afín
Spanish, noun/aˈfin/
afín is spelled A-F-Í-N (4 letters) and appears 2.4 times per million words in written Spanish, the 19,948th most frequent Spanish word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Afín is a Spanish feminine noun meaning “relative through marriage” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).
What does afín mean in English?
adjective
- 1
femininemasculineakin, related (standing in connection)
- 2
femininemasculineadjacent (lying next to)
noun
- 1
femininemasculinerelative through marriage
Source: English Wiktionary, Spanish section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Spanish dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Que está cerca o al lado. 2. Que tiene afinidad (en sus diferentes acepciones: parecido, características en común, capacidad de combinarse) con otro. 3. Que tiene parentesco por afinidad (por ser pariente del cónyuge). 4. Dicho de una función: cuya fórmula es ⃑f(⃑x)=A·⃑x+⃑b, la cual representa una recta en el plano para el caso de una única dimensión.
The definition in the Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), in Spanish.
Source: Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of afín
- afines feminine masculine plural
- afina feminine
- afinas feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce afín?
- /aˈfin/
- [aˈfĩn]
Sources: English Wiktionary, Spanish Wiktionary (Wikcionario) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to afín
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is afín in Spanish?
afín appears 2.4 times per million words in written Spanish.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).