kain

From Irish cáin.

• IPA^(key): /keɪn/
• Rhymes: -eɪn
• Homophones: Cain, cane, Kaine, Kane

kain (countable and uncountable, plural kains)

1. (Scots law) poultry, etc., required by the lease to be paid in kind by a tenant to the landlord.
   • 1798, Robert Douglas, General View of the Agriculture in the Counties of Roxburgh and Selkirk:

     hens […] in most leases make a part of the rent, under the name of kain, and are generally kept for conveniency or profit.

• “kain”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Akin, Inka, Kian, Naik, akin, kina, naik

From Javanese ꦏꦲꦶꦤ꧀ (kain, “cloth”), from Old Javanese kain (“cloth, garment”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːiːn/
• Hyphenation: ka‧in

kain

1. cloth
2. woven goods (usually for clothes and others)

Borrowed from Tagalog kain, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

• Hyphenation: ka‧in
• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔin/, [ˈka.ʔin̪]

kain

1. (Daet) to eat; to dine
2. (Daet) to feed; to give (someone or something) food to eat
3. (Daet) to eat tape (of a cassette player, etc.)

• kakan
• kaon

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

IPA^(key): /kain/

kain

1. cloth
2. textile

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔin/

káin

1. long skirt

   Synonym: pandiling

From Malay kain, from Classical Malay کاءين, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈka.ɪn]
• Hyphenation: kain

kain (first-person possessive kainku, second-person possessive kainmu, third-person possessive kainnya)

1. cloth
2. textile

• “kain” 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.

kain

1. Rōmaji transcription of かいん

From Old Javanese kain (“cloth, garment”), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈkaːiːn/
• Hyphenation: ka‧in

kain

1. cloth
2. woven goods (usually for clothes and others)

• The Linguistic Center of Yogyakarta (2015) “kain”, in Kamus Basa Jawa (Bausastra Jawa) [Javanese Language Dictionary (Javanese Dictionary)] (in Javanese), Yogyakarta: Kanisius, →ISBN

• “kain” in Javanese Cultural Dictionary [Kamus Budaya Jawa], Central Java: The Linguistic Center of Central Java [Balai Bahasa Provinsi Jawa Tengah], 2021.

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

kain

1. skirt

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kain (“woman's skirt”).

• Rhymes: -in

kain (Jawi spelling کاءين, plural kain-kain, informal 1st possessive kainku, 2nd possessive kainmu, 3rd possessive kainnya)

1. cloth
2. textile

• Indonesian: kain

• “kain” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

From English kind.

kain

1. kind (of)
   • 2023, “'Nigerians prefer to welcome criminals into society dan transgender pipo' - Jay Boogie”, in BBC News Pidgin‎:

     From dinner gowns to see-through dresses, den crop tops, jumpsuits, bum shots and short dresses na di kain clothes wey Jay Boogie dey wear.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kaən, from Proto-Austronesian *kaən.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈkaʔin/ [ˈka.ʔɪn]
• Rhymes: -aʔin
• Syllabification: ka‧in

kain (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜁᜈ᜔)

1. act or manner of eating or consuming
2. mealtime
3. amount of food eaten at a time
4. action of a machine (such as a saw, plow, or knife) on a surface

   Synonyms: kagat, talab

5. taking in something fed to be processed (of a machine)
6. (figurative, colloquial) expiration of unused prepaid phone credits

• lamon

From English kind.

kain

1. kind; type

• kain kain
• narakain
• olkain