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English

Etymology
Prefix a- (for of) + kin.

Pronunciation
WEAE IPA|/��kɪn/

Adjective
en-adj

1. context|of persons Of the same kin; related by blood.

#*1722, w:Daniel Defoe|Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders, ch. 23,
#*:We are too near akin to lie together, though we may lodge near one another.
#*1897, w:Joseph Conrad|Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the �Narcissus�, ch. 2,
#*:The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all akin with the brotherhood of the sea.

1. Allied by nature; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.

#*1677, w:Theophilus Gale|Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27,
#*:Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?
#*1710, anon., "To the Spectator, &c.," The Spectator, vol. 1, no. 8 (March 9), p. 39,
#*:She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.
#*1814, w:Jane Austen|Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, ch. 44,
#*:Such sensations, however, were too near akin to resentment to be long guiding Fanny's soliloquies.
#*1837, w:Charles Dickens|Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers, ch. 39,
#*:Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.
#*1910, w:Zane Grey|Zane Grey, "Old Well-Well," Success (July),
#*:Something akin to a smile shone on his face.

Usage notes
This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.

Translations
trans-top|of the same kin; related by blood
Czech: p�íbuzný m
trans-mid
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trans-top|of the same kind
Czech: p�íbuzný m
trans-mid
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ttbc|Hebrew: קר�ת ��
����, קש�ר
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Tagalog

Adjective
akin

1. possessive My.

Pronoun
akin

1. possessive Mine.

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