• IPA^(key):/ʃɪn/

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• Rhymes:-ɪn

FromMiddle Englishschyne, fromOld Englishscinu, fromProto-West Germanic*skinu, fromProto-Germanic*skinō. Cognate withWest Frisianskine,Dutchscheen,GermanSchiene. Not related toskin.

shin (pluralshins)

1. The front part of the leg below the knee; the front edge of the shin bone: Shinbone on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

   Synonym:tibia

   Soccer players have to wear protective gear so they don't injure theirshins.

2. Afishplate for arailway^[1]

• shinbone

shin (third-person singular simple presentshins,present participleshinning,simple past and past participleshinned)

1. To climb up or lower oneself down a mast, tree, rope, or the like, by embracing it alternately with the arms and legs, without help of steps, spurs, or the like.

   Synonym:shinny(US)

   toshin up a mast

   • 1936,Norman Lindsay,The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page33:

     "The minute the door is shut heshins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."

2. Tostrike with the shin.
   • 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, inBBC‎^[1]:

     The warning signs had been there as Peter Cech had already had to palm away a stinging shot from Ronald Zubar but immediately afterwards the Blues goalkeeper could only watch in horror as defender Boswingashinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.

3. (US,slang) To run aboutborrowingmoney hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make apayment.
   • 1845 December 13,New York Commercial Advertiser:

     The Senator wasshinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

• sheen

shin (pluralshins)

1. The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician,Aramaic,Hebrew,Syriac,Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

•  Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• shin hanga(etymologically unrelated)

• Hins,Nish,hins,his'n,hisn,nish,sinh

shin

1. H-system spelling ofŝin

FromArabicشِين(šīn).

• IPA^(key):/ʃín/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa)IPA^(key):[ʃɪ́ŋ]

shin f

1. shin(letter of the Arabic alphabet)

shin

1. Lenited form ofsin.

shin

1. Rōmaji transcription ofしん

shin

1. spear
2. war

• Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016)Gwama – English Dictionary‎^[2], SIL International

• shyin

Inherited fromFrenchchien(“dog”).

• IPA^(key):/ʃɛ̃/
• Rhymes:-ɛ̃

shin

1. (a)dog

FromOld Irishsinni.

shin (emphaticshinyn)

1. (personal pronoun)we,us

shin

1. (colloquial)Lenited form ofsin.

Borrowed fromArabicشِين(šīn).

shin (pluralshinlar)

1. the Arabic letterش