sinh

Translingual

Pronunciation

• English:
  • IPA^(key): /sɪnt͡ʃ/, /saɪnˈeɪt͡ʃ/, /ʃaɪn/, /ˈsɪŋ/
  • Homophones: cinch, shine, sing

Symbol

sinh

1. (trigonometry) The hyperbolic function hyperbolic sine.

Usage notes

The symbol sinh is prescribed by the ISO 80000-2:2019 standard. The symbol sh is also in use, and is especially favoured in French- and Russian-language texts.

See also

• cosh
• sin
• tanh

English

Laotian women wearing sinhs

Alternative forms

• sin, pha sin, phaa sin

Etymology

Borrowed from Lao ສິ້ນ (sin) or Thai ซิ่น (sîn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sin/

Noun

sinh (plural sinhs)

1. A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
   • 1992, Lucretia Stewart, Tiger balm: travels in Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia, page 25:

     These dancers with their graceful upright carriage, their dreamy distant expressions and their party sins (the women were wearing sins made of brightly-coloured silk woven in squares and broad stripes and usually worn by men) were infinitely more appealing than the younger dancers and the electronic band but, as Darachit was fond of saying and without apparent regret, 'Les traditions ne sont plus respectees."

   • 1998, Grant Evans, The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975, →ISBN, page 86:

     The only enforced dress codes now [in Laos] are for female public servants who continue to wear the sinh, though outside of work they can wear what they like.

   • 2008, Robert Cooper, CultureShock! Laos: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette, →ISBN:

     After the change in regime of 1975, every woman seen in public was wearing a sin, as this was part of a dresscode favoured by the new socialist government.

   • 2009, Arne Kislenko, Culture and Customs of Laos, →ISBN, page 128:

     Communism made things even worse by eliminating the export market for locally made textiles and, in some cases, prohibiting the production of silk and the manufacture of clothes. Although traditional sins were allowed, colorful ones were considered bourgeois and banned.

Further reading

• Sinh (clothing) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Hins, Nish, Shin, hins, his'n, hisn, nish, shin

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• si, sii, siin, ŝchi

Etymology

From Old High German sīn (“to be”) (with some inflections from Proto-Germanic *wesaną (“to be”) and *beuną (“to be, exist, become”)), from Proto-Indo-European *es-, *h₁es- (“to be, exist”). Cognate with German sein.

Verb

sinh

1. (Issime) to be

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Vietnamese

Alternative forms

• (Southern Vietnam) sanh

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese word from 生 (“birth”).

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [sïŋ˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [ʂɨn˧˧] ~ [sɨn˧˧]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [ʂɨn˧˧] ~ [sɨn˧˧]

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Verb

sinh

1. (intransitive) to produce; to yield
2. (transitive) to give birth (to)

Noun

sinh

1. Short for sinh học (“biology”).
2. (obsolete) Short for học sinh (“student”).
3. (only in compounds) life

Derived terms

• an sinh (安生, “welfare”)
• bẩm sinh (稟生, “innate”)
• cải tử hoàn sinh (改死還生, “resurrection”)
• chiêu sinh (招生, “to recruit students”)
• chúng sinh (眾生, “living beings”)
• cổ sinh vật học (古生物學, “paleontology”)
• công nghệ sinh học (工藝生學, “biotechnology”)
• cộng sinh (共生, “symbiosis”)
• du học sinh (遊學生, “international student”)
• động vật nguyên sinh (動物原生, “protozoan”)
• giáng sinh (降生, “to be born”)
• giấy vệ sinh (紙衛生, “toilet paper”)
• hậu sinh khả uý (後生可畏, “youth are formidable”)
• hi sinh, hy sinh (犧牲, “to sacrifice”)
• hoá sinh học, hóa sinh học (化生學, “biochemistry”)
• hoá sinh, hóa sinh (化生, “biochemical”)
• học sinh (學生, “student”)
• hổ phụ sinh hổ tử (虎父生虎子, “like father, like son”)
• hộ sinh (護生, “to assist birth”)
• hồi sinh (回生, “to resurrect”)
• hướng đạo sinh (嚮導生, “scout”)
• khai sinh (開生, “to register a birth”)
• kí sinh trùng, ký sinh trùng (寄生蟲, “parasite”)
• kí sinh, ký sinh (寄生, “to be parasitic”)
• lò sát sinh (壚殺生, “slaughterhouse”)
• môi sinh (媒生, “environment”)
• nam sinh (男生, “schoolboy”)
• nảy sinh (𬝡生, “to develop”)
• ngày sinh (𣈜生, “birthdate”)
• nghiên cứu sinh (研究生, “doctorate student”)
• nhà vệ sinh (家衛生, “outhouse”)
• nữ sinh (女生, “schoolgirl”)
• phái sinh (派生, “to derive”)
• phát sinh (發生, “to arise”)
• phóng sinh (放生, “to release animals”)
• sản sinh (產生, “to produce”)
• sát sinh (殺生, “to kill a being”)
• sinh bệnh (生病, “to fall ill”)
• sinh dục (生育, “reproductive”)
• sinh đẻ (生𤯰, “to give birth”)
• sinh động (生動, “vivid”)
• sinh hoá học (生化學, “biochemistry”)
• sinh hoá, sinh hóa (生化, “biochemistry”)
• sinh hoạt (生活, “casual activities”)
• sinh học (生學, “biology”)
• sinh kế (生計, “livelihood”)
• sinh lí học, sinh lý học (生理學, “physiology”)
• sinh lí, sinh lý (生理, “physiology”)
• sinh linh (生靈, “mortal soul”)
• sinh mạng (生命, “life”)
• sinh mệnh (生命, “life”)
• sinh nhật (生日, “birthday”)
• sinh quán (生貫, “birthplace”)
• sinh sản (生產, “to reproduce”)
• sinh sôi (生𤉚, “to proliferate”)
• sinh sống (生𤯨, “to live”)
• sinh thái (生態, “ecology”)
• sinh thái học (生態學, “ecology”)
• sinh thiết (生切, “to biopsy”)
• sinh thực khí (生殖器, “genitals”)
• sinh tố (生素, “smoothie”)
• sinh tồn (生存, “to survive”)
• sinh trưởng (生長, “to grow”)
• sinh vật (生物, “organism”)
• sinh vật học (生物學, “biology”)
• sinh viên (生員, “postsecondary student”)
• song sinh (雙生, “being twins”)
• sơ sinh (初生, “newborn”)
• súc sinh (畜生, “scumbag”)
• thập tử nhất sinh (十死一生, “highly fatal”)
• thí sinh (試生, “contestant”)
• tiên sinh (先生, “senior”)
• vào sinh ra tử (𠓨生𫥨死, “to be willing to risk one's life”)
• vệ sinh (衛生, “hygiene”)
• vi sinh vật (微生物, “microorganism”)
• vi sinh vật học (微生物學, “microbiology”)
• vô sinh (無生, “infertile”)