# tin
## Translingual
### Symbol

tin
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tindi.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Tindi terms

## English
### Etymology

From Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-West Germanic *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: tĭn, IPA: /tɪn/, [tʰɪn]
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (UK):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn
* Homophones: thin (th-stopping); ten (pin–pen merger)

### Noun

tin (countable and uncountable, plural tins)
* (uncountable) A malleable, ductile, metallic element, resistant to corrosion, with atomic number 50 and symbol Sn.
* (New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Ireland, British, countable) An airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food, or hold a liquid or some other product.
    a tin of baked beans; a tobacco tin; a tin of shoe polish
    Several tins of paint were needed to paint the house.
    empty tins, cans, and plastic containers are recycled in the blue bins.
** 1943 November and December, G. T. Porter, “The Lines Behind the Lines in Burma”, in Railway Magazine, page 325:When it arrived, the train was headed by a "K" class 4-6-0 wood-burning locomotive, and a water-tank wagon next to the tender was immediately besieged by women and girls, clad in their picturesque national costume, all with empty kerosene tins for water, a scene which was re-enacted at each stop down the line.
* (countable) A metal pan used for baking, roasting, storing food, etc.
    muffin tin
    roasting tin
    baking tin
** 2023 October 28, “Next generation ‘clasico’: Bellingham faces 1st game against a Barcelona brimming with young talents”, in The Washington Times‎:And, indeed, after a tense round of rolling, shaping and filling delicate pastry dough, Rowan can’t even pull his overstuffed pies out of the tins without them bleeding and oozing fruit filling.
** 2023 April 30, “The Lions missed their chance, and the Eagles are smarter than everybody”, in The Washington Times‎:Jones was insanely productive last season. He is a clinical route-runner who can line up at any position and catches everything.
* (countable, squash) The bottom part of the front wall, which is "out" if a player strikes it with the ball.
* (slang, dated, uncountable) money, especially silver money.
** 1844, Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby:The father is a cotton lord, and they all have loads of tin, you know
** 1861, Philip William Perfitt, The Pathfinder, page 377:When all your tin is gone and spent, / And you've not a mag for bread or rent
* (slang, uncountable) computer hardware.

#### Synonyms

* (airtight container): can (especially US), tin can

#### Derived terms

* alpha tin
* baking tin
* beta tin
* biscuit tin
* black tin
* butter of tin
* cake tin
* do exactly what it says on the tin
* (do) what it says on the tin
* give a tin shit
* gray tin, grey tin
* Indian tin
* indium tin oxide
* lead-tin
* like a cat on a hot tin roof
* mess tin
* muffin tin
* organotin
* pie tin
* put the tin lid on it
* roasting tin
* roofing tin
* salt of tin
* snap-tin
* stream tin
* tetraethyl tin, tetraethyltin
* tetraphenyl tin, tetraphenyltin
* tin anniversary
* tin bath
* tin can
* tin chloride
* tin cry
* tin derby
* tin dichloride
* tin dioxide
* tin dip
* tin disease
* tin dog
* tin ear
* tin-eared
* tin fish
* tin foil
* tin frame
* tin-glazed
* tin god
* tin hat
* tin-horn
* tin knocker
* tinless
* tin lid
* tin liquor
* tin Lizzie
* tin lizzie
* tin man
* tin mine
* tinnie
* tinny
* tin opener
* tin ore
* tin oxide
* tin penny
* tin pentachloride
* tin pest
* tin plate
* tin-plate
* tin-plated
* tin-plater
* tin-plating
* tin-pot
* tin protochloride
* tin pyrites
* tin roof pie
* tin roof sundae
* tin salt
* tin sandwich
* tin snips
* tin soldier
* tin tab
* tin tabernacle
* tin tetrachloride
* tin tetraethyl
* tin tetraphenyl
* tin whisker
* tin whistle
* tin-white cobalt
* tributyl tin, tributyltin
* trimethyl tin, trimethyltin
* white tin
* wood tin

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### Adjective

tin (not comparable)
* Made of tin.
* Made of galvanised iron or built of corrugated iron.
** 1939, George Orwell, Coming up for Air, London: Victor Gollancz:[I]n fact he was a big noise, literally, in the Baptist Chapel, known locally as the Tin Tab[ernacle] - whereas my family were 'church' and Uncle Ezekiel was an infidel at that.

#### Synonyms

* tinnen (obsolete)

#### Derived terms

* tin tabernacle
* tin bath

#### Translations
### Verb

tin (third-person singular simple present tins, present participle tinning, simple past and past participle tinned)
* (transitive) To place into a metal can (ie. a tin; be it tin, steel, aluminum) in order to preserve.
* (transitive) To cover with tin.
* (transitive) To coat with solder
** To coat with solder, in preparation for soldering, to ensure a good solder joint
** To coat with solder, in order to consolidate braided wire, so as to make contact with all strands and reduce fragility of the fraying wire

#### Coordinate terms

* bronze
* (to preserve): can, bottle
* (to prepare for soldering): wet, flux

#### Derived terms

* pre-tin
* tinned dog

#### Translations

    The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

### See also

* Babbitt metal
* bronze
* bell metal
* cassiterite
* die-casting alloy
* pewter
* phosphor bronze
* soft solder
* stann-, stanno-
* stannane
* stannary
* stannate
* stannic
* stannide
* stanniferous
* stannified
* stannine
* stannite
* stannolite
* stannotype
* stannous
* stannum
* white metal

### References

* (money): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary

### Anagrams

* INT, ITN, i'n't, in't, int, int., nit

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tin (uncountable)
* tin

## Atong (India)
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tin/

### Noun

tin (Bengali script তিন)
* corrugated iron

### References

* van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

## Azerbaijani
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinlər)
* corner (the space in the angle between converging lines or walls which meet in a point)
* intersection
    Synonym: (South Azerbaijani) çaharrah

#### Declension
## Cypriot Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

### Noun

tin m (collective)
* figs

### References

* Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 177

## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse tin. Compare German Zinn.

### Noun

tin n (singular definite tinnet, not used in plural form)
* tin (metal, metallic element)

#### Derived terms

* fortinne
* loddetin
* tinkande
* tinkrus
* tinmine
* tinske
* tinsoldat
* tintallerken

### References

* “tin” in Den Danske Ordbog

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch tin, ten, from Old Dutch *tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɪn/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tin
* Rhymes: -ɪn

### Noun

tin n (uncountable)
* tin (metal, metallic element)

#### Derived terms

* soldeertin
* tinnen

#### Descendants

* Afrikaans: tin
* Negerhollands: den

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰiːn/
* Rhymes: -iːn

### Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, uncountable)
* tin (chemical element)

#### Declension
## Franco-Provençal
### Alternative forms

* tio, tino

### Etymology

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *teum. Doublet of ton (possessive determiner).

### Pronoun

tin (feminine singular tina, masculine plural tins, feminine plural tines) (ORB, broad)
* yours (second-person singular possessor)

#### See also

| singular | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic$^1$ | possessive$^2$ |
| 1st person | jo | mè | mè | mè | min |
| 2nd person | te | tè | tè | tè | tin |
| 3rd person masculine | il | lo / le | lui | lui | sin |
| 3rd person feminine | el | la | lyé | lyé | | sin |
| 3rd person neuter | o | o | y | — | sin |
| 3rd person reflexive | — | sè | sè | sè | | | sin |
| plural | nominative | accusative | dative | tonic$^1$ | possessive$^2$ |
| 1st person | nos | nos | nos | nos | noutro |
| 2nd person | vos | vos | vos | vos | voutro |
| 3rd person masculine | ils | los / les | lor | lor | lor |
| 3rd person feminine | els | les | lor / lyés | lor / lyés | | lor |
| 3rd person reflexive | — | sè | sè | sè | | | lor |
| $^1$ Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | $^1$ Disjunctive or object of a preposition. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. | $^2$ Generally preceded by a definite article. |

### References

* tin in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɛ̃/

### Etymology 1

From Middle French tin, tind.

#### Noun

tin m (plural tins)
* a wooden support, often used on watercraft

### Etymology 2
#### Interjection

tin
* (Quebec, colloquial) (surprise, giving someone something) alternative form of tiens

### Further reading

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

## Iban
### Etymology

Borrowed from English tin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tin/

### Noun

tin
* tin
* can (an airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food.)

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰɪːn/
* Rhymes: -ɪːn

### Noun

tin n (genitive singular tins, no plural)
* tin (chemical element)

#### Declension
## Indonesian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɪn]
* Hyphenation: tin

### Etymology 1

From English tin, from Middle English tin, from Old English tin, from Proto-Germanic *tiną.

#### Noun

tin (plural tin-tin)
* tin, an airtight container, made of tin or another metal, used to preserve food
    Synonyms: belek, kaleng

##### Alternative forms

* tim

### Etymology 2

From Arabic تِين (tīn, “fig”).

#### Noun

tin (plural tin-tin)
* fig, a fruit-bearing tree or shrub of the genus Ficus that is native mainly to the tropics

##### Synonyms

* ara (“fig”)

### Further reading

* “tin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latvian
### Verb

tin
* inflection of tīt:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** third-person plural present indicative
** second-person singular imperative
* (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of tīt
* (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of tīt

## Maltese
### Etymology

From Arabic تِين (tīn).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtiːn/

### Noun

tin m (collective, singulative tina, plural tiniet)
* fig, figs: (several fruits; fig as a mass or taste)
* (humorous) buttocks
    Synonyms: natka (natika), tebqa tas-sorm
    Alternative form: tint

## Middle English
### Etymology 1
#### Determiner

tin (subjective pronoun þou)
* (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thy”)

#### Pronoun

tin (subjective þou)
* (chiefly Northern and northern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of þin (“thine”)

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

tin
* Alternative form of tyn

## Navajo
### Etymology

From the root -TIN (“to freeze”), from Proto-Athabaskan *tən (“ice, frost”).
Cognates:
* Apachean: Western Apache tįh, Chiricahua tį’, Lipan kįh
* Others: Hupa -tiŋ, Galice tʰɐn, Chilcotin tə̀n, Slavey tę̀, -téné’, Dogrib tǫ́, Dene Sųłiné tə̀n, Sarcee nistiní, Chipewyan tvn, Beaver istv́ni, Carrier tvn, Sekani tə̀n, Hän tán, Ahtna ten, Dena’ina tən.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [txɪ̀n]

### Noun

tin
* ice, frost

## Noone
### Numeral

tin
* five

### References

* R. Blench, Beboid Comparative

## North Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian tiān. Compare West Frisian tsien, Sylt North Frisian tiin.

### Numeral

tin
* (Föhr-Amrum) ten

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

tìn n (definite singular tìnet)
* (pre-1938) alternative form of tinn

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tin/

### Noun

tin n
* tin

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Derived terms

* tinen

#### Descendants

* Middle English: tyn, tin, tyne, tynne
** English: tin
*** → Atong (India): tin
*** → Iban: tin
*** → Indonesian: tin
*** → Norman: tinne
*** Tok Pisin: tin
** Scots: tin

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tiną.

### Noun

tin n
* tin

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: tin
* Faroese: tin
* Norwegian Nynorsk: tinn
* Norwegian Bokmål: tinn
* Old Swedish: tin, tēn
** Swedish: tenn
* Danish: tin
* Jamtish: tin

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tin”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

## Old Tupi
### Noun

tin
* Lamy spelling of tĩ

## Papiamentu
### Etymology

From Portuguese ter and Spanish tener and Kabuverdianu têm.

### Verb

tin
* to have
* to possess
* there are

## Picard
### Pronoun

tin m
* your

## Rohingya
### Etymology

From Sanskrit त्रि (tri, “three”).

### Numeral

tin (Hanifi spelling 𐴃𐴞𐴕)
* three

## Sranan Tongo
### Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch tien.

### Numeral

tin
* ten

## Sumerian
### Romanization

tin
* Romanization of 𒁷 (tin)

## Swedish
### Etymology

Syncopic form of tiden.

### Noun

tin
* (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of tiden, definite singular of tid
    Han skriker hela tin! ― He's yelling all the time!

#### Usage notes

”Tiden” is only pronounced this way in the expression ”hela tiden”.

### Anagrams

* int, nit

## Tày
### Pronunciation

* (Thạch An – Tràng Định) IPA: [tin˧˥]
* (Trùng Khánh) IPA: [tin˦]

### Etymology 1

From Proto-Tai *tiːnᴬ (“foot”).

#### Noun

tin (𬦿)
* foot

##### Derived terms

* tin fạ
* tin khôn

### Etymology 2

From Vietnamese tin.

#### Noun

tin (信)
* news

## Tok Pisin
### Etymology

From English tin.

### Noun

tin
* tin, can

#### Derived terms

* tinpis

## Turkish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tin/, [t̪ʰin̪]
* Rhymes: -in

### Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Old Turkic 𐱅𐰃𐰤 (tïn, “spirit, breath”).

#### Noun

tin (definite accusative tini, plural tinler)
* (spiritualism) soul, spirit(rare, re-introduced in 1934 during the TDK’s language reform)
    Synonyms: ruh, can
* (philosophy) The essence or entity which some metaphysicists claim that the universe was created by or originated from

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish [Term?], from Arabic تِين (tīn).

#### Noun

tin (definite accusative [please provide], plural [please provide])
* (archaic) fig
    Synonym: incir

##### Declension
### Derived terms

* tinsel
* tinselci
* tinselcilik

### Further reading

* “tin”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 信 (SV: tín).

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [tin˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [tin˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [tɨn˧˧]

### Verb

tin • (信, 𪝮, 𠒷)
* to believe; to trust; to have faith
    niềm tin ― trust
    trị bệnh bằng niềm tin ― faith healing

#### Derived terms

* tin tưởng
* cả tin

### Noun

tin • (信, 𪝮, 𠒷)
* news
    Synonym: tin tức
    tin nóng ― breaking news
    tin buồn ― sad news, especially about someone who's passed away
    tin dữ ― bad news
    tin mừng/vui ― good news
    đạo Tin Lành ― Protestantism (literally, “religion of good news; religion of the gospel; evangelical religion”)

## Welsh
### Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *tuknā, from Proto-Indo-European *tewk-, see also English thigh, Scottish Gaelic tòin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiːn/

### Noun

tin f (plural tinau)
* (vulgar, offensive) arse
    Synonym: pen-ôl

#### Derived terms

* tin dros ben (“arse over tit”)
* tinagored (“open-arsed, open-ended; medlar”)
* tinboeth (“lecherous; arsesmart, water-pepper; redstart”)
* llysiau'r din, gofid tin (“arsesmart, water pepper”)
* tingoch (“redstart”)
* tindroed (“grebe, arsefoot”)

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

### Further reading

* R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “tin”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

## Yoruba
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tĩ̄/

### Verb

tin
* to be thin; to be skinny
    Synonyms: tín-ín-rín, pẹ́lẹ́ńgẹ́, tẹ́ẹ́rẹ́
    Bọ̀bọ́ yẹn tin lẹ́sẹ̀. ― That guy's legs are thin.
    Apá mi tin díẹ̀. ― My arms are a bit skinny.