sinh
/sin/
sinh noun: a traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
Noun
sinh (plural sinhs)
- A traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
- These dancers with their graceful upright carriage, their dreamy distant expressions and their party sins (the women were wearing sins made of brightly-coloured silk woven in squares and broad stripes and usually worn by men) were infinitely more appealing than the younger dancers and the...1992, Lucretia Stewart, Tiger balm: travels in Laos, Vietnam & Cambodia, page 25
- The only enforced dress codes now [in Laos] are for female public servants who continue to wear the sinh, though outside of work they can wear what they like.1998, Grant Evans, The Politics of Ritual and Remembrance: Laos Since 1975, →ISBN, page 86
sinh meaning in Tamil
sinh in Tamil
- அரி
Forms of sinh
| plural | sinhs |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sin |
| alternative form | pha sin |
| alternative form | phaa sin |
Origin of sinh
Borrowed from Lao ສິ້ນ (sin) or Thai ซิ่น (sîn).
Questions about sinh
- What does sinh mean?
- Sinh means a traditional tube skirt worn by Lao and Thai women, particularly northern Thai and northeastern Thai women.
- What is sinh in Tamil?
- Sinh in Tamil is அரி. See Sinh meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is sinh?
- Sinh is a noun.
- How do you pronounce sinh?
- Sinh is pronounced /sin/.
- What is the plural of sinh?
- The plural of sinh is sinhs.
Words near sinh in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: sinh (page history and authors); sinh (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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