at the Great Loo-Choo island in the Japan Sea (1818), by Herbert John Clifford, records "Cloth, or clothes. Ching".
- Essay in Aid of a Grammmar and Dictionary of the Luchuan Language (1895), by Basil Hall Chamberlain, records "Ching, 'clothes', identifical with the Jap. kinu, formerly used in that sense (conf. kiru, 'to wear,') but now generally signifying 'silk.'".
Spelling
| Orthography | Form |
|---|---|
| Kana | きん |
| Romanization | kin |
| Pronunciation (IPA) | [kiŋ̍] |
意味：きもの【着物】、いるい【衣類】、いふく【衣服】
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Cite this entry: Read, Zachary. (2024, December 24). きん : kin | define meaning. JLect: Japonic Languages and Dialects Database. Retrieved 2025, April 11, from https://www.jlect.com/entry/5819/kin/.