# shin
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn

### Etymology 1

From Middle English schyne, from Old English scinu, from Proto-West Germanic *skinu, from Proto-Germanic *skinō. Cognate with West Frisian skine, Dutch scheen, German Schiene. Not related to skin.

#### Noun

shin (plural shins)
* 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 their shins.
* A fishplate for a railway

##### Derived terms

* saber shin
* shin-kicking
* shin pad
* shin splint

##### Related terms

* shinbone

##### Translations

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#### Verb

shin (third-person singular simple present shins, present participle shinning, simple past and past participle shinned)
* 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)
    to shin up a mast
** 1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 33:"The minute the door is shut he shins down a water-pipe, hops on his motor-cycle, and is off at full speed."
* To strike with the shin.
** 2011 January 5, Mark Ashenden, “Wolverhampton 1 - 0 Chelsea”, in BBC‎: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 Boswinga shinned the ball into his own net from Hunt's corner.
* (US, slang) To run about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as when trying to make a payment.
** 1845 December 13, New York Commercial Advertiser:The Senator was shinning around, to get gold for the rascally bank-rags which he was obliged to take.

##### Derived terms

* shinbone
* shin leaf
* shinny
* shin out
* shin screw
* shin splints

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Alternative forms

* sheen

#### Noun

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

##### Translations
### See also

* Appendix:Hebrew alphabet

### Further reading

* Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### References

* ↑ Edward H[enry] Knight (1877) “Shin”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volumes III (REA–ZYM), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC..

### Anagrams

* Hins, Nish, hins, his'n, hisn, nish, sinh

## Esperanto
### Pronoun

shin
* H-system spelling of ŝin

## Hausa
### Etymology

From Arabic شِين (šīn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃín/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [ʃɪ́ŋ]

### Noun

shin f
* shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

## Irish
### Pronoun

shin
* Lenited form of sin.

## Japanese
### Romanization

shin
* Rōmaji transcription of しん

## Kwama
### Noun

shin
* spear
* war

### References

* Goldberg, Justin, Asadik, Habte, Bekama, Jiregna, Mengistu, Mulat (2016) Gwama – English Dictionary‎, SIL International

## Louisiana Creole
### Alternative forms

* shyin

### Etymology

Inherited from French chien (“dog”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃɛ̃/
* Rhymes: -ɛ̃

### Noun

shin
* (a) dog

## Manx
### Etymology

From Old Irish sinni.

### Pronoun

shin (emphatic shinyn)
* (personal pronoun) we, us

## Scottish Gaelic
### Pronoun

shin
* (colloquial) Lenited form of sin.

## Uzbek
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic شِين (šīn).

### Noun

shin (plural shinlar)
* the Arabic letter ش