kinin

See also: kínín

English

Etymology

Derived from Ancient Greek κῑνέω (kīnéō) meaning "to move or stimulate" + -in.

Noun

kinin (plural kinins)

1. (biochemistry) Any of various structurally related polypeptides of the autacoid family, such as bradykinin and kallikrein, that act locally to induce vasodilation and contraction of smooth muscle.
   • 1987 October 6, Gina Kolata, “Clever Strategy Shows Promise Against Colds”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The kinin work comes at a time when "there has not been a whole lot of interest in the common cold," Dr. Couch said, adding that he believed scientists had begun to view cold research as "a hopeless area."

   • 2010 October 4, Jennifer Ackerman, “How Not to Fight Colds”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     Indeed, it’s possible to create the full storm of cold symptoms with no cold virus at all, but only a potent cocktail of the so-called inflammatory mediators that the body makes itself[,] among them, cytokines, kinins, prostaglandins and interleukins, powerful little chemical messengers that cause the blood vessels in the nose to dilate and leak, stimulate the secretion of mucus, activate sneeze and cough reflexes and set off pain in our nerve fibers.

Translations

any of a group of related autacoids

• Icelandic: kínín (is) n
• Serbo-Croatian: please add this translation if you can

Anagrams

• ink in

Faroese

Etymology

Borrowed from French quinine, from Spanish quina (“cinchona bark”), from Quechua kina.

Noun

kinin n (genitive singular kinins, uncountable)

1. quinine

Declension

n3s	singular
	indefinite	definite
nominative	kinin	kininið
accusative	kinin	kininið
dative	kinini	kinininum
genitive	kinins	kininsins

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Quechua kina +‎ -in.

Noun

kinin m or n (definite singular kininen or kininet, uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) quinine

References

• “kinin” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “kinin” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Quechua kina +‎ -in.

Noun

kinin m or n (definite singular kininen or kininet, uncountable)

1. (pharmacology) quinine

References

• “kinin” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English quinine, ultimately from Quechua kina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kǐniːn/

Noun

kìnīn m (Cyrillic spelling кѝнӣн)

1. quinine

Declension

Declension of kinin

	singular
nominative	kìnīn
genitive	kinína
dative	kininu
accusative	kinin
vocative	kinine
locative	kininu
instrumental	kininom

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kiníːn/

Noun

kinȋn m inan

1. quinine

Inflection

The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.

Masculine inan., hard o-stem
nominative	kinín
genitive	kinína
	singular
nominative (imenovȃlnik)	kinín
genitive (rodȋlnik)	kinína
dative (dajȃlnik)	kinínu
accusative (tožȋlnik)	kinín
locative (mẹ̑stnik)	kinínu
instrumental (orọ̑dnik)	kinínom

Swedish

Noun

kinin n

1. (pharmacology) quinine

Declension

Declension of kinin

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	kinin	kinins
	definite	kininet	kininets
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

See also

• gin och tonic
• malaria

References

• kinin in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• kinin in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• kinin in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)