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Kain

Kain

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Noun.
(Scots Law)
Poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to his landlord.
Wharton (Law Dict.).

Definition 2025

Kain

Kain

See also: kain and käin

Ewe

Proper noun

Kain

  1. Cain (Biblical character)

Finnish

Proper noun

Kain

  1. Cain (Biblical character)
  2. (rare) A male given name

Declension

Inflection of Kain (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative Kain Kainit
genitive Kainin Kainien
partitive Kainia Kaineja
illative Kainiin Kaineihin
singular plural
nominative Kain Kainit
accusative nom. Kain Kainit
gen. Kainin
genitive Kainin Kainien
partitive Kainia Kaineja
inessive Kainissa Kaineissa
elative Kainista Kaineista
illative Kainiin Kaineihin
adessive Kainilla Kaineilla
ablative Kainilta Kaineilta
allative Kainille Kaineille
essive Kainina Kaineina
translative Kainiksi Kaineiksi
instructive — Kainein
abessive Kainitta Kaineitta
comitative — Kaineineen

Derived terms

  • Kainin merkki

German

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kaɪ̯n/
  • Homophone: kein
  • Rhymes: -aɪ̯n

Proper noun

Kain m

  1. Cain (Biblical character)

Derived terms

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kǎin/
  • Hyphenation: Ka‧in

Proper noun

Kàin m ‎(Cyrillic spelling Ка̀ин)

  1. Cain (Biblical character)

Declension

See also

kain

kain

See also: Kain and käin

English

Noun

kain ‎(countable and uncountable, plural kains)

  1. (Scotland, law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Wharton (Law Dict.) to this entry?)

Indonesian

Noun

kain

  1. cloth
  2. textile

Japanese

Romanization

kain

  1. rōmaji reading of かいん

Tagalog

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

Verb

kain ‎(used in the form kainin)

  1. to eat (consume)

Conjugation

Tok Pisin

Etymology

English kind

Noun

kain

  1. kind; type

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