jins
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pluralof jin.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Give up the journey to Wāq, it is full of risk, and the jins there will certainly kill you.’
From The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
I del it some ballovas to hatch his bavol and I bikened it for 9 bar, to a rye that you jins kushto.
From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Charles Godfrey Leland
He ran away from his Massa en his Daddy en jins the U.S.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Kentucky Narratives by Work Projects Administration
"When their fire-stick has been extinguished, as is sometimes the case, for their jins or vestal virgins, who have charge of the fire, are not always sufficiently vigilant."
From Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris
Tute jins the chais are only kérri arātti te Kūrrkus.”
From The Gypsies by Charles Godfrey Leland