quinar

Inherited from Romani kinel, from Sanskrit क्रीणाति (krīṇāti), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *krináHti, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷrinéh₂ti, from *kʷreyh₂-.

quinar

1. to buy

• Paspati, Alexandre G. (1870), “kináva”, in Études sur les Tchinghianés; ou, Bohémiens de l'Empire ottoman (in French), Constantinople: Impr. A. Koroméla, page 286
• Francisco Quindalé (1867), “quinar”, in Diccionario gitano‎^[1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Oficina Tipográfica del Hospicio, retrieved 1 September 2021

• Hyphenation: qui‧nar

From quina (“quina, a lottery game”) +‎ -ar.^[1][2]

quinar (first-person singular present quino, first-person singular preterite quinei, past participle quinado)

1. (intransitive) to get a five-number sequence right in a lottery game

• quina

From quina (“cinchona”) +‎ -ar.^[1][2]

quinar (first-person singular present quino, first-person singular preterite quinei, past participle quinado)

1. (oenology, transitive) to prepare (something) with cinchona

• quina

From quina (“corner”) +‎ -ar.^[1][2]

quinar (first-person singular present quino, first-person singular preterite quinei, past participle quinado)

1. (metallurgy, transitive) to bend in the shape of a corner

• quina
• esquina

Borrowed from Spanish quiñar (“to kill”).^[1][2]

quinar (first-person singular present quino, first-person singular preterite quinei, past participle quinado)

1. (colloquial, intransitive) to die
2. (colloquial, intransitive) to become wasted (very drunk or stoned)

• quinado

• “quinar”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026