# pin
## English
### Pronunciation

* enPR: pĭn, IPA: /pɪn/, [pʰɪn]
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn
* Homophone: pen (pin–pen merger)

### Etymology 1

From Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn (“pin, peg, bolt”), from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- (“protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge”). Related to pen (“enclosure”).
Cognate with Dutch pin (“peg, pin”), Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”). More at pintle.
No relation to classical Latin pinna (“fin, flipper, wing-like appendage, wing, feather”), which was extended to mean "ridge, peak, point" (compare pinnacle), and often confused with Latin penna (“wing, feather”). More at feather and pen (Etymology 3).

#### Noun

pin (plural pins)
* A needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening.
** 1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:With pins of adamant / And chains they made all fast.
* A small nail with a head and a sharp point.
* A cylinder often of wood or metal used to fasten or as a bearing between two parts.
    Pull the pin out of the grenade before throwing it at the enemy.
* (wrestling, professional wrestling) The victory condition of holding the opponent's shoulders on the wrestling mat for a prescribed period of time.
* A slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling.
* (informal, in the plural) A leg.
    I'm not so good on my pins these days.
* (electricity) Any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector.
    The UK standard connector for domestic mains electricity has three pins.
* A piece of jewellery that is attached to clothing with a pin.
* (US) A simple accessory that can be attached to clothing with a pin or fastener, often round and bearing a design, logo or message, and used for decoration, identification or to show political affiliation, etc.
    Synonyms: lapel pin, badge
* (chess) Either a scenario in which moving a lesser piece to escape from attack would expose a more valuable piece to being taken instead, or one where moving a piece is impossible as it would place the king in check.
* (golf) The flagstick: the flag-bearing pole which marks the location of a hole
* (curling) The spot at the exact centre of the house (the target area)
    The shot landed right on the pin.
* (archery) The spot at the exact centre of the target, originally a literal pin that fastened the target in place.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act II, scene iv:For kings are clouts that euery man ſhoots at, Our Crowne the pin that thouſands ſeeke to cleaue.
** c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:the very pin of his heart cleft
* (obsolete) A mood, a state of being.
** c. 1631–1633 (first performance), [John Clavell], edited by John Henry Pyle Pafford and W[alter] W[ilson] Greg, The Soddered Citizen (The Malone Society Reprints; 82), London: […] [F]or the Malone Society by John Johnson at the Oxford University Press, published 1936, →OCLC, Act II, scene v, folio 14$^a$, page 45, lines 1030–1032:Hee sett Promethius, on a merrye pynn, / Whoe dranke soe devillishly, that there he gott / A terrible heartburninge, […]
** 1653, Henry More, An Antidote against Atheisme, or An Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Minde of Man, whether There Be Not a God, London: […] Roger Daniel, […], →OCLC:he had made the sign of the Cross on his head; for he was then on a merry pin and full of jearing
* One of a row of pegs in the side of an ancient drinking cup to mark how much each person should drink.
* (medicine, obsolete) Caligo.
** c. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Winters Tale”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:Blind with the pin and web
* A thing of small value; a trifle.
** 1712 February 18 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, February 7, 1711–1712”, in The Spectator, number 295; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume III, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:He […] did not care a pin for her.The spelling has been modernized.
* A peg in musical instruments for increasing or relaxing the tension of the strings.
* (engineering) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal.
* The tenon of a dovetail joint.
* (UK, brewing) A size of brewery cask, equal to half a firkin, or eighth of a barrel.
** 1978, Hugh Verity, chapter 2, in We landed by moonlight, Manchester: Crécy Publishing, →ISBN, page 22=:Our ground crew were lodged in the main station, but they came to the cottage for a party when operations for the night had been cancelled and we had a new ‘gong’ (decoration) to celebrate. On these occasions we always installed a pin of bitter.
* (informal) A pinball machine.
    I spent most of my time in the arcade playing pins.
** 1949, Billboard, volume 61, page 82:Attracted by game operation, many invested heavily in pins and rolldowns prior to last spring.
* (locksmithing) A small cylindrical object which blocks the rotation of a pin-tumbler lock when the incorrect key is inserted.
* (bodybuilding, slang) An injection of PEDs.

##### Synonyms

* (small nail): nail, tack
* (cylinder of wood or metal): peg
* (games): skittle
* (jewellery fastened with a pin): brooch

##### Hyponyms

* (jewellery fastened with a pin): breastpin
* (chess): absolute pin, relative pin, partial pin

##### Derived terms

* angels-dancing-on-the-head-of-a-pin
* angels dancing on the head of a pin
* banking pin
* belaying pin
* bitt-pin
* bobby pin
* breastpin
* breech pin
* bright as a new pin
* clean as a new pin
* clevis pin
* clothespin, clothes pin
* corking pin
* cotter pin
* could hear a pin drop
* crank pin
* crimping pin
* crisping pin
* cute as a pin
* diaper pin
* drawing pin
* escutcheon pin
* Eve's pin
* firing pin
* five-pin
* five-pin bowling
* gudgeon pin
* hair pin
* hook pin
* Jesus pin
* kettle-pin
* kilt pin
* kirby pin
* minuten pin
* nappy pin
* neat as a new pin
* neat as a pin
* on a pin
* one could hear a pin drop
* on pins and needles
* panel pin
* picket pin
* pinafore
* pin and web
* pin bone
* pin-brained
* pin camera
* pin curl
* pincushion
* pin cushion
* pin-cushion
* pin deck
* pin drill
* pin-dropping
* pin-eyed
* pin grass
* pinhead
* pin-head
* pin-headed
* pin header
* pinhole
* pin-hole
* pin lichen
* pin mill
* pin-money
* pin money
* pinner
* pin oak
* pin-pen merger
* pin-point
* pin pool
* pin-prick
* pinprick
* pin-pricked
* pins and needles
* pin seal
* pin setter
* pin-setter
* pin setting
* pin-sharp
* pin squat
* pin-stripe
* pin-striped
* pin-tailed
* pin-tailed sandgrouse
* pin-tailed snipe
* pintle
* pin-up, pinup
* pivot pin
* pole-pin
* pole-pin-strap
* pull the pin
* push-pin
* push pin
* put a pin in
* put in the pin
* rolling pin
* rolling-pin
* row of pins
* safety pin
* schoolgirl pin
* so quiet one can hear a pin drop
* so quiet one could hear a pin drop
* so quiet you can hear a pin drop
* split pin
* spring pin
* taper pin
* ten-pin
* ten-pin bowling
* tie pin
* un-pin-downable
* web and pin
* wrist pin
* yoke-pin

##### Descendants

* → Norwegian Nynorsk: pins
* → Polish: pin
* → Spanish: pin
* → Swahili: pini
* → Swedish: pin, pins

##### 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

* needle

#### Verb

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)
* (often followed by a preposition such as "to" or "on") To fasten or attach (something) with a pin.
* (chess, usually passive voice) To cause (a piece) to be in a pin.
* (wrestling) To pin down (someone).
    He pinned his opponent on the mat.
* To enclose; to confine; to pen; to pound.
* (graphical user interface, transitive) To attach (an icon, application, message etc.) to another item so that it persists.
    Antonym: unpin
    to pin a folder to the taskbar
* (programming, transitive) To fix (an array in memory, a security certificate, etc.) so that it cannot be modified.
    Antonym: unpin
    When marshaling data, the interop marshaler can copy or pin the data being marshaled.
** 2012, Ian Griffiths, Programming C# 5.0, page 244:[…] you can use the GCHandle class mentioned earlier to pin a heap block until you explicitly unpin it.
* (transitive) To cause an analog gauge to reach the stop pin at the high end of the range.
    Synonym: peg
** 1979, Al Greenwood, Lou Gramm, “Rev on the Red Line”, in Head Games:Now I need to pin those needles.
* (bodybuilding, slang, ambitransitive) To inject for performance enhancement.
* (backgammon) To move a piece onto a blot, preventing the piece from further movement.

##### Derived terms

* pin a rose on your nose
* pin back
* pin back one's ears
* pin down
* pin in
* pin on
* pin one's ears back
* pin one's hopes on
* pin the meter
* pin the tail on the donkey
* pin up
* underpin

##### Translations
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

pin (third-person singular simple present pins, present participle pinning, simple past and past participle pinned)
* Alternative form of peen

### Etymology 3
#### Noun

pin (plural pins)
* A cataract of the eye.

##### Related terms

* pannus
* pin and web
* web and pin

### Anagrams

* NIP, NPI, nip, INP, Nip

## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pin.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈpin]

### Noun

pin m (plural pins)
* (electronics) lead
* pin (ornament)

## Chuukese
### Adjective

pin
* holy

#### Synonyms

* fen

## Cimbrian
### Verb

pin
* first-person singular present indicative of zèinan: am

## Cornish
### Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic [Term?], from Latin pīnus. Cognate with Breton and Welsh pin.

### Noun

pin f (singulative pinen)
* pines
    Synonym: sab

#### Derived terms

* know pin (“pine nuts”)
* pinaval (“pineapple”)
* pinbren (“pine”)

### Mutation
## Danish
### Verb

pin
* imperative of pine

## Dutch
### Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch pinne, from Old Dutch *pinna, from Proto-West Germanic *pinnā, of obscure origin. Cognate with English pin, Low German pin, pinne (“pin, point, nail, peg”), German Pinn, Pinne (“pin, tack, peg”), Bavarian Pfonzer, Pfunzer (“sharpened point”), Danish pind (“pin, pointed stick”), Norwegian pinn (“stick”), Swedish pinne (“peg, rod, stick”), Icelandic pinni (“pin”).

#### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪn
* IPA: /pɪn/

#### Noun

pin f (plural pinnen, diminutive pinnetje n)
* peg, pin

##### Descendants

* → Aukan: pina
* ⇒ Dutch: pintje (diminutive form)
** → Munsee: piinch

### Etymology 2

Abbreviation of persoonlijk identificatienummer (“personal identification number”).

#### Noun

pin m or n (plural pins, diminutive pinnetje n)
* PIN (A number used to confirm an individual's identity, e.g. when using an ATM or a mobile phone, or when making payment using a credit card or debit card)

##### Derived terms

* pincode
* pinkassa
* pinnen

### Etymology 3
#### Verb

pin
* inflection of pinnen:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* nip

## French
### Etymology

Inherited from Old French pin, from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɛ̃/
* Audio:(file)
* Homophones: pain, pains, peins, peint, peints, pins

### Noun

pin m (plural pins)
* pine, pine tree (Pinus)
    Hypernym: pinacée

#### Derived terms

* grand pin
* noix de pin
* pin à crochets
* pin à gros fruits
* pin à l’encens
* pin à trochets
* pin blanc
* pin bon
* pin cembre
* pin cembro
* pin créen
* pin cultivé
* pin de Bordeaux
* pin de Briançon
* pin de Calabre
* pin de Corse
* pin de Jérusalem
* pin de montagne
* pin de pierre
* pin des Landes
* pin des Pyrénées
* pin doux
* pin d’Alep
* pin d’Écosse
* pin laricio
* pin maritime
* pin mugho
* pin mugo
* pin nain
* pin nazarou
* pin pignon
* pin pinastre
* pin pinceau
* pin pinier
* pin pleureur
* pin sauvage
* pomme de pin
* torche-pin

### Further reading

* “pin” in the Dictionnaire de l’Académie française, 9th Edition (1992-).
* “pin” in Émile Littré, Dictionnaire de la langue française, 1872–1877.
* “pin”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Friulian
### Etymology

From Latin pīnus.

### Noun

pin m (plural pins)
* pine tree

## Indonesian
### Etymology

From Dutch pin, from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint- (“protruding point, peak, peg, pin, nail”), from Proto-Indo-European *bend- 'protruding object, pointed peg, nail, edge'.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈpɪn]
* Hyphenation: pin

### Noun

pin
* pin
** (colloquial) a needle without an eye (usually) made of drawn-out steel wire with one end sharpened and the other flattened or rounded into a head, used for fastening
    Synonym: peniti
** a slender object specially designed for use in a specific game or sport, such as skittles or bowling
* (colloquial) peg
    Synonym: pasak

### Further reading

* “pin” 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.

## Japanese
### Romanization

pin
* Rōmaji transcription of ピン

## Kapampangan
### Particle

pin
* a particle used to indicate affirmation
    Wapin.I agree.
    Istu yapin.it's indeed correct.
    Ikapin.Yeah, it's you.

## Latvian
### Verb

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

## Mandarin
### Romanization

pin
* Nonstandard spelling of pīn.
* Nonstandard spelling of pín.
* Nonstandard spelling of pǐn.
* Nonstandard spelling of pìn.

#### Usage notes

* Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

## Mapudungun
### Verb

pin (Raguileo spelling)
* To say
* To tell (a story).
* first-person singular realis form of pin

#### Synonyms

* (tell a story): nvxamyen

## Ojibwe
### Noun

pin anim (plural piniig, diminutive piniins, locative piniing, pejorative pinish)
* potato

## Old English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pīnus

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piːn/

### Noun

pin ?
* (appears only in compounds) pine

#### Derived terms

* pīnbēam
* pīntrēow

## Papantla Totonac
### Noun

pin inan
* chili. chili pepper.

### References

* Crescencio García Ramos, Diccionario Básico Totonaco-Español Español-Totonaco (Xalapa, Academia Veracruzana de las Lenguas Indígenas, 2007)

## Piedmontese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piŋ/

### Noun

pin m
* pine

#### Derived terms

* pinera f

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from English pin, from Middle English pinne, from Old English pinn, from Proto-Germanic *pinnaz, *pinnō, *pint-, from Proto-Indo-European *bend-.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpin/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -in
* Syllabification: pin
* Homophone: PIN

### Noun

pin m inan
* (electricity) lead, pin (any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector)

#### Declension
### Further reading

* pin in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Rawang
### Etymology

Compare Chinese 兵 (bīng).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pʰin˧/

### Noun

pin
* army.
* soldier.

#### Synonyms

* (army): dap, pindap, sìl
* (soldier): pinla, sìlsè

## Romanian
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin pīnus, ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *poi- (“sap, juice”).

### Noun

pin m (plural pini)
* pine

#### See also

* brad

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* pign (Rumantsch Grischun)
* pégn (Sursilvan)
* pegn (Sutsilvan, Surmiran)

### Etymology

From Latin pīnus.

### Noun

pin m
* (Puter, Vallader) spruce, fir

#### Synonyms

* (spruce): (Vallader) petsch

## Seta
### Noun

pin
* woman

### References

* transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpin/ [ˈpĩn]
* Rhymes: -in
* Syllabification: pin

### Etymology 1

Borrowed from English pin.

#### Noun

pin m (plural pines)
* pin, lapel pin, badge
    Synonym: insignia
* (electricity) pin (any of the individual connecting elements of a multipole electrical connector)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from English PIN, acronym of personal identification number.

#### Alternative forms

* PIN

#### Noun

pin m (plural pines)
* PIN, PIN number
    Synonym: número pin

### Further reading

* “pin”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Swedish
### Etymology 1

Clipping of pinsam, with the same meaning.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiːn/

#### Adjective

pin (comparative mer pin, superlative mest pin)
* (colloquial) embarrassing
    Så jäkla pin asså!So f--ing embarrassing!

##### Declension

Invariable, not used in the definite form.

### Etymology 2

From pina.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpiːn/

#### Noun

pin
* (mostly in (reference to) the phrase below) pain, torment

##### Derived terms

* vill man vara fin får man lida pin

#### Adverb

pin (not comparable)
* (colloquial) very, really, super-
    Synonyms: jätte-, väldigt

##### Derived terms

* på pin kiv
* pinfull
* pinfärsk
* pinkär

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from English pin.

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpɪn/

#### Noun

pin n
* Alternative form of pins

##### Usage notes

The form with -s is recommended since it's easier to decline in Swedish.

### References

* pin in Nationalencyklopedin (needs an authorization fee).

## Turkish
### Alternative forms

* pim (Van)
* pindik (Çorum)
* pine (Kahramanmaraş, Sivas, Yozgat, Nevşehir, Adana)
* pinelik (Ankara, Gümüşhane, Kayseri)
* pines (Trabzon, Rize, Tekirdağ, Ankara, Adana)
* pineslik (Ankara)
* pinez (Trabzon)
* pinezlik (Giresun)
* pinik (Sinop, Ordu, Gümüşhane, Sivas, Yozgat)
* pinlik (Kastamonu, Çorum, Sinop, Samsun, Tokat, Kırşehir, Kayserii)
* pinnek (Tunceli, Gaziantep, Sivas)
* pon (Gümüşhane)
* pun (Artvin, Bitlis)
* pündük (Ordu)
* püne (Adana)
* pünes (Antalya)
* pünlük (Ordu)
* pünnük (Ordu)

### Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish پین (pin), borrowed from a dialectal form of Armenian բույն (buyn, “nest”).

### Noun

pin (definite accusative pini, plural pinler)
* (dialectal) coop for poultry

#### Declension

singular
plural
nominative
pin
pinler
definite accusative
pini
pinleri
dative
pine
pinlere
locative
pinde
pinlerde
ablative
pinden
pinlerden
genitive
pinin
pinlerin
Possessive forms
nominative
singular
plural
1st singular
pinim
pinlerim
2nd singular
pinin
pinlerin
3rd singular
pini
pinleri
1st plural
pinimiz
pinlerimiz
2nd plural
pininiz
pinleriniz
3rd plural
pinleri
pinleri
definite accusative
singular
plural
1st singular
pinimi
pinlerimi
2nd singular
pinini
pinlerini
3rd singular
pinini
pinlerini
1st plural
pinimizi
pinlerimizi
2nd plural
pininizi
pinlerinizi
3rd plural
pinlerini
pinlerini
dative
singular
plural
1st singular
pinime
pinlerime
2nd singular
pinine
pinlerine
3rd singular
pinine
pinlerine
1st plural
pinimize
pinlerimize
2nd plural
pininize
pinlerinize
3rd plural
pinlerine
pinlerine
locative
singular
plural
1st singular
pinimde
pinlerimde
2nd singular
pininde
pinlerinde
3rd singular
pininde
pinlerinde
1st plural
pinimizde
pinlerimizde
2nd plural
pininizde
pinlerinizde
3rd plural
pinlerinde
pinlerinde
ablative
singular
plural
1st singular
pinimden
pinlerimden
2nd singular
pininden
pinlerinden
3rd singular
pininden
pinlerinden
1st plural
pinimizden
pinlerimizden
2nd plural
pininizden
pinlerinizden
3rd plural
pinlerinden
pinlerinden
genitive
singular
plural
1st singular
pinimin
pinlerimin
2nd singular
pininin
pinlerinin
3rd singular
pininin
pinlerinin
1st plural
pinimizin
pinlerimizin
2nd plural
pininizin
pinlerinizin
3rd plural
pinlerinin
pinlerinin
Predicative forms
singular
plural
1st singular
pinim
pinlerim
2nd singular
pinsin
pinlersin
3rd singular
pin pindir
pinler pinlerdir
1st plural
piniz
pinleriz
2nd plural
pinsiniz
pinlersiniz
3rd plural
pinler
pinlerdir :

#### Synonyms

* kümes

#### References

* Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “բոյն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
* “pin”, in Türkiye'de halk ağzından derleme sözlüğü [Compilation Dictionary of Popular Speech in Turkey] (in Turkish), Ankara: Türk Dil Kurumu, 1963–1982

## Vietnamese
### Etymology

Borrowed from French pile.

### Pronunciation

* (Hà Nội) IPA: [pin˧˧], [ʔɓin˧˧]
* (Huế) IPA: [pin˧˧], [ʔɓin˧˧]
* (Saigon) IPA: [pɨn˧˧], [ʔɓɨn˧˧]
* Phonetic spelling: pin, bin

### Noun

(classifier cục) pin
* a battery
* the amount of electricity that a battery holds
    Điện thoại tao hết pin rồi.My phone is dead.(literally, “My phone has run out of "battery".”)

#### Derived terms

* đèn pin (“torch, flashlight”)

## Welsh
### Etymology 1

From Latin pīnus (compare Middle Irish pín).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /piːn/
* Rhymes: -iːn
* Homophone: p'un (“which one?”) (South Wales)

#### Noun

pin m or m pl (uncountable)
* pine (tree)
* pine (wood)

##### Usage notes

Modern Welsh orthography prefers the form pin to the superseded form pîn.

##### Synonyms

* pinwydd f pl

##### Derived terms

* pinafal, afal pin (“pineapple”)

### Etymology 2
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪn/

#### Noun

pin m (plural pinnau)
* Dated spelling of pìn.

### Mutation

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

### References

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

## West Makian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pin̪/

### Noun

pin
* bee

### References

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

## Yapese
### Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *papine, from Proto-Austronesian *bahi (“woman”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pɪn/

### Noun

pin
* woman

## Yoruba
### Etymology 1
#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /k͡pĩ̄/

#### Verb

pin
* to terminate; to come to an end
    Ọ̀nà ti pin ― The road has ended

##### Derived terms

* òpin (“end”)

### Etymology 2

Cognate with Igala kpẹ́

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /k͡pĩ́/

#### Verb

pín
* to divide
    O fẹ́ tọ́ ọ wò àbí? Màá pín in sí méjì. ― Do you want to taste it? I'll divide it in two.
* to share out; to distribute
    Àwọn apẹja pín èyí tí wọ́n pa fún gbogbo abúlé ― The fishermen shared their catch with the village

##### Derived terms

* ìpínkiri (“distribution”)
* ìpín (“portion; share”)