i:n ‘the hole, or lair, of a wild animal’. S.i.a.m.l.g. Türkü viii ff. (I am a golden-headed snake; cut my belly with a sword and) özü:m yul inti:n başımı:n yul evi:nti:n ‘pull me out of the hole and my head out of the berries(?)’ IrkB 8: Xak. xi i:n ‘the den (‘arīn) of a lion, the hole (wicār) of a snake and the lair (ma’wā) of any predatory animal’; also pronounced yi:n Kaş. I 49; yin ‘a lion’s den’, hence one says arsla:n yini:; also ‘the hole’ of a snake, and ‘the lair’ of any predatory animal with fangs or tusks (ḏū nāb) is called yin III 5 (prov. with Dat. yinke:, verse with Dat. yinka: in error): Çağ. xv ff. in (by implication ‘with i-’) sürāx wa xāna-i cānvarān ‘hole, or abode, of wild beasts’ San. 117v. 4 (quotn.): Xwar. xiv in ‘hole’ Qutb 50: Kom. xiv ditto CCG; Gr.: Kıp. xiii al-mağāra ‘a cave’ in Hou. 5, 18: xiv (after 1 en) also applied (yuṭlaq) in Kıp. to al-wakr wa’l-wicār ‘the nest or hole’ of a wild animal or the abodes (buyūt) of reptiles; hence yılan inidür ‘it is the hole (cuḥr) of a snake’ İd. 23; al-wakr in Bul. 3, 16: xv cuḥr in Tuh. 10a. 10: Osm. xv in ‘hole, hiding place’ (for a man) in one text TTS I 379.