# zain
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from French zain.

### Noun

zain (plural zains)
* (archaic) A horse of a dark colour with no lighter spots.
** 1905, Sir William Ridgeway, The origin and influence of the thoroughbred horse:Azara estimates the proportion of bays amongst these horses to be about ninety to ten zains, that is, entirely dark-coloured without any white; and there is not one black in two thousand; pied and greys occur sometimes […]

### Anagrams

* Nazi, azin, nazi, zina

## Basque
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /s̻ai̯n/ [s̻ãĩ̯n]
* IPA: (most dialects) /s̻ai̯n/ [s̻ãĩ̯n]
* IPA: (Biscayan) /s̺ai̯n/ [s̺ãĩ̯n]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ai̯n
* Hyphenation: zain

### Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Alternative forms

* zan (Biscayan)

#### Noun

zain inan
* vein
    Synonyms: zainurdin, bena
* (colloquial) nerve
    Synonyms: zaintzuri, nerbio
* (colloquial) tendon, sinew
    Synonyms: zurda, tendoi
* artery
    Synonyms: zaingorri, arteria
* varicose vein
    Synonym: barize
* vigor, strength
* (figuratively) root
    Synonyms: zuztar, erro

##### Derived terms

* zainar
* zainbelar
* zaineten
* zaingabetu
* zaingorri
* zaintsu
* zaintzuri
* zainurdin
* zainzuri

### Etymology 2

From Proto-Basque *zani.

#### Alternative forms

* zan (Biscayan)

#### Noun

zain anim
* guard, watchman
* shepherd
    Synonym: artzain

##### Derived terms

* abeltzain
* artzain
* ertzain
* Ertzaintza
* -zain
* zainaldi
* zaindari
* zaindaritza
* zaindu
* zaingela
* zainketa
* zainlari
* zainpe
* zaintza
* zaintzaile
* zaintzaletza

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

zain
* Third-person singular (hura), taking informal second-person singular feminine (hiri) as indirect object, present indicative form of izan.

### References

* ↑ “zain” in Etymological Dictionary of Basque by R. L. Trask, sussex.ac.uk

### Further reading

* “zain”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
* “zain”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

## Cimbrian
### Alternative forms

* soi (Luserna)

### Etymology

From Middle High German sein, sīn, from Old High German sīn, from Proto-West Germanic *sīn, from Proto-Germanic *sīnaz (“his, hers, its, their own”). Cognate with German sein.

### Determiner

zain (plural zain, bon/dar zaindarn) (Sette Comuni)
* his, her, its, their
    Dar zain zun machet in zòllander. ― His son is in the military.
    An tòchtar bon zaindarn ist an léeraren. ― Their daughter is a teacher.
* his, hers, its, theirs
    De khua ist zain. ― The cow is hers.

#### Usage notes

The following rules apply to all Sette Comuni Cimbrian possessive determiners:
* They are inflected by number and gender in only exclamations (i.e. vocative case).
* Before nouns, they are inflected for number only and follow the corresponding definite article (a form of dar).
** The plural ending is -en, or -∅ when the pronoun itself ends in -n.
* Predicatively, they are uninflected and the definite article is not used.
* Following bon (“of”) or dar (the only surviving trace of a genitive definite article; used for all numbers and genders) they end in -darn.

#### See also
### References

* “zain” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

## French
### Etymology

Borrowed from Italian zaino.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /zɛ̃/
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

zain (feminine zaine, masculine plural zains, feminine plural zaines)
* Having no white markings (of the coat of a horse, dog etc.)

### Further reading

* “zain”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.