Shin

//ʃɪn//

Synonyms for "shin" (66 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (14)

clamber ankle ascend bayonet legs bowlegs calf clamber up climb climb over climb up cnemis

Verb(2 words)

shinny clamber

Noun(1 words)

tibia

Strong matches (19)

dash drumstick escalade foreleg gam gamb gambrel gigot ham hind leg hock jamb knee leg limb mount pin podite popliteal space

Related words (33)

ramp run scale scale the heights scamper scissor-legs scoot scrabble up scramble up scurry shank shin up shinny sprint stem stems struggle up stumps surmount tarsus

Show 6 more words

thigh tibia trotter trotters underpinnings upclimb

Verb(5 words)

scramble shimmy skin sputter struggle

Noun(2 words)

shin bone shinbone

Related word relations

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8 relation types

More general

8 entries

alphabetic character body part climb cut cut of meat leg bone letter letter of the alphabet

Synonyms

2 entries

clamber tibia

Related terms

2 entries

shin hanga shinbone

derived

16 entries

Invershin saber shin shin leaf shin out shin pad shin screw shin splint shin splints shin-kicking shinbone shinguard shinless shinny shinplaster shinplate yellowshins

has context

5 entries

as british shin up slang us

is a

5 entries

body part cut external anatomical part letter solid object

part of

2 entries

hebrew alphabet leg

related to

14 entries

arabic aramaic borrow fishplate hebrew highlands money payment phoenician railway scotland shinbone strike syriac

Translations

119 translations across 70 languages.

Afrikaans

2 entries

maermerrie noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
skeen noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Ancient Greek

1 entries

κνήμη noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Arabic

3 entries

شِين noun (Semitic letter)
قصبة الرجل noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
قَصَبَة noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Armenian

1 entries

սրունք noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Belarusian

2 entries

галёнка noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
го́лень noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Bulgarian

2 entries

пищя́л noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
изкатервам се verb ((UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope)

Catalan

4 entries

camalló noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
canella noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
canyella noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
espinella noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Cherokee

1 entries

ᎠᏍᎬᏓᎨᏂ noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Chinese Mandarin

2 entries

小腿 noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
脛 /胫 noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Coptic

1 entries

ⲕⲁϣ ⲛⲣⲁⲧ noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Czech

1 entries

holeň noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Danish

1 entries

skinneben noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Darkinjung

1 entries

jarra noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Dutch

1 entries

scheen noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Esperanto

1 entries

kruro noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Finnish

4 entries

sääri noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
šin noun (Semitic letter)
kavuta verb ((UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope)
kiivetä verb ((UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope)

French

4 entries

chine noun (Semitic letter)
os long noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
shin noun (Semitic letter)
tibia noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Galician

1 entries

canela noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Georgian

2 entries

კანჭი noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
წვივი noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

German

3 entries

Schienbein noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
Schin noun (Semitic letter)
Tibia noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Greek

1 entries

κνήμη noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Greenlandic

1 entries

kanaaq noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Hebrew

2 entries

שִׁין noun (Semitic letter)
שוק noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Hungarian

2 entries

lábszár noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
sípcsont noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Icelandic

1 entries

sköflungur noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Indonesian

2 entries

betis depan noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
tulang kering noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Irish

1 entries

lorga noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Italian

2 entries

stinco noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
tibia noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Japanese

2 entries

脛 noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
臑 noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Kabuverdianu

1 entries

kanela noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Khmer

1 entries

ស្មង noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Korean

1 entries

정강이 noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Lithuanian

1 entries

blauzda noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Maasai

1 entries

l-aɨlɛ́lɛɛ̂ noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Macedonian

1 entries

пи́ска noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Malay

1 entries

tulang kering noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Middle English

1 entries

schyne noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Moksha

1 entries

катля noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Mpade

1 entries

salio noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Māori

3 entries

kauangāwai noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
tāhau noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
tātāhau noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Navajo

1 entries

adzástis noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Norwegian Bokmål

3 entries

skinnebein noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
skinneben noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
tibia noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Norwegian Nynorsk

2 entries

skinnebein noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
tibia noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Old English

1 entries

sċinu noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Ottoman Turkish

2 entries

اینجك noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
باجاق noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Polish

1 entries

goleń noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Portuguese

1 entries

canela noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Romanian

1 entries

fluierul piciorului noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Russian

4 entries

го́лень noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
шин noun (Semitic letter)
кара́бкаться verb ((UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope)
лазать verb ((UK) to climb a mast, tree, rope)

Sanskrit

1 entries

अष्ठीवत् noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

lurgann noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries

gnjȃt noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
golen noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
golènjača noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
голен noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Slovak

1 entries

holeň noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Slovene

2 entries

golen noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
piščal noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Somali

1 entries

xoog noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Spanish

3 entries

canilla noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
espinilla noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
tibia noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Swedish

1 entries

skenben noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Tagalog

1 entries

lulod noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Thai

1 entries

แข้ง noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Tibetan

1 entries

ངར་གདུང noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Turkish

3 entries

incik noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
kaval kemiği noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
şin noun (Semitic letter)

Ukrainian

2 entries

голі́нка noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
гомі́лка noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Unami

1 entries

hwìkxkòn noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Vietnamese

3 entries

ống khuyển noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
ống quyển noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
ống đồng noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Volapük

1 entries

tibiad noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Welsh

1 entries

crimog noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Xhosa

1 entries

imbande noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Yagara

1 entries

buyu noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Yiddish

1 entries

שין noun (Semitic letter)

Yoruba

2 entries

ojúgun noun (front part of the leg below the knee)
àgbàkùrójú noun (front part of the leg below the knee)

Sample sentences

15 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Tom kicked Mary in the shin.

Source: tatoeba (2643583)

Where are my shin guards?

Source: tatoeba (6713555)

I've cut my shin open.

Source: tatoeba (6978093)

She took some painkillers to take the edge off the pain in her shin.

Source: tatoeba (9004091)

Showing 4 of 15 available sentences.

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