different between qilin vs kirin

English

Etymology

From Mandarin ?? (qílín). Doublet of kirin.

Noun

qilin (plural qilins)

1. A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.
   • 1989, Ernst J. Grube, Eleanor G. Sims, Islamic Art: Volume 3

     ...a red and gold textile with phoenixes in one row swooping towards qilins in the next amidst a densely foliated ground...

   • 2001, David J. Roxburgh, Prefacing the image: the writing of art history in sixteenth-century Iran

     Roundel depicting dragon attacked by qilins; mounted on an album page.

   • 2010, Molly Blaisdell, Necdet Yilmaz, Truth about Unicorns

     When the qilin leaves, the emperor traces the shapes he saw into the dirt.

Synonyms

• kirin

Translations

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese ?(?)?(??) (kirin), from Middle Chinese. Doublet of qilin.

Noun

kirin (plural kirins)

1. A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.

Synonyms

• qilin

Translations

Finnish

Etymology 1

Noun

kirin

1. Genitive singular form of kiri.

Etymology 2

Verb

kirin

1. First-person singular indicative present form of kiriä.
2. First-person singular indicative past form of kiriä.

Etymology 3

Noun

kirin

1. Genitive singular form of kir.

Anagrams

• rikin, rinki

Japanese

Romanization

kirin

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Mursi

Noun

kirin

1. giraffe

References

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *kar-, from Proto-Indo-European *k?er-. Cognates include Bactrian ???- (kir-), Persian ???? (-gar).

Alternative forms

• ???? – Arabic spelling

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [k?r?n]
• Hyphenation: ki?rin
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

kirin (third-person singular simple present dike, past tense kir)

1. (transitive) to do, to make (to perform an action)
2. (transitive) to take for husband or wife, to marry (someone)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (to do): bi cih anîn
• (to marry): zewicîn

Derived terms

See also

• kirîn

References

• Ferhenga destî (Kurdish monolingual dictionary)
• Ferheng.org