miskin
See also: Miskin
English
Noun
miskin (plural miskins)
- (obsolete, music) A little bagpipe.
- 1593, Michael Drayton, Pastorals II: The Second Eclogue, published 1619:
- Now would I tune my Miskins on this Greene,
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “miskin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Azerbaijani
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Adjective
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Indonesian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɪs.kɪn/
- Rhymes: -kɪn, -ɪn, -n
- Hyphenation: mis‧kin
Alternative forms
- kismin (slang)
Further reading
- “miskin” 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.
Malay
Descendants
- Indonesian: miskin
Further reading
- “miskin” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish مسكین (“poor; pitiful; leprous”), from Arabic مِسْكِين (miskīn).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [miscin]
- Hyphenation: mis‧kin
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “مسكین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 1167
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “miskin”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
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