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Hausa

Etymology

From Arabic ????? (j?m).

Noun

jim f

1. jeem (letter of the Arabic alphabet)

Lower Sorbian

Alternative forms

• nim (after a preposition)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [jim]

Pronoun

jim

1. dative of wóni

Mefele

Noun

jim

1. water

Further reading

• Karyn Crawford, Lexicostatistics and intelligibility testing survey with simplified SLOPE of the Mefele language (2005), SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2005-021: 21, page 18

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /j?m/

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian j?, from Proto-Germanic *j?z, from Proto-Indo-European *y??, plural of *túh?..

Pronoun

jim

1. you (second-person plural pronoun)

Inflection

Alternative forms

• jimme

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Determiner

jim

1. your (second-person plural possessive determiner)

Alternative forms

• jimme

English

Etymology

From the Middle English Gene (“Genoa”), from the Old French Jannes. Bleu de Gênes (“Genovese blue”) was a blue dye made in Genoa used to tint the denim cloth produced in Nîmes (de Nîmes). Doublet of Genoa and Geneva.

Pronunciation

• enPR: j?n, IPA^(key): /d?i?n/
• Rhymes: -i?n
• Homophones: gene, Gene

Noun

jean (countable and uncountable, plural jeans)

1. (chiefly attributive) Denim.

   She wore a tattered jean jacket.

Derived terms

• jeans
• satin jean

Anagrams

• Jaen, Jane, Jaén, Jena, jane

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English jean.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?in/
• Homophones: djinn, gin

Noun

jean m (plural jeans)

1. a pair of jeans

Further reading

• “jean” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Manx

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???n/, /d??en/

Etymology

From Old Irish ·dénai, prototonic form of do·gní.

The past form ren is from Old Irish do·rigni, deuterotonic form of the perfect tense of do·gní.

Verb

jean (past ren, future independent nee, verbal noun jannoo, past participle jeant)

1. (auxiliary) A syntactic marker that carries the tense of the verb, replacing its synthetic form; the true verb follows as a verbal noun.

2. do, make

Conjugation

Spanish

Noun

jean m (plural jeans)

1. jeans