calin

See also: câlin, călin, and Călin

English

Etymology

From French calin, calain, from Portuguese calaim, from Arabic قَلَعِيّ (qalaʕiyy).

Noun

calin (uncountable)

1. An alloy of lead and tin.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “calin”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• linac

Catalan

Verb

calin

1. inflection of calar:
   1. third-person plural present subjunctive
   2. third-person plural imperative

Mapudungun

Verb

calin (Raguileo spelling)

1. to greet
2. first-person singular realis form of calin

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French câlin.

Adjective

calin m or n (feminine singular calină, masculine plural calini, feminine and neuter plural caline)

1. cuddly

Declension

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	calin		calină		calini	caline
	definite	calinul		calina		calinii	calinele
genitive- dative	indefinite	calin		caline		calini	caline
	definite	calinului		calinei		calinilor	calinelor