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English

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?g; IPA^(key): /d????/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

An assimilated form of earlier gig, from Middle English gigge, from Old French gige, gigue (“a fiddle, kind of dance”), from Frankish *g?ge (“dance, fiddle”), from Proto-Germanic *g?gan? (“to move, wish, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?ey??-, *g?eyg?- (“to yawn, gape, long for, desire”).

Cognate with Middle Dutch ghighe (“fiddle”), German Geige (“fiddle, violin”), Danish gige (“fiddle”), Icelandic gígja (“fiddle”). More at gig, geg.

Noun

jig (plural jigs)

1. (music) A light, brisk musical movement; a gigue.
2. (traditional Irish music and dance) A lively dance in 6/8 (double jig), 9/8 (slip jig) or 12/8 (single jig) time; a tune suitable for such a dance. By extension, a lively traditional tune in any of these time signatures. Unqualified, the term is usually taken to refer to a double (6/8) jig.
3. (traditional English Morris dancing) A dance performed by one or sometimes two individual dancers, as opposed to a dance performed by a set or team.
4. (fishing) A type of lure consisting of a hook molded into a weight, usually with a bright or colorful body.
5. A device in manufacturing, woodworking, or other creative endeavors for controlling the location, path of movement, or both of either a workpiece or the tool that is operating upon it. Subsets of this general class include machining jigs, woodworking jigs, welders' jigs, jewelers' jigs, and many others.

6. (mining) An apparatus or machine for jigging ore.
7. (obsolete) A light, humorous piece of writing, especially in rhyme; a farce in verse; a ballad.
8. (obsolete) A trick; a prank.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

jig (third-person singular simple present jigs, present participle jigging, simple past and past participle jigged)

1. To move briskly, especially as a dance.

2. To move with a skip or rhythm; to move with vibrations or jerks.
3. (fishing) To fish with a jig.
4. To sing to the tune of a jig.
5. To trick or cheat; to cajole; to delude.

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6. (mining) To sort or separate, as ore in a jigger or sieve.
7. To cut or form, as a piece of metal, in a jigging machine.

Translations

Etymology 2

Clipping of jigaboo, of uncertain origin, perhaps an African/Bantu word. Alternatively, jigaboo is derived from jig (“dance”).

Noun

jig (plural jigs)

1. (US, offensive, slang, dated, ethnic slur) A black person.

References

English

Noun

jin (plural jins)

1. Alternative spelling of jinn

Anagrams

• IJN, JNI

Abenaki

Etymology

From English gin.

Noun

jin

1. gin

References

• Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues

Indonesian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d???n]
• Hyphenation: jin

Etymology 1

From Arabic ????? (jinn, “genie”).

Noun

jin (first-person possessive jinku, second-person possessive jinmu, third-person possessive jinnya)

1. genie: a jinn, a being descended from the jann, normally invisible to the human eye, but who may also appear in animal or human form.

Etymology 2

From Dutch gin, geneva, alteration of Dutch genever (“juniper”), from Old French genevre (French genièvre), from Latin i?niperus (“juniper”).

Noun

jin (first-person possessive jinku, second-person possessive jinmu, third-person possessive jinnya)

1. gin: a colourless non-aged alcoholic liquor made by distilling fermented grains such as barley, corn, oats or rye with juniper berries; the base for many cocktails.
2. jenever

   Synonym: jenewer

Derived terms

Etymology 3

From Persian ???? (zin, “saddle”), from Middle Persian [script needed] (zyn' /z?n/, “saddle”).

Noun

jin (first-person possessive jinku, second-person possessive jinmu, third-person possessive jinnya)

1. saddle: a seat (tack) for a rider placed on the back of a horse or other animal.

Etymology 4

From Dutch jeans, from English jeans, a shortened form of jean fustian (from Middle English Gene (“Genoa; Genovese”) + fustian (“strong cotton fabric”).

Noun

jin (first-person possessive jinku, second-person possessive jinmu, third-person possessive jinnya)

1. jeans: a pair of trousers made from denim cotton.

Further reading

• “jin” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Irish

Etymology

From English gin.

Noun

jin m (genitive singular jin)

1. gin (alcoholic beverage)

Declension

Japanese

Romanization

jin

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Mandarin

Romanization

jin

1. Nonstandard spelling of j?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of j?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of jìn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *?ánHh, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *?ánHs, from Proto-Indo-European *g??n.

Noun

jin f

1. woman (adult female human being)
2. wife

Rohingya

Alternative forms

• ????????????? (jin) – Hanifi Rohingya script

Noun

jin (Hanifi spelling ????????????)

1. jinn