Akinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• a kin, a-kin (obsolete)

語源

From a corruption of of kin, from 中期英語 of kyn (“related, of kin”), equivalent to a- +‎ kin (1550s). Compare 古期英語 cyn, cynn (“akin, proper, suitable”, adj.).

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /əˈkɪn/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ʌˈkɪn/
• 韻: -ɪn

形容詞

akin (comparative more akin, superlative most akin)

1. (of persons) Of the same kin; related by blood.
   • 1722 (indicated as 1721), [Daniel Defoe], The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c. […], London: […] W[illiam Rufus] Chetwood, […]; and T. Edling, […], published 1722, →OCLC, page 137:

     [W]e are too near a kin to lye together, tho' vve may Lodge near one another; […]

   • 1897, Joseph Conrad, The Children of the Sea: A Tale of the Forecastle, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, →OCLC:

     The faces changed, passing in rotation. Youthful faces, bearded faces, dark faces: faces serene, or faces moody, but all akin with the brotherhood of the sea.

2. (often followed by to) Allied by nature; similar; partaking of the same properties; of the same kind.
   • 1677, Theophilus Gale, The Court of the Gentiles, T. Cockeril, part 4, bk. 1, ch. 2, p. 27:

     Is not then Fruition near akin to Love?

   • 1710 March 20 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, March 9, 1709–1710. To the Spectator, &c..”, in The Spectator, number 8; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 39:

     She told me that she hoped my Face was not akin to my Tongue.

     The spelling has been modernized.

   • 1836 March – 1837 October, Charles Dickens, chapter XXXIX, in The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1837, →OCLC:

     Mr. Winkle . . . took his hand with a feeling of regard, akin to veneration.

   • 1910 July, Zane Grey, “Old Well-Well”, in Success:

     Something akin to a smile shone on his face.

   • 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52:

     I'll be interested to see how this service does. It will be basic with fares to match, so will be akin to a budget airline taking on a flag-carrier.

   • 2022 January 19, Robert Alexander, “What 2020’s pro-Trump phony electors means for 2024”, in CNN‎, archived from the original on 16 August 2022:

     After all, that would be akin to a self-coup. Apart from the traditional vision of a coup requiring a military takeover of the government, self-coups occur when governments depart from typical norms of democracy by altering election laws, calling into question election results or seeking to suspend their constitutions in order to stay in power.

   • 2025 May 12, Jeff Edwards, “Rods from God: Unleashing Orbital Kinetic Bombardment as a Theoretical Defense System”, in Mira Safety‎, archived from the original on 7 August 2025:

     Picking up speed with each passing second, the rod would then penetrate the ground and generate an explosion akin to a small nuclear weapon using nothing but gravity for its propulsion.

使用する際の注意点

• This adjective is always placed after the noun that it modifies.

同意語

• (related by blood): See also Thesaurus:consanguine
• (of the same kind): See also Thesaurus:akin

派生語

• akinness
• unakin

動詞

akin (third-person singular simple present akins, present participle akinning, simple past and past participle akinned)

1. (rare) To relate or compare; to liken.

   I like to akin the P-Diddy case to Gen-Z's version of the O.J. Simpson trial.

参照

アナグラム

• kain, naik, Kian, Kain, Inka, kina, Naik