Definition of "Kachin"

Kachin

noun
plural only
1. Any of a number of non-Burman ethnolinguistic groups in Kachin State, Burma, including the Jingpho people.
proper noun
1. A state of Myanmar.
2. The Jingpho language.
  Quotations
  Some of the Yaw Yin people understand Kachin, but as would be natural, are more acquainted with Chinese, and will probably in time be reached through this language.
  1896, American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, Annual Report (volume 82, page 92)