kain

Borrowed from Irish cáin.

• IPA^(key): /keɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: Cain, cane, Kaine, Kane

kain (countable and uncountable, plural kains)

1. (Scots law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
   • 1798, Robert Douglas, General View of the Agriculture in the Counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk:

     hens […] in most leases make a part of the rent, under the name of kain, and are generally kept for conveniency or profit.

• “kain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• akin, naik, Kian, Akin, a-kin, Inka, a kin, kina, Naik

From Javanese ꦏꦲꦶꦤ꧀ (kain, “cloth”), from Old Javanese kain (“cloth, garment”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːiːn/
• Hyphenation: ka‧in

kain

1. cloth
2. woven goods (usually for clothes and others)

Borrowed from Tagalog kain, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

• Hyphenation: ka‧in
• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔin/ [ˈka.ʔin̪]

kain

1. (Daet) to eat; to dine
2. (Daet) to feed; to give (someone or something) food to eat
3. (Daet) to eat tape (of a cassette player, etc.)

• kakan
• kaon

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• IPA^(key): /kain/

kain

1. cloth
2. textile

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔin/

káin

1. long skirt

   Synonym: pandiling

From Malay kain, from Classical Malay کاءين, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkain/ [ˈka.ɪn]
• Rhymes: -ain
• Syllabification: kain

kain (plural kain-kain)

1. cloth
2. textile

• “kain”, 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

kain

1. Rōmaji transcription of かいん

From Old Javanese kain (“cloth, garment”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːiːn/
• Hyphenation: ka‧in

kain

1. cloth
2. woven goods (usually for clothes and others)

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2011), “kain”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), 2nd edition, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN
• “kain”, in Javanese Cultural Dictionary [Kamus Budaya Jawa] (in Javanese), Central Java: The Linguistic Center of Central Java [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Jawa Tengah], 2021.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

kain

1. skirt

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• Rhymes: -in

kain (Jawi spelling کاءين, plural kain-kain or kain²)

1. cloth
2. textile

• Indonesian: kain

• "kain" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017

From English kind.

kain

1. kind (of)
   • 2023 July 16, “'Nigerians prefer to welcome criminals into society dan transgender pipo' - Jay Boogie”, in BBC News Pidgin‎^[1]:

     From dinner gowns to see-through dresses, den crop tops, jumpsuits, bum shots and short dresses na di kain clothes wey Jay Boogie dey wear.

     From dinner gowns to see-through, then crop tops, jumpsuits, bum shots and short dresses are the kind of clothes that Jay Boogie wears.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən. Compare Cebuano kaon.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔin/ [ˈkaː.ʔɪn̪], (colloquial) /ˈkaʔen/ [ˈkaː.ʔɛn̪]
• Rhymes: -aʔin
• Syllabification: ka‧in

kain (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜁᜈ᜔)

1. act or manner of eating or consuming
2. mealtime
3. amount of food eaten at a time
4. action of a machine (such as a saw, plow, or knife) on a surface

   Synonyms: kagat, talab

5. taking in something fed to be processed (of a machine)
6. (board games) capture of a piece of an opponent (in chess or checkers)
7. (figurative, colloquial) expiration of unused prepaid phone credits

• “kain”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2025
• “kain”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
• Blust, Robert; Trussel, Stephen; et al. (2023) “*kaen”, in the CLDF dataset from The Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (2010–), →DOI

• kina, akin, naik

From English kind.

kain

1. kind; type

• kain kain
• narakain
• olkain