English

Alternative forms

• Bilin, Bilen, Belen, Bilein

Proper noun

Blin

1. An ethnic group from Eritrea.
2. Their Afro-Asiatic language.

Synonyms

• (ethnic group): Bogos

See also

• Ethnologue entry for Blin, byn

• Wiktionary's coverage of Blin terms

English

Verb

blin ‎(third-person singular simple present blins, present participle blinning, simple past blinned or blan, past participle blinned or blun)

1. (obsolete) To cease from.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.v:

     nathemore for that spectacle bad, / Did th'other two their cruell vengeaunce blin [...].

2. (archaic or dialectal) To stop, desist; to cease to move, run, flow, etc., let up.
   • 1880, Margaret Ann Courtney, English Dialect Society, Glossary of words in use in Cornwall:

     A child may cry for half an hour, and never blin ; it may rain all day, and never blin ; the train ran 100 miles, and never blinned.

   • 1908, John Masefield, A sailor's garland:

     Thus blinned their boast, as we well ken

Noun

blin

1. (obsolete) cessation; end

Etymology 2

From Russian блин ‎(blin, “pancake, flat object”).

1. A blintz.

Anagrams

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