# ini
## Azerbaijani
### Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *ini (“younger brother”).

### Noun

ini (definite accusative inini, plural inilər)
* (Balakan, Qakh, Sheki, Zaqatala) husband's brother
    Synonym: qayın

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “ini” in Obastan.com.

## Bikol Central
### Alternative forms

* ni

### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

### Pronunciation

* Hyphenation: i‧ni
* IPA: /ʔiˈni/ [ʔiˈn̪i]

### Determiner

ini
* this
* these

#### Derived terms

* kaini

#### See also

* idto
* ito
* iyan

## Gavião do Jiparaná
### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupian *ẽri.

### Noun

ini
* hammock

### References

* Denny Moore (1984) Syntax of the Language of the Gavião Indians of Rondônia, Brazil (in Gavião do Jiparaná), page 25

## Ghotuo
### Noun

īní or ínī
* elephant

### References

* The Phonological Representation of Suprasegmentals →ISBN, Koen Bogers, Harry van der Hulst, Maarten Mous (editors), 1986

## Greenlandic
### Etymology

From Proto-Inuit *ǝnǝ (“place, room, house”), from Proto-Eskimo *ǝnǝ (“dwelling place, house”).

### Pronunciation

* (Nuuk) IPA: /ini/, [i.nɪ]

### Noun

ini (plural init)
* room
* nest

#### Declension
## Hiligaynon
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

### Pronoun

ini
* this

#### See also
## Iban
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /iniəʔ/
* Hyphenation: i‧ni
* Rhymes: -ni

### Noun

ini
* grandmother

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Malay ini, from Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈini/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: i‧ni

### Adverb

ini
* only, just
** 1999, Potret, Kentut Siapa?, Aquarius Musikindo:
    Alami ini dan pasti pernahIt's only natural and everyone has done it before

### Determiner

ini
* this (the (thing) here)
* this (known (thing) just mentioned)
* this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
* this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

### Pronoun

ini
* this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)

#### Usage notes

Together with itu, these can be placed following (in the standard language) or preceding the noun (in the colloquial language), the latter possibly due to the influence of Malay trade and creole languages of eastern Indonesia. Also, this can be shortened colloquially to ni.
* kini (“now”)
* sini (“here”)
* yang ini (“this one”)

## Isoko
### Noun

ini
* plural of oni

## Kapampangan
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni (compare Indonesian ini).

### Pronoun

ini
* this (the thing, item, etc. being pointed)

## Khalaj

| Perso-Arabic | Perso-Arabic | اینی |

### Etymology

From Proto-Common Turkic *ini Cognate with Azerbaijani ini and Salar ini.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ini/
* (husband's brother-in-law)
** (Mehrzamin) IPA: [i̞ni̞]
* (wife's brother-in-law)
** (Chahak) IPA: [ɪni]
** (Mehrzamin) IPA: [i̞ni̞]
** (Vasheqan) IPA: [i̞niː]

### Noun

ini (definite accusative iniñ, plural inilər)
* husband's brother-in-law
    Synonyms: kişi lâlası, qâdın
* wife's brother-in-law
    Synonyms: hər lâlası, qâdın

#### Derived terms

* ini kişisi (“sister-in-law, wife of one's brother”)

### References

* Doerfer, Gerhard (1987) Lexik und Sprachgeographie des Chaladsch [Lexicon and Language Geography of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN

## Kikuyu
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ìnì(ꜜ)/
* (Kiambu) Yukawa (1981, 1985) classifies this term into a group including ngo, iburi, mũgeni, mũndũ, inooro, rũnyarĩrĩ, mwandĩko, and so on.

### Noun

ini class 5 (plural mani)
* liver

### References

* ↑ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1981). "A Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns: A Study of Limuru Dialect." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 22, 75–123.
* ↑ Yukawa, Yasutoshi (1985). "A Second Tentative Tonal Analysis of Kikuyu Nouns." In Journal of Asian and African Studies, No. 29, 190–231.
* Muiru, David N. (2007). Wĩrute Gĩgĩkũyũ: Marĩtwa Ma Gĩgĩkũyũ Mataũrĩtwo Na Gĩthũngũ, pp. 11, 34.

## Kou
### Noun

ini
* (Asas) louse

### Further reading

* Johannes A. Z'Graggen, The Madang-Adelbert Range Sub-Phylum (1975), page 602

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈi.niː/, [ˈɪniː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈi.ni/, [ˈiːni]

### Verb

inī
* second-person singular active imperative of ineō

## Malay
### Alternative forms

* ni (colloquial)

### Etymology

First attested in the Talang Tuo inscription, 684AD. From Proto-Malayic *(i)ni(ʔ), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ini/
* Rhymes: -ini, -ni, -i

### Determiner

ini (Jawi spelling اين)
* this (the (thing) here)
* this (known (thing) just mentioned)
* this (known (thing) about to be mentioned)
* this (known (thing) that the speaker does not think is known to the audience)

### Pronoun

ini (Jawi spelling اين)
* this (The thing, item, etc. being indicated)

#### Usage notes

* kini (“now”)
* sini (“here”)
* yang ini (“this one”)

## Pitjantjatjara
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɪnɪ]

### Noun

ini
* name
* word (especially a word written down)

#### Derived terms

* inini (“to name”)
* initjara (“big shot; VIP”)
* iniwati (“namesake”)
* ini tjitjitja (“childhood (Aboriginal) name”)

## Salar
### Etymology

Cognate with Turkmen ini.

### Pronunciation

* (Jiezi, Gaizi, Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Baizhuang, Muchang, Shuzi, Jishi, Tapo, Mengda, Qingshui, Xunhua, Gandu, Ashnu, Hualong, Qinghai, Ili, Samuyuzi, Yining, Xinjiang) IPA: [ini]
* (Jiezi, Gaizi, Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA: [ine]
* (Chahandusi, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA: [inɨ]

### Noun

ini
* younger brother

### References

* 马伟 [Ma Wei], 朝克 [Chao Ke] (2014) “ini”, in 撒拉语366条会话读本 [Salar 366 Conversation Reader]‎, 1st edition, 社会科学文献出版社 [Social Science Literature Press], →ISBN, page 109
* 马伟 (Ma Wei), 朝克 (Chao Ke) (2016) “ini, ini, ini, ini”, in 濒危语言——撒拉语研究 [Endangered Languages ​​- Salar Language Studies], 青海 (Qinghai): 国家社会科学基金项目 (National Social Science Foundation Project), page 272
* 林莲云 [Lin Lianyun] (1985) “ini”, in 撒拉语简志 [A Brief History of Salar]‎, Beijing: 民族出版社: 琴書店, →OCLC, page 3
* Ma, Chengjun, Han, Lianye, Ma, Weisheng (December 2010) “ini”, in 米娜瓦尔 艾比布拉 (Minavar Abibra), editor, 撒维汉词典 (Sāwéihàncídiǎn) [Salar-Uyghur-Chinese dictionary] (in Chinese), 1st edition, Beijing, →ISBN, page 139
* Tenishev, Edhem (1976) “ini, iny, ine”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, page 338
* Yakup, Abdurishid (2002) “ini”, in An Ili Salar Vocabulary: Introduction and a Provisional Salar-English Lexicon‎, Tokyo: University of Tokyo, →ISBN, page 119

## Serbo-Croatian
### Adjective

ini
* inflection of in:
** masculine nominative/vocative plural
** definite masculine nominative/vocative singular
** definite inanimate masculine accusative singular

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

From English in.

### Preposition

ini
* in

### Adverb

ini
* inside

## Swahili
### Pronunciation

* Audio (Kenya):(file)

### Noun

ini class V (plural maini class VI)
* liver (organ of the body)
* heart (seat of the emotions and feelings)

## Tarifit
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Verb

ini (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵏⵉ)
* (transitive) to say
* (transitive) to announce, to utter, to pronounce
* (transitive) to inform
* (transitive) to call, to be called, to be named
* (transitive) to mean

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Derived terms

* Passive: twanna (“to be said”)
* timenna (“saying, speech”)
* amennan (“braggart”)

## Tashelhit
### Etymology

From Proto-Berber.

### Verb

ini
* to say
* to tell
* to think

#### Derived terms

* tannayt (“saying”)
* iwnnan (“rumors”)

## Tausug
### Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni.

### Pronunciation

* (Sinūgan Parianun) IPA: /ʔini/ [ʔɪˈn̪i]
* Rhymes: -i
* Syllabification: i‧ni

### Pronoun

ini (Sulat Sūg spelling اِنِ)
* this

## Turkish
### Noun

ini
* accusative singular of in
* third-person singular simple present possessive of in

## Turkmen
### Pronunciation

IPA: [iːni]

### Noun

ini
* younger brother
    Coordinate term: aga
* son of brother

## Uneapa
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *(i-)ni (“this”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(i-)ni, from Proto-Austronesian *(i-)ni.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ini/

### Pronoun

ini
* that

### Further reading

* Terry Crowley et al, The Oceanic Languages (2013), page 364
* Johnston, R.L. 1982. "Proto-Kimbe and the New Guinea Oceanic hypothesis". In Halim, A., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. editors. Papers from the Third International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics, Vol. 1: Currents in Oceanic, 59-95.

## Volapük
### Preposition

ini
* into

## Waray-Waray
### Pronoun

iní
* this

## West Makian
### Etymology

Possibly related to the stem found in Ternate ngoni.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈi.n̪i/

### Pronoun

ini (possessive prefix fi)
* second-person plural pronoun, you all

#### See also

V indicates the expected assimilated vowel of the following noun, following standard West Makian vowel harmony.

### References

* Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

## Yosondúa Mixtec
### Etymology

From Proto-Mixtec *ínì.

### Noun

ini
* stomach

### Preposition

ini
* inside

### References

* Beaty de Farris, Kathryn, et al. (2012) Diccionario básico del mixteco de Yosondúa, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 46)‎ (in Spanish), third edition, Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 10

## Zazaki
### Noun

ini (c)
* this
* fountain