ini

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اینی (ini), from Proto-Common Turkic *ini (“younger brother”).

ini (definite accusative inini, plural inilər)

1. (Balakan, Qakh, Sheki, Zaqatala) husband's brother

   Synonym: qayın

• “ini” in Obastan.com.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni. Cognates with Hiligaynon ini, Kapampangan ini, Malay ini.

ini

1. this

• ni

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

• IPA^(key): /ʔiˈni/ [ʔiˈn̪i]
• Hyphenation: i‧ni

iní (Basahan spelling ᜁᜈᜒ)

1. this
2. these

Inherited from Proto-Tupian *ẽri.

ini

1. hammock

• Denny Moore (1984), Syntax of the Language of the Gavião Indians of Rondônia, Brazil (in Gavião do Jiparaná), page 25

Inherited from Proto-Edoid *E-ni.

īní or ínī

1. elephant

• The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals →ISBN, Koen Bogers, Harry van der Hulst, Maarten Mous (editors), 1986

From Proto-Inuit *ǝnǝ (“place, room, house”), from Proto-Eskimo *ǝnǝ (“dwelling place, house”).

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /ini/, [i.nɪ]

ini (plural init)

1. room
2. nest

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni. Cognate with Capiznon ini.

ini

1. this

• IPA^(key): /iniəʔ/
• Hyphenation: i‧ni
• Rhymes: -ni

ini

1. grandmother

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈini/ [ˈi.ni]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -ini
• Syllabification: i‧ni
• Homophone: INI

From Malay ini, from Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

• ni (apheretic)

ini

1. only, just
   • 1999, Potret, Kentut Siapa?, Aquarius Musikindo:

     Alami ini dan pasti pernah

     It's only natural and everyone has done it before

ini

1. this (the (thing) here)
2. this (known (thing) just mentioned)
3. this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
4. this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

ini

1. this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)

Together with itu, these can be placed following (in the standard language) or preceding the noun (in the colloquial language), the latter possibly due to the influence of Malay trade and creole languages of eastern Indonesia. Also, this can be shortened colloquially to ni.

• kini (“now”)
• sini (“here”)
• yang ini (“this one”)

Borrowed from Bungku [Term?]

ini (plural ini-ini)

1. rice seeds in the form of grains or seeds that will be planted in gardens or fields [since 2024]

• “ini”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

ini

1. plural of eni
2. plural of oni

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.ni/
• Rhymes: -ini
• Hyphenation: ì‧ni

ini

1. masculine plural of ino

Derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni (compare Indonesian ini).

ini

1. this (the thing, item, etc. being pointed)

   Synonym: iti

Perso-Arabic		اینی

Inherited from Proto-Common Turkic *ini Cognate with Azerbaijani ini and Salar ini.

• IPA^(key): /ini/

ini (definite accusative iniñ, plural inilər)

1. husband's brother-in-law

   Synonyms: kişi lâlası, qâdın

2. wife's brother-in-law

   Synonyms: hər lâlası, qâdın

• ini kişisi (“sister-in-law, wife of one's brother”)

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1987), Lexik und Sprachgeographie des Chaladsch [Lexicon and Language Geography of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN

• IPA^(key): /ìnì(ꜜ)/
• (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ngo, iburi, mũgeni, mũndũ, inooro, rũnyarĩrĩ, mwandĩko, and so on.^[1][2]

ini class 5 (plural mani)

1. liver

• Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.

ini

1. (Asas) louse

• Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪ.niː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.ni]

inī

1. second-person singular active imperative of ineō

Cognate with Lugbara ìnnì.

• IPA^(key): [ìnì]
• Hyphenation: i‧ni

ị̃nị̃

1. snake

• Mairi Blackings; Nigel Fabb (2003), A Grammar of Ma'di, New York: Mouton de Gruyter, page 650

• ni (colloquial)

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈini/ [ˈi.ni]
• Rhymes: -ini, -ni, -i

ini (Jawi spelling اين)

1. this (the (thing) here)
2. this (known (thing) just mentioned)
3. this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
4. this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

ini (Jawi spelling اين)

1. this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)

• kini (“now”)
• sini (“here”)
• yang ini (“this one”)

First attested in the Kebon Kopi II inscription, 932 AD. From Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

ini

1. this (the thing here)
   • c. 932, Frederik David Kan Bosch, transl., Kebon Kopi II inscription:

     Ini sabdakalānda rākryañ juru pangāmbat i kawihāji pañca pasāgi marsāndeça barpulihkan hāji sunda

     This is the memorial (containing) the order of the Rakryan Juru Pangambat (issued) in (the year) 854 Śaka and decreeing that the ruler of Sunda will be restored to his former state.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɪnɪ]

ini

1. name
2. word (especially a word written down)

• inini (“to name”)
• initjara (“big shot; VIP”)
• iniwati (“namesake”)
• ini tjitjitja (“childhood (Aboriginal) name”)

Inherited from Proto-Turkic *ini. Cognate to Turkmen ini.

• (Xunhua, Hualong, Qinghai; Gansu; Ili, Xinjiang) IPA^(key): /ini/
• (Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA^(key): /ine/, /inɨ/

ini (3rd person possessive inisi, plural iniler)

1. younger brother

   İnim bularda görik zhopian yarağur colaci.

   My brother took a lot of beautiful (landscape) photos here.

• ağine
• gaga-ini

• Potanin, G.N. (1893), “ini”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия [Tangutsko-Tibetskaja okraina Kitaja i Centralʹnaja Mongolija] (in Russian)
• Poyarkov, Alexei; Ladygin, Vasiliy (1893), “Салары. Этнографический очерк [Salary. Etnografičeskij očerk, The Salars: An Ethnographic Sketch]”, in Этнографическое ОбозрѢніе: Императорскаго Общества Любителей Естествознанія, Антропологіи и Этнографіи [Etnografičeskoje ObozrĚnije: Imperatorskago Obščestva Ljubitelej Jestestvoznanija, Antropologii i Etnografii, Ethnographical Review: Imperial Society of Lovers of Natural History, Anthropology and Ethnography]‎^[1] (in Russian), Moscow: Publication of the Ethnographic Department, page 32
• Rockhill, William Woodville (1894), Diary of a journey through Mongolia and Tibet in 1891 and 1892, Washington: Smithsonian Institution, page 374
• Kakuk, S. (1962), “ini”, in “Un vocabulaire Salar”, in Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae‎^[2], volume 14, number 2, Akadémiai Kiadó, →ISBN, pages 173-196
• 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985), “ini”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎^[3], Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 3
• Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “ini, iny, ine”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow: Nauka, page 338
• Yakup, Abdurishid (2002), “ini”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎^[4], Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 119
• Ma, Chengjun; Han, Lianye; Ma, Weisheng (December 2010), “ini”, in 米娜瓦尔·艾比布拉 [Minavar Abibra], editor, 撒维汉词典 [Sā-Wéi-Hàn cídiǎn, Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 139
• 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chaoke] (2014), “ini”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎^[5], 1^st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 [Social Science Literature Press], →ISBN, pages 102, 109
• 马伟 [Ma Wei] (2016), “ini, ini, ini, ini”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 [Qīnghǎi, Qinghai]: 青海师范大学 [Qinghai Normal University], unpublished finalized project manuscript (国家社会科学基金项目结项稿, 定稿; National Social Science Fund of China), page 272

ini (Cyrillic spelling ини)

1. inflection of in:
   1. masculine nominative/vocative plural
   2. definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
   3. definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

From English in.

ini

1. in

ini

1. inside

• Audio (Kenya):

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ini class V (plural maini class VI)

1. liver (organ of the body)
2. heart (seat of the emotions and feelings)

• (Nador) IPA^(key): [ɪnɪ]

Inherited from Proto-Berber *ini.

ini (verbal noun timenna, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵏⵉ) (transitive)

1. to say, to tell

   A dawem-iniɣ ca n řḥajet. ― I'm going to tell you guys something.

2. to call, to be called, to be named

   Mamec dac-qqaren? ― What is your name? (literally, “What do they call you?”)

3. to mean

   Min yeqqar wawař-enni? ― What does that word mean?

Inherited from Proto-Berber.

ini m (plural inyen or inyan, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵏⵉ)

1. hearthstone (stone which is placed round a fireplace in order to support cooking pots etc.)

   Alternative forms: iney, iniy

   Synonym: (Iqeřɛiyen) imri

• Serhoual (2002)
• Abarrou (2024)

• IPA^(key): /ini/

Inherited from Medieval Tashelhit اِينِي (ini), from Proto-Berber *ini (“to say”), from earlier *iwni, from Proto-Afroasiatic. Cognate with Tarifit ini (“to say”).

ini (intensive aorist ttini, preterite nna, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵏⵉ, Arabic spelling ايني)

1. to say, to tell

   يان د يقّان ا يساوال، ييني الصّاحت.

   yan d iqqan a isawl, yini ṣṣaḥt.

   he who is obliged to speak, must tell the truth.

2. to call

   ماد تّينيم ي غاياد. ― mad ttinim i ġayad. ― what do you call this.

3. to think, to believe, to suppose

   نّيغ يس يدّا. ― nniġ is idda. ― I thought he left.

ini (intensive aorist ttini, Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵏⵉ, Arabic spelling ايني)

1. alternative form of ni (“to mount”)

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

ini (Arabic spelling ايني)

1. (archaic) if

   Synonyms: iɣ, mla, mradis

   آيسيلاد يني ضرّان ― aysilad ini ḍṛṛan. ― except if they are harmful.

   ايني ت يغوا يبليس ― ini t iɣwa iblis. ― if the devil tempts him.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1123a

Inherited from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni.

• (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA^(key): /ʔini/ [ʔɪˈn̪i]
• Rhymes: -i
• Syllabification: i‧ni

ini (Sulat Sūg spelling اِنِ)

1. this

ini

1. accusative singular of in
2. third-person singular simple present possessive of in

Other scripts
Latin	ini‍
Cyrillic	ини‍
Arabic	اینی

• IPA^(key): [iːni]

ini

1. younger brother

   Coordinate term: aga

2. son of brother

From Proto-Oceanic *(i-)ni (“this”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

• IPA^(key): /ini/

ini

1. that

• Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 364
• Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

ini

1. into

iní

1. this

Possibly related to the stem found in Ternate ngoni.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi.n̪i/

ini (possessive prefix fi)

1. second-person plural pronoun, you all

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982), The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics

Inherited from Proto-Mixtec *ínì.

ini

1. stomach

ini

1. inside

• Beaty de Farris, Kathryn; et al. (2012), Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎^[7] (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 10

ini (c)

1. this
2. fountain