hin

Clipping of English Hindi, from Hindi हिंदी (hindī), from Classical Persian هِنْدِی (hindī).

hin

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Hindi.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Hindi terms

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

hin (plural hins)

1. (historical units of measure) A former Hebrew liquid measure of volume (about 3.8 L).
   • 1973, Bible (New International Version), Exodus 30:24:

     500 shekels of cassia — all according to the sanctuary shekel — and a hin of olive oil.

2. (historical units of measure) An Ancient Egyptian liquid measure of volume (about 0.48 L).
   • 1997, Helaine Selin, Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Westen Cultures:

     The hin for liquids was subdivided dimidially down to ¹⁄₃₂ = 1 ro.

• (Hebrew unit of measure): log (¹⁄₁₂ hin); cab, kab (¹⁄₃ hin); bath (6 hins); cor, kor, homer, chomer (60 hins)
• (Egyptian unit of measure): ro (¹⁄₃₂ hin); khay (¹⁄₃ hin); hekat, heqat (10 hins); khar (100 hins, later 160 or 200 hins)

• "Weights and Measures" at Oxford Biblical Studies Online

• NHI, NIH, ihn

hin (definite accusative hini, plural hinlər)

1. coop for poultry

From Arabic حِين (ḥīn)

hin (definite accusative hini, plural hinlər)

1. moment, time

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “hin”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[1] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 2, Baku: Şərq-Qərb

From Proto-Brythonic *hin, from Proto-Celtic *sīnā (“weather”). Cognate with Irish síon (“bad weather”) and Welsh hin (“weather”).

hin f (plural hinyow)

1. climate

From Old Danish hin, from Old Norse hinn. The other Germanic languages have a similar, but phonologically distinct pronoun in the same function: Proto-Germanic *jainaz, cf. Old English ġeon, Old High German jēner, and Gothic 𐌾𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (jains).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhiˀn], [hin]

hin c (neuter hint, plural hine)

1. (archaic) that (distant in space or time)

• “hin” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “hin” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

From Old Norse hinn.

• IPA^(key): /hiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

hin m or f (demonstrative)

1. the other, that, the

hin m or f (definite)

1. the

Expressive; possibly has roots in various ancient interjections, e.g. Latin hem (“eh?, oh!”), hui (“ho!, ooh!”)

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃/

hin

1. (onomatopoeia, colloquial) heh, ooh, hehe!

• IPA^(key): /(h)ĩ/

hin

1. fruit

From Middle High German hin, from Old High German hina. Cognate with Dutch heen. Compare also English hence.

• IPA^(key): /hɪn/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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hin

2. there, thither; denotes direction towards a place that is not the speaker’s current location.

   Coordinate term: her

   • 1912, Luther, John: 13:36 in the Bible]:

     Book of John XIII. 36. Spricht Simon Petrus zu ihm: HERR, wo gehst du hin? Jesus antwortete ihm: Wo ich hin gehe, kannst du mir diesmal nicht folgen; aber du wirst mir nachmals folgen

     Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now; but thou shalt follow me afterwards.

hin (indeclinable) (predicative only)

1. (colloquial) gone (somewhere), left, situated

   Ich sehe mal nach, wo die Pakete hin sind. ― I'll check where the packages went.

   1. (figurative) dead or out of order, kaput

      Synonyms: kaputt, tot, hinüber

   2. (figurative) exhausted, depleted
2. (colloquial, chiefly in the form hin und weg) captivated, hooked

   Synonym: hingerissen

3. (colloquial) Expresses the time left until a certain event in the future.

   Bis Weihnachten ist ja noch was hin. ― Christmas is still some time away.

• “hin” in Duden online
• “hin”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)

hin

1. inflection of hinn (“that”):
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

hin

1. inflection of hinn (“the”):
   1. nominative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative neuter plural

hin

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひん

• IPA^(key): /ˈhin/ [ˈhi̞n]
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: hin

hin

1. dialectal form of sin

Dialectal synonyms and variants of sin
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Group	Province	Municipality	Part of municipality	Barangay	Terms	Words
Northern / Applai	Mountain Province	Sagada	Pidlisan / Dapliyan (north)	Aguid		sin
				Pide		sin
				Fidelisan		sin
				Bangaan		sin
				Madungo		sin
				Tanulong		sin
Southern / Central	Mountain Province	Bauko	Lower Bauko	Bila		hin
				Banao		hin
				Poblacion		hin
				Otucan		hin
		Sabangan	Upper Sabangan	Bun-ayan		hin
				Bao-angan		hin
				Busa		hin
				Camatagan		hin
				Capinitan		hin
				Gayang		hin
				Namatec		hin
				Napua		hin
				Pingad		hin
			Lower Sabangan	Data		sin
				Lagan		sin
				Losad		sin
				Poblacion		sin
				Supang		sin
				Tambingan		sin
		Tadian	Zone 2 / SULUMASIDE	Bantey		hin
				Batayan		hin
				Duagan		hin
				Lubon		hin
				Mabalite		hin
				Masla		hin
				Sumadel		hin
			Zone 3 / Sunny Side	Banaao		hon
				Cadad-anan		hon
				Cagubatan		hon
				Dacudac		hon
				Lenga		hon
				Pandayan		hon

hin

1. alternative form of hine

From Old Norse hinn.

• IPA^(key): /hɪnː/

hin m (feminine hi, neuter hitt, plural hine)

1. the other

   Me skal til hi sida av fjorden.

   We are going to the other side of the fjord.

• “hin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

hin

1. inflection of hinn:
   1. feminine singular nominative
   2. neuter plural nominative/accusative

hin

1. inflection of hinn:
   1. feminine singular nominative
   2. neuter plural nominative/accusative

Onomatopoeia

hin

1. neigh (horse sound)

• “hin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

From Old Norse hinn.

The noun, a noa-name, might have been formed by ellipsis of phrases such as hin håle and hin onde.

hin

1. (demonstrative, obsolete) other, the other one; that

• hinsidan (“the other side”)
• hinsides (“on the other side”)

hin

1. (obsolete except in set phrases, before an adjective) the (definite article)

• hin håken (“the devil”) (a euphemism for hin håle)
• hin håle (“the devil”) (literally, “the hard one”)
• hin onde (“the devil”) (literally, “the evil one”)

hin c

1. (euphemistic) the devil

   Synonyms: den lede, den onde, hin håle, hin onde, skam

• “hin”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “hin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “hin”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• Svensk etymologisk ordbok ("Swedish etymological dictionary")

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hin˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hin˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [hɨn˧˧]

hin

1. (of a nose) narrow

• Hồ Ngọc Đức, editor (2003), “hin”, in Việt–Anh‎^[3] (DICT), Leipzig: Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details), archived from the original on 12 November 2024

• inh, nhi

From Middle Welsh hin, from Proto-Brythonic *hin, from Proto-Celtic *sīnā.

• IPA^(key): /hiːn/

hin f (plural hinoedd, not mutable)

1. (dated) weather

   Synonym: tywydd

• bwa'r him (“rainbow”)
• hinsawdd (“climate”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke, et al., editors (1950–present), “hin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

From Old Frisian henn, from Proto-West Germanic *hannju.

hin c (plural hinnen, diminutive hintsje)

1. hen
2. chicken meat

• “hin (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

hin

1. alternative form of hen

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 46