# shine
## English
### Pronunciation

* (US, UK) enPR: shīn, IPA: /ʃaɪn/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪn

### Etymology 1

From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English scīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite scān, past participle scinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).

#### Verb

shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shone or shined)
* (intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
    Synonyms: beam, glow, radiate; see also Thesaurus:shine
    Coordinate terms: beam, flash, glare, glimmer, shimmer, twinkle
** 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194:The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
** 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 20, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
* (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.
    Synonyms: gleam, glint, glisten, glitter, luster, reflect; see also Thesaurus:glisten
* (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.
    Synonyms: excel, rule; see also Thesaurus:excel
    My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
** 1867, Frederick William Robinson, No Man's Friend, Harper & Brothers, page 91:“ […] I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.”
** 2011 January 15, Phil McNulty, “Tottenham 0 - 0 Man Utd”, in BBC‎:It prompted an exchange of substitutions as Jermain Defoe replaced Palacios and Javier Hernandez came on for Berbatov, who had failed to shine against his former club.
** 2023 May 25, Dua Lipa, Caroline Ailin, Andrew Wyatt, Mark Ronson, “Dance the Night”, in Barbie the Album‎, performed by Dua Lipa:I can take the heat, baby, best believe That's the moment I shine
* (intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
** 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 10:So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
** 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:Once brightest shined this child of heat and air.
* (intransitive, copulative) To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
** c. 1713, Jonathan Swift, Thoughts on Various Subjects:Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
* (intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.
* (transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
    I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
** 2007, David Lynn Goleman, Legend: An Event Group Thriller, St. Martin’s Press, published 2008, →ISBN, page 318:As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.
* (transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
    Synonyms: belight, shed light on; see also Thesaurus:illuminate
    in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
** 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.

##### Derived terms

* beshine
* fix the roof while the sun is shining
* from sea to shining sea
* knight in shining armor
* knight in shining armour
* outshine
* rise and shine
* shine a light on
* shine down on
* shine down upon
* shine light on
* shine off
* shine on
* shiner
* shine through
* shine up
* shining firmoss
* shining ones
* shining tubeshoulder
* where the sun doesn't shine
* where the sun don't shine

##### Translations

Albanian: shëndrit
Arabic: لَمَعَ (ar) (lamaʕa), وَمَضَ (wamaḍa)
Hijazi Arabic: لَقّ (lagg), لَمَع (lamaʕ), شَعّ (šaʕʕ)
Armenian: փայլել (hy) (pʻaylel)
Aromanian: lutsescu
Assamese: জিলিকা (zilika), উজলা (uzola)
Asturian: brillar, llucir
Azerbaijani: parlamaq (az)
Belarusian: свяці́ць impf (svjacícʹ), ззяць impf (zzjacʹ)
Bulgarian: блестя (bg) (blestja), светя́ (bg) impf (svetjá), сия́я (bg) impf (sijája)
Burmese: ထွန်း (my) (htwan:)
Catalan: brillar (ca), lluir (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 發亮 / 发亮 (zh) (fāliàng), 照 (zh) (zhào), 發光 / 发光 (zh) (fāguāng), 輝 / 辉 (zh) (huī)
Crimean Tatar: yıltıramaq
Czech: svítit (cs)
Danish: skinne, lyse (da), stråle
Dutch: schijnen (nl), stralen (nl)
Egyptian: (psḏj), (wbn), (sḥḏ)
Esperanto: brili (eo), lumi (eo)
Finnish: loistaa (fi), paistaa (fi), hohtaa (fi), helottaa (fi)
French: briller (fr), luire (fr)
Friulian: lusî, sflandorâ, slusorâ, splendi
Galician: brillar (gl), lucir (gl), relucir (gl), coruscar (gl), resplandecer (gl), raiar (gl)
Georgian: კაშკაშებს (ḳašḳašebs), ბრწყინავს (brc̣q̇inavs), ბრჭყვინავს (brč̣q̇vinavs), ანათებს (anatebs), ელვარებს (elvarebs), ჩახჩახებს (čaxčaxebs)
German: leuchten (de), scheinen (de)
Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐌽𐌰𐌽 (skeinan), 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌾𐌰𐌽 (liuhtjan)
Greek: λάμπω (el) (lámpo), ακτινοβολώ (el) (aktinovoló)
Ancient: λάμπω (lámpō), φαίνω (phaínō)
Guaraní: mimbi, rataindy
Hebrew: זָרַח (he) (zarákh)
Hindi: चमकना (camaknā), जगमगाना (hi) (jagamgānā), झिलमिलाना (hi) (jhilmilānā), प्रकाशित करना (prakāśit karnā)
Hungarian: ragyog (hu), fénylik (hu)
Icelandic: ljóma (is)
Ido: lumar (io)
Interlingua: brillar
Irish: taitin
Italian: brillare (it), splendere (it), lucere
Japanese: 輝く (ja) (かがやく, kagayaku), 光る (ja) (ひかる, hikaru)
Korean: 비추다 (ko) (bichuda), 비치다 (ko) (bichida), 빛나다 (ko) (binnada)
Latin: lūceō (la), niteō
Lithuanian: šviesti
Luxembourgish: schéngen
Macedonian: сјае impf (sjae), свети impf (sveti)
Malay: sinar (ms)
Malayalam: തിളങ്ങുക (ml) (tiḷaṅṅuka)
Maori: tīaho
Nahuatl: tona
Norwegian: lyse (no)
Bokmål: skinne (no)
Nynorsk: skine
Occitan: lusir (oc), lusejar, brilhar (oc)
Old Church Slavonic:
Cyrillic: сиꙗти impf (sijati)
Old East Slavic: сиꙗти impf (sijati)
Old English: scīnan
Persian: درخشیدن (fa) (deraxšidan)
Polish: świecić (pl) impf, błyszczeć (pl) impf, błyszczeć się impf
Portuguese: brilhar (pt), luzir (pt), resplandecer (pt)
Quechua: illay, llimphiy, k'anchay (qu)
Romagnol: brilêr
Romanian: străluci (ro), luci (ro), lumina (ro)
Romansch: traglischar, glischar, tarlischar, glischear, targlischier, glüschir
Russian: свети́ть (ru) impf (svetítʹ), сия́ть (ru) impf (sijátʹ), свети́ться (ru) impf (svetítʹsja) (intransitive)
Sanskrit: जिघर्ति (jigharti), रोचते (sa) (rocate)
Sardinian: lúchere, lúgere, luxi
Scottish Gaelic: deàrrs, deàlraich, boillsg
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: сѝјати impf
Roman: sìjati (sh) impf
Slovak: svietiť impf
Slovene: svetiti impf, sijati impf
Spanish: brillar (es), lucir (es)
Sumerian: 𒀯 (mul)
Swedish: lysa (sv), skina (sv), stråla (sv)
Tajik: дурахшидан (duraxšidan)
Telugu: ప్రకాశించు (te) (prakāśiñcu)
Thai: ส่อง (th) (sɔ̀ng), ฉาย (th) (chǎai)
Tocharian A: luk-
Tocharian B: luk-
Turkish: parlamak (tr)
Udmurt: пиштыны (pištyny)
Ukrainian: світи́ти impf (svitýty), сяя́ти impf (sjajáty)
Urdu: چمکنا (camaknā), جگمگانا (jagmagānā), جهلملانا (jhilmilānā)
Vietnamese: toả sáng, chiếu sáng (vi), soi sáng (vi)
Welsh: disgleirio (cy)
Yiddish: שײַנען (shaynen) :
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#### Noun

shine (countable and uncountable, plural shines)
* Brightness from a source of light.
    Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency
** 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC:the distant shine of the celestial city
* Brightness from reflected light.
    Synonym: luster
* Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
    Synonyms: brilliance, splendor
* Shoeshine.
    Synonym: see shoeshine
* Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
    Synonym: see sunshine
** 1685, John Dryden, Sylvae:be fair or foul, or rain or shine
* (slang) Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
    Synonyms: bathtub gin, bootleg, corn liquor, hooch, mountain dew, white lightning, coon-dick, coondick
* (slang, derogatory, offensive, ethnic slur) A black person.
* (cricket) The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
* (slang) A liking for a person; a fancy.
    Synonyms: affinity, liking; see also Thesaurus:predilection
    She's certainly taken a shine to you.
* (archaic, slang) A caper; an antic; a row.

##### Derived terms

* anti-shine powder
* come rain or shine
* cookie-shine
* cut a shine
* earthshine
* fireshine
* get one's shine box
* monkeyshine
* rain or shine
* shine box
* shineful
* shine muscat
* shininess
* shiny
* spit shine
* spitshine
* take a shine to
* take the shine out of
* through-shine
* wondershine

##### Translations

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### Etymology 2

From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen in its causative uses, from Old English scīn (“brightness, shine”), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan (“to render brilliant, make shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causative of *skīnaną (“to shine”).

#### Verb

shine (third-person singular simple present shines, present participle shining, simple past and past participle shined)
* (transitive) To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
    Synonyms: wax, buff, polish, furbish, burnish, smooth, smoothen
    He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
* (transitive, cricket) To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.

##### Translations
### Anagrams

* Enshi, Heins, Hines, NIEHS, hsien

## Irish
### Adjective

shine
* Lenited form of sine.

### Noun

shine
* Lenited form of sine.

## Japanese
### Romanization

shine
* Rōmaji transcription of しね

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

shine
* Alternative form of schyne (“shin”)

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

shine
* Alternative form of schinen