gin

See also: Gin, GIN, ĝin, gīn, and -gin

English

Etymology 1

Abbreviation of geneva or alternatively from Dutch genever (“juniper”) from Old French genevre (French genièvre), from Latin iūniperus (“juniper”). Hence gin rummy (first attested 1941).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: jĭn, IPA(key): /dʒɪn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophone: djinn

Noun

gin (countable and uncountable, plural gins)

  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. (uncountable) Gin rummy.
  3. (poker) Drawing the best card or combination of cards.
    Johnny Chan held jack-nine, and hit gin when a queen-ten-eight board was dealt out.
Derived terms
Translations
References
  • “gin” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2018.
  • gin in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Etymology 2

Aphetism of Old French engin (“engine”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: jĭn, IPA(key): /dʒɪn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophone: djinn

Noun

gin (plural gins)

  1. (obsolete) A trick; a device or instrument.
  2. (obsolete) Contrivance; artifice; a trap; a snare.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Spenser to this entry?)
  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. (mining) 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.

Translations

Verb

gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past and past participle ginned)

  1. (transitive) To remove the seeds from cotton with a cotton gin.
  2. (transitive) To trap something in a gin.
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English ginnen, from Old English ginnan (“to open; to cut open”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɪn/

Verb

gin (third-person singular simple present gins, present participle ginning, simple past gan, past participle gun)

  1. (archaic) To begin

Etymology 4

Borrowed from Dharug dyin (“woman”), but having acquired a derogatory tone.[1]

Pronunciation

  • enPR: jĭn, IPA(key): /dʒɪn/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophone: djinn

Noun

gin (plural gins)

  1. (Australia, now considered offensive) An Aboriginal woman.
    • 1869, Thomas Livingstone Mitchell, Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 1, page 273,
      His next shot was discharged amongst the mob, and most unfortunately wounded the gin already mentioned ; who, with a child fastened to her back, slid down the bank, and lay, apparently dying, with her legs in the water.
    • 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.
    • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XXI, p. 353,
      How they must have laughed about the strutting of her whose mother was a wanton and aunt a gin!
    • 1988, Tom Cole, Hell West and Crooked, Angus & Robertson, 1995, p.179,
      Dad said Shoesmith and Thompson had made one error that cost them their lives by letting the gins into the camp, and the blacks speared them all.
    • 2008, Bill Marsh, Jack Goldsmith, Goldie: Adventures in a Vanishing Australia, unnumbered page,
      But there was this gin there, see, what they called a kitchen girl.
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
  1. ↑ R. M. W. Dixon, Australian Aboriginal Words, Oxford University Press, 1990, →ISBN, page 167.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gin.

Pronunciation

Noun

gin m (plural gins)

  1. gin

Further reading

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (compare English kin, Latin gignō (“beget, bear”), Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit जनति (janati, “beget”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɟɪnʲ/

Noun

gin f (genitive singular gine, nominative plural ginte)

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

Declension

Derived terms

Verb

gin (present analytic gineann, future analytic ginfidh, verbal noun giniúint, past participle ginte)

    1. give birth to (used only in the autonomous form)
    2. germinate, sprout; spring forth; originate
    1. beget, procreate
    2. generate, produce

Conjugation

Derived terms

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
gin ghin ngin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • "gin" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
  • “gainithir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Janday

Noun

gin

  1. woman, girl

Further reading

  • John Gladstone Steele, Aboriginal Pathways: in Southeast Queensland and the Richmond River

Japanese

Romanization

gin

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ぎん

Scots

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡɪn/

Etymology 1

Apparently reduced from gien (“given”), under the influence of gif.

Conjunction

gin

  1. if (conditional; subjunctive)
    Gin A war ye, A wad gang. ― If I were you, I would go.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From Old English [Term?].

Preposition

gin

  1. Against; nearby; towards.
    gin night ― (please add an English translation of this usage example)
    (Can we find and add a quotation of A. Ross (1778) to this entry?)

Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

From Old Irish gainithir (“is born”), from Proto-Celtic *ganyetor (compare Welsh geni (“be born, bear”)) from Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁- (compare English kin, Latin gignō (“beget, bear”), Ancient Greek γίγνομαι (gígnomai, “become”), Sanskrit जनति (janati, “beget”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡʲin/

Verb

gin (past ghin, future ginidh, verbal noun gintinn, past participle ginte)

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

Derived terms

Mutation

Scottish Gaelic mutation
RadicalLenition
ginghin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

References

  • Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
  • “gainithir” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

Spanish

Noun

gin m (plural gines)

  1. gin

Synonyms

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gin.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /jɪn/ or IPA(key): /dʒɪn/

Noun

gin n

  1. gin (liquor)

Anagrams

Wiradhuri

Noun

gin

  1. Alternative spelling of geen
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