English

Proper noun

Tsin

1. (obsolete, historical geography) Alternative form of Qin: the Chinese region, state, dynasty, era, and empire.
   • 1878, Thomas Rawson Birks translating Franz Delitzsch's citation of Neumann in his Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, p. 247:

     The name Θῖναι, Strabo, Σῖναι, Ptol., Τζίνιτζα, Kosmas, did not obtain currency first from the founder of the dynasty Tsin; but, long before this, Tsin was the name of a feudal kingdom in Shensi, one of the western provinces of the Sinese land, and Feitsa, the first feudal King of Tsin, began to reign as early as b.c. 897.

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• tsinu

Verb

tsin (past participle tsinatã)

1. I dine, have supper.

Related terms

• tsinari/tsinare
• tsinat
• tsinã

Navajo

Pronunciation

Noun

tsin

1. wood, timber

Derived terms

• akʼah sisíʼí tsin (eucalyptus)
• tsikʼi (in the tree, on the tree)
• tsin bigaan (tree limb)
• Tsin Bikeeʼ Dineʼé
• tsin deigházhígíí (rodents)
• tsin ditʼinii (ground squirrel)
• tsin ííʼáii (tree)
• tsin naabąąs, tsinaabąąs (wagon)
• tsin naaʼeeł (ship, vessel, boat, canoe, raft)
• tsin naaʼeeł bee daʼahijighánígíí (battleship)
• tsin naaʼeeł táłtłʼááh naagháhígíí (submarine)
• tsin yąąh dzootʼihí (nuthatch)
• tsin yilátah ayání (giraffe)
• tsin yiłkaałii (woodpecker)