nine

• Nine, NINE
• niner (England)

Borrowed from English nine.

• IPA^(key): [ˈnai̯na], like niner (nonrhotic)^[1]

nine

1. (international standards) NATO & ICAO radiotelephony clear code (spelling-alphabet name) for the digit 9.

   Synonym: novenine (ITU/IMO)

From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”). Cognate with Scots neen, nine (“nine”), Saterland Frisian njúgen (“nine”), West Frisian njoggen (“nine”), Dutch negen (“nine”), German Low German negen (“nine”), German neun (“nine”), Danish ni (“nine”), Swedish nio (“nine”), Icelandic níu (“nine”), Gothic 𐌽𐌹𐌿𐌽 (niun, “nine”), Latin novem (“nine”), Ancient Greek ἐννέα (ennéa, “nine”), Sanskrit नव (náva, “nine”).

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) enPR: nīn, IPA^(key): /naɪn/, [naɪ̯n]

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• (Indic) IPA^(key): /naj(ə)n/, [nɐi̯(ɐ)n]
• Rhymes: -aɪn

nine

1. A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten.
   • 2007, Thomas Mchenry, Along the Rails: A Juror's Journey‎^[2], page 85:

     Would they want me to vote my conscience or would they want us to unanimously go the whole nine yards, declare him sane and possibly have the trial end up in a death sentence?

   • 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv‎^[3], page 3‎^[4]:

     Of course, for a number to have a biography, we need to assume that none of its digits are present more than nine times.

   • 2021 February 10, Eoin McSweeney, “As Covid-19 cases rise in Nigeria, a government policy is creating crowds and chaos”, in CNN‎^[5]:

     Tamunowari Tetenta, a 20-year-old mechanical engineering student, says he has attempted to register for his NIN on nine different occasions in Port Harcourt, a city southeast of Lagos.

2. Describing a group or set with nine elements.

   A cat has nine lives.

• ninth
• ninther

• Table of cardinal numbers 0 to 9 in various languages

nine (plural nines)

1. The digit or figure 9.
   • 2008 March 2, Tanya Khovanova, “Autobiographical Numbers”, in arXiv‎^[6], page 3‎^[7]:

     Indeed, if a number does not have nines, you can remove or add zeroes at the end of a biography to get another biography of the same number.

2. (card games) A playing card with nine pips.
3. (weaponry) A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol.
   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 359:

     Hiro risks turning on a small flashlight, uses it to rummage around the yatcht, picking up valuable stuff: a few bottles of (presumably) drinkable water, some food, extra ammunition for his nine.

4. (computing, engineering, usually in the plural) A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.).

   They guaranteed that our Web site would have 99.99% uptime, or four nines.

5. (baseball) A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players).
   • 1877, Chicago Times, July 8, 1877:^[1]

     The St. Louis club is the only nine in the league which gives its patrons the right to see a full game or no pay.

• Roman numerals: IX

• Previous: eight (8)
• Next: ten (10)

• inne

• nin, nüün

From Middle High German niun, from Old High German niun, from Proto-Germanic *newun. Cognate with German neun, Dutch negen, English nine, Icelandic níu.

• IPA^(key): /ˈninə/

nine

1. (Alsatian) nine

nine

1. alternative form of nyne

nine

1. female

   nine kun

   woman

• yiri (“woman, wife”)

• neen, nyn, nyne

From Middle English nyne, nine, from Old English nigon (“nine”), from Proto-West Germanic *neun, from Proto-Germanic *newun (“nine”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁néwn̥ (“nine”).

nine

1. nine

• “nine, adj., n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 4 June 2024, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.
• “nyn, num.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 4 June 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.

From Proto-Nguni *niná.

niné

1. you, you all; second-person plural absolute pronoun.

possibly from baby talk. compare Persian ننه (“mother, grandmother”), Azerbaijani nənə (“grandmother”), Turkmen näne (“mother”) and Chinese 奶奶 (“paternal grandmother”).

• Hyphenation: ni‧ne

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nine (definite accusative nineyi, plural nineler)

1. grandmother

• büyükanne, anneanne, babaanne

• Ayverdi, İlhan (2010), “nine”, in Misalli Büyük Türkçe Sözlük, a reviewed and expanded single-volume edition, Istanbul: Kubbealtı Neşriyatı