# pinti
## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

Probably from Armenian փնթի (pʻntʻi, “slovenly, untidy”) or Persian پنتی (penti), پینتی (pinti).
Compare also Mamluk Kipchak [script needed] (pinti, “wrethced, helpless”), and Ottoman Turkish پنتی (penti, pinti, “stingy”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [pinˈti]
* Hyphenation: pin‧ti
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

pinti (comparative daha pinti, superlative ən pinti)
* slovenly, untidy

### Noun

pinti (definite accusative pintini, plural pintilər)
* unkempt person

#### Declension
### References

* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pinti”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “pinti” in Obastan.com.

## Catalan
### Verb

pinti
* inflection of pintar:
** first/third-person singular present subjunctive
** third-person singular imperative

## Choctaw
### Alternative forms

* pi̱ti (modern)

### Etymology

Cognate with Chickasaw pinti

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pĩːtí(ʔ)/
* Transcription: pi̱ti'

### Noun

pinti (alienable)
* mouse, rat

#### Derived terms

* pintukfi (“field rat”)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpin.ti/
* Rhymes: -inti
* Hyphenation: pìn‧ti

### Noun

pinti m
* plural of pinto

### Participle

pinti m pl
* masculine plural of pinto

## Kaurna
### Noun

pinti
* pit
* den
* ditch
* grave

#### Derived terms

* pinti miyu

## Lithuanian
### Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pínˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-. Cognate with Latvian pīt, Polish piąć się (“to climb”) and Ancient Greek πένομαι (pénomai, “to toil”) (which apparently got generalized from some domestic work; compare Ancient Greek πήνη (pḗnē, “thread on the bobbin”) > Latin pānus), Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (“to spin”), possibly Old East Slavic понѧва (ponęva) / Russian поня́ва (ponjáva, “blanket”), Old Church Slavonic поукъ (pukŭ) > Russian пук (puk, “bunch, tuft”).

### Pronunciation

* (pìnti) IPA: /ˈpʲɪnʲtʲɪ/
* (pintì) IPA: [pʲɪnʲˈtʲɪ]

### Verb

pìnti (third-person present tense pìna, third-person past tense pýnė)
* (transitive) to plait (chiefly UK), to braid (US)
    pìnti kasàs - to make plaits
* (transitive) to twine, to plait
    vainìką pìnti - to plait a garland
* (prefixed with į-, transitive) to put (into)
    į̃ pláukus gė̃lę įpìnti - to put a flower into the hairs
* (colloquial, transitive) to natter about
    Sunkù supràsti, ką̃ jìs teñ pìna.
       It is difficult to understand what he is nattering about.

#### Derived terms

with prefixes:
* api-pinti
* at-pinti
* į-pinti
** (reflexive) į-si-pinti
* nu-pinti
* pa-pinti
** (reflexive) pa-si-pinti
* su-pinti
** (reflexive) su-si-pinti
* (reflexive) pintis
* pynėjas m, pynėja f
* pynikas m, pynikė f
* pynimas m (verbal noun)

#### Related terms

* (noun) pynė f

#### See also

* megzti

### Participle

pintì m (past passive)
* nominative masculine plural of pintas

### References

* 1 2 3 4 5 “pinti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
* Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 399
* “pinti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

## Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish پنتی (pinti), from Armenian փնթի (pʻntʻi).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pinˈti/
* Hyphenation: pin‧ti

### Adjective

pinti
* stingy, miserly
    Synonyms: cimri, varyemez, eli sıkı
* (dialectal) small
* (dialectal) messy, dirty, slovenly

#### Declension
### References

* ↑ Redhouse, James W. (1890) “پنتی”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 453
* ↑ Kélékian, Diran (1911) “پنتی”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 324
* ↑ Şemseddin Sâmi (1899–1901) “پنتی”, in قاموس تركی [kamus-ı türki] (in Ottoman Turkish), Constantinople: İkdam Matbaası, page 359
* ↑ Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “pinti”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

### Further reading

* “pinti”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “pinti¹”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3857