shin

See also: Shin, shin-, and shín

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪn/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.

Noun

shin (plural shins)

1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

   Synonym: tibia

   Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure their shins.

2. A fishplate for a railway

Derived terms

• saber shin
• shin-kicking
• shin pad
• shin splint

 

Related terms

• shinbone

Translations

front part of the leg below the knee

• Afrikaans: skeen, maermerrie
• Arabic: قَصَبَة f (qaṣaba)

  Egyptian Arabic: قصبة الرجل f (ʔaṣabet e-regl)

• Armenian: սրունք (hy) (srunkʻ)
• Belarusian: галёнка f (haljónka), го́лень f (hóljenʹ)
• Bulgarian: пищя́л (bg) m (pištjál)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: canyella (ca) f, canella (ca) f, sec (ca) m, camalló m, espinella (ca) f
• Cherokee: ᎠᏍᎬᏓᎨᏂ (asgvdageni)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 脛／胫 (zh) (jìng), 小腿 (zh) (xiǎotuǐ)

• Coptic: ⲕⲁϣ ⲛⲣⲁⲧ m (kaš nrat)
• Czech: holeň (cs) f
• Danish: skinneben n
• Darkinjung: jarra
• Dutch: scheen (nl) f
• Esperanto: kruro (eo)
• Finnish: sääri (fi)
• French: tibia (fr) m, os long m
• Galician: canela (gl) f
• Georgian: კანჭი (ḳanč̣i), წვივი (c̣vivi)
• German: Schienbein (de) n, Tibia
• Greek: κνήμη (el) f (kními)

  Ancient: κνήμη f (knḗmē)

• Greenlandic: kanaaq
• Guaraní: kupy
• Hebrew: שוק (he) m (shok)
• Hungarian: sípcsont (hu), lábszár (hu)
• Icelandic: sköflungur (is) m
• Indonesian: betis depan, tulang kering (id)
• Irish: lorga f
• Italian: stinco (it) m, tibia (it) f
• Japanese: 脛 (ja) (すね, sune), 臑 (ja) (すね, sune)
• Kabuverdianu: kanela
• Khmer: ស្មង (km) (smɑɑŋ)
• Korean: 정강이 (ko) (jeonggang'i)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: blauzda (lt) f
• Macedonian: пи́ска f (píska)
• Malay: tulang kering
• Maori: tāhau, tātāhau, kauangāwai
• Middle English: schyne
• Moksha: катля (kaťľa)
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Mpade: salio
• Navajo: adzástis
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: skinneben n, skinnebein, tibia

  Nynorsk: skinnebein n, tibia

• Old English: sċinu f
• Ottoman Turkish: اینجك (incik), باجاق (bacak)
• Polish: goleń (pl) f
• Portuguese: canela (pt) f
• Romanian: fluierul piciorului n
• Russian: го́лень (ru) f (gólenʹ)
• Sanskrit: अष्ठीवत् (sa) m (aṣṭhīvat)
• Scottish Gaelic: lurgann f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: голѐњача f, гња̑т m, голен m

  Roman: golènjača (sh) f, gnjȃt (sh) m, golen m

• Slovak: holeň (sk) f
• Slovene: golen f, piščal (sl) m
• Somali: xoog
• Spanish: canilla (es) f, espinilla (es) f, tibia (es) f
• Swedish: skenben (sv) n
• Tagalog: lulod
• Thai: แข้ง (th) (kɛ̂ng)
• Tibetan: ངར་གདུང (ngar gdung)
• Turkish: incik (tr), kaval kemiği (tr)
• Ukrainian: гомі́лка f (homílka), голі́нка f (holínka)
• Vietnamese: ống quyển (vi)
• Volapük: tibiad
• Welsh: crimog f
• White Hmong: please add this translation if you can
• Xhosa: imbande
• Yagara: buyu
• Yoruba: àgbàkùrójú, ojúgun
• Zhuang: please add this translation if you can

Verb

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)

1. To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

   Synonym: shinny (US)

   to shin up a mast

   • 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33:

     "The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."

2. To strike with the shin.
   • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC‎^[1]:

     The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.

3. (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
   • 1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser:

     The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

Derived terms

• shinbone
• shin leaf
• shinny
• shin out
• shin screw
• shin splints

 

Translations

(UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope

• Bulgarian: изкатервам се (izkatervam se)
• Finnish: kivuta (fi), kavuta (fi), kiivetä (fi)
• Russian: кара́бкаться (ru) (karábkatʹsja), лазать (ru) (lazatʹ)

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• sheen

Noun

shin (plural shins)

1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Translations

Semitic letter

• Arabic: شِين (šīn)
• Catalan: xin (ca) f
• Finnish: šin
• French: chine (fr) m, shin (fr) m
• German: Schin n
• Hebrew: שִׁין (he) (shin)
• Russian: шин (ru) m (šin)
• Turkish: şin (tr)
• Yiddish: שין m or f (shin)

See also

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

Further reading

• Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hins, Nish, hins, his'n, hisn, nish, sinh

Esperanto

Pronoun

shin

1. H-system spelling of ŝin

Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic شِين (šīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃín/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʃɪ́ŋ]

Noun

shin f

1. shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Irish

Pronoun

shin

1. Lenited form of sin.

Japanese

Romanization

shin

1. Rōmaji transcription of しん

Kwama

Noun

shin

1. spear
2. war

References

• Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎^[2], SIL International

Louisiana Creole

shin / shyin

Alternative forms

• shyin

Etymology

Inherited from French chien (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛ̃/
• Rhymes: -ɛ̃

Noun

shin

1. (a) dog

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

Pronoun

shin (emphatic shinyn)

1. (personal pronoun) we, us

Scottish Gaelic

Pronoun

shin

1. (colloquial) Lenited form of sin.

Uzbek

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شِين (šīn).

Noun

shin (plural shinlar)

1. the Arabic letter ش

Declension

Declension of shin

	singular	plural
nominative	shin	shinlar
genitive	shinning	shinlarning
dative	shinga	shinlarga
definite accusative	shinni	shinlarni
locative	shinda	shinlarda
ablative	shindan	shinlardan
similative	shindek	shinlardek

Possessive forms of shin

my	singular	plural
nominative	shinim	shinlarim
genitive	shinimning	shinlarimning
dative	shinimga	shinlarimga
definite accusative	shinimni	shinlarimni
locative	shinimda	shinlarimda
ablative	shinimdan	shinlarimdan
similative	shinimdek	shinlarimdek
your	singular	plural
nominative	shining	shinlaring
genitive	shiningning	shinlaringning
dative	shiningga	shinlaringga
definite accusative	shiningni	shinlaringni
locative	shiningda	shinlaringda
ablative	shiningdan	shinlaringdan
similative	shiningdek	shinlaringdek
her/his/its	singular	plural
nominative	shini	shinlari
genitive	shinining	shinlarining
dative	shiniga	shinlariga
definite accusative	shinini	shinlarini
locative	shinida	shinlarida
ablative	shinidan	shinlaridan
similative	shinidek	shinlaridek
our	singular	plural
nominative	shinimiz	shinlarimiz
genitive	shinimizning	shinlarimizning
dative	shinimizga	shinlarimizga
definite accusative	shinimizni	shinlarimizni
locative	shinimizda	shinlarimizda
ablative	shinimizdan	shinlarimizdan
similative	shinimizdek	shinlarimizdek
your	singular	plural
nominative	shiningiz	shinlaringiz
genitive	shiningizning	shinlaringizning
dative	shiningizga	shinlaringizga
definite accusative	shiningizni	shinlaringizni
locative	shiningizda	shinlaringizda
ablative	shiningizdan	shinlaringizdan
similative	shiningizdek	shinlaringizdek
their	singular	plural
nominative	shini	shinlari
genitive	shinining	shinlarining
dative	shiniga	shinlariga
definite accusative	shinini	shinlarini
locative	shinida	shinlarida
ablative	shinidan	shinlaridan	similative	shinidek	shinlaridek