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Korin vs Kirin - What's the difference?

korin | kirin |

As a noun korin

is a small gazelle native to west africa, eudorcas rufifrons .

As a verb kirin is

to buy.

korin

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small gazelle native to West Africa, Eudorcas rufifrons .
  • * 1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 64:
    • Aoudads, korins , mhorrs and mambas. Hartebeests. Wild asses. Rats the size of piglets...

    Synonyms

    * red-fronted gazelle ----

    kirin

    English

    (wikipedia kirin)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A mythical Chinese hooved chimerical creature, said to appear in conjunction with the arrival of a sage.
  • * 1989 , Ernst J. Grube, Eleanor G. Sims, Islamic Art: Volume 3
    • ...a red and gold textile with phoenixes in one row swooping towards qilins in the next amidst a densely foliated ground...
  • * 2001 , David J. Roxburgh, Prefacing the image: the writing of art history in sixteenth-century Iran
    • Roundel depicting dragon attacked by qilins ; mounted on an album page.
  • * 2010 , Molly Blaisdell, Necdet Yilmaz, Truth about Unicorns
    • When the qilin leaves, the emperor traces the shapes he saw into the dirt.

    Synonyms

    * qilin