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Definitions and meaning of din
din
Pronunciation
enPR: dĭn, IPA(key): /dɪn/
Rhymes: -ɪn
Etymology 1
From Middle Englishdin, dinne, dynne, from Old Englishdyne, from Proto-West Germanic*duni, from Proto-Germanic*duniz, from Proto-Indo-European*dʰún-is, from *dʰwen-(“to make a noise”).
Cognate with Sanskritधुनि(dhúni, “sounding”), ध्वनति(dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norsedynr, Norwegian Nynorskdynja.
Noun
din (countable and uncountable, pluraldins)
A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
c.1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, Canto 87, p. 129,[2]
How often, hither wandering down,
My Arthur found your shadows fair,
And shook to all the liberal air
The dust and din and steam of town:
1998, Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, New York: Anchor, 1999, Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 9-10,[4]
So many faces Clive had never seen by daylight, and looking terrible, like cadavers jerked upright to welcome the newly dead. Invigorated by this jolt of misanthropy, he moved sleekly through the din, ignored his name when it was called, withdrew his elbow when it was plucked [...]
2014, Daniel Taylor, “England and Wayne Rooney see off Scotland in their own back yard,” The Guardian, 18 November 2014,[5]
England certainly made a mockery of the claim that they might somehow be intimidated by the Glasgow din. Celtic Park was a loud, seething pit of bias.
Synonyms
See also Thesaurus:din
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:din.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle Englishdinnen, from Old Englishdynnan, from Proto-Germanic*dunjaną, from Proto-Indo-European*dʰwen-(“to make a noise”).
Verb
din (third-person singular simple presentdins, present participledinning, simple past and past participledinned)
(intransitive) To make a din, to resound.
1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21,[6]
For, spite of rumbling of the wheels,
A welcome greeting he can hear;—
It is a fiddle in its glee
Dinning from the CHERRY TREE!
1920, Zane Grey, “The Rube’s Pennant” in The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, p. 68,[7]
My confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory.
1924, Edith Wharton, Old New York: New Year’s Day (The ’Seventies), New York: D. Appleton & Co., Chapter 4, pp. 62-63,[8]
Should she speak of having been at the fire herself—or should she not? The question dinned in her brain so loudly that she could hardly hear what her companion was saying […]
(intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
1914, Rex Beach, The Auction Block, New York: Harper & Bros., Chapter 3, p. 33,[9]
The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]
(transitive) To assail (a person, the ears) with loud noise.
1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46,[10]
She ought in such Cases to exert the Authority of the Curtain Lecture; and if she finds him of a rebellious Disposition, to tame him, as they do Birds of Prey, by dinning him in the Ears all Night long.
1817, John Keats, “On the Sea” in Richard Monckton Milnes (editor), Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats, London: Edward Moxon, 1848, Volume 2, p. 291,[11]
Oh ye! whose ears are dinn’d with uproar rude,
Or fed too much with cloying melody,—
Sit ye near some old cavern’s mouth, and brood
Until ye start, as if the sea-nymphs quired!
1938, Graham Greene, Brighton Rock, New York: Vintage, 2002, Chapter 1,
No alarm-clock dinned her to get up but the morning light woke her, pouring through the uncurtained glass.
(transitive) To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.
1724, Jonathan Swift The Hibernian Patriot: Being a Collection of the Drapier’s Letters to the People of Ireland concerning Mr. Wood’s Brass Half-Pence, London, 1730, Letter 2, p. 61,[12]
This has been often dinned in my Ears.
1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 50,[13]
“Mamma, do you forget that I have promised to marry Roger Hamley?” said Cynthia quietly.
“No! of course I don’t—how can I, with Molly always dinning the word ‘engagement’ into my ears? […]”
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 6,[14]
By careful early conditioning, by games and cold water, by the rubbish that was dinned into them at school and in the Spies and the Youth League, by lectures, parades, songs, slogans, and martial music, the natural feeling had been driven out of them.
2004, Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason, Penguin, page 183,
His mother had dinnedThe Whole Duty of Man into him in early childhood.
Derived terms
outdin
Synonyms
(repeat continuously):drum.
Anagrams
IDN, IND, Ind, Ind., in d., ind., nid
Abinomn
Noun
din
(anatomy) calf
Albanian
Alternative forms
dihet
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian*deina(“day”), from Proto-Indo-European*dey-no-, ultimately from *dyew-(“to shine”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic*dьnь, Latviandiena, Lithuaniandėina, Old Prussiandēinā.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /din/
Verb
din (first-person singular past tensediu, participledinë)
to break (of the day)
Related terms
di
gdhij
References
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabicدِين (dīn).
Noun
din (definite accusativedini, pluraldinlər)
religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)
Declension
Breton
Pronoun
din
first-person singular of da
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norseþínn, from Proto-Germanic*þīnaz(“your”).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /diːn/, [d̥iːˀn]
Determiner
din (neuterdit, pluraldine)
your, thy (singular; one owner)
yours, thine (singular; one owner)
See also
Galician
Verb
din
third-person plural present indicative of dicir
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malaydin, from Arabicدِين (dīn).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): [ˈdɪn]
Noun
din (plural, first-person possessivedinku, second-person possessivedinmu, third-person possessivedinnya)
religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)
Synonym:agama
Further reading
“din” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Kiput
Etymology
From Proto-North Sarawak*daqan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian*daqan.
religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)
Synonyms
agama
anutan
kepercayaan
Further reading
“din” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.
Maltese
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /diːn/
Etymology 1
From Arabicدِين (dīn).
Noun
dinm (pluraldjien)
(dated, puristic) religion
Synonym:reliġjon
Etymology 2
Determiner
din
feminine singular of dan
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
(Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈtiːn/
Pronoun
dīn
accusative/genitive of dii
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norseþínn.
Pronunciation
Determiner
dinm (femininedi, neuterditt, pluraldine)
your, yours
See also
References
“din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norseþínn.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /din/ (example of pronunciation)
Determiner
dinm (femininedi, neuterditt, pluraldine)
your, yours
See also
References
“din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Preposition
din
inside; alternative form of dins
Old High German
Alternative forms
thin
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*þīn, whence also Old Englishþīn, Old Norseþínn.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /diːn/
Pronoun
dīn
genitive singular of du
Determiner
dīn
your (singular)
Inflection
This determiner needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
Middle High German: dīn
Alemannic German: diin, dyn
Cimbrian: dain, doi
German: dein
Hunsrik: dein
Luxembourgish: däin
Yiddish: דײַן (dayn)
References
Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, second edition.
Old Irish
Etymology
Univerbation of di + in
Article
din
of/from the sg
Romanian
Etymology
From de + în.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /din/
Preposition
din (+accusative)
on, on top of
from, out of
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisianthīn, from Proto-West Germanic*þīn. Cognates include West Frisiandyn and Germandein.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /dɪn/
Determiner
din (femininedien, neuterdien, pluraldien, predicativedinnen)
thy, your
References
“din” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedishþīn, from Old Norseþínn, from Proto-Germanic*þīnaz.
Determiner
dinc (neuterditt, pluraldina)
your, yours; of one thing in the common gender (speaking to one person)
you (only in this use:)
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
din
definite singular of di
Tagalog
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /din/
Particle
din
Indicates affirmation: too, also
Usage notes
This form is mainly used after words ending in a consonant, while rin is used following words that end in a vowel. The distinction is not always made, however.
Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabicدِين (dīn).
Noun
din (definite accusativedini, pluraldinler)
(religion) System of beliefs dealing with soul, deity or life after death.
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
din
second-person singular imperative of dinmek
Uzbek
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabicدِين (dīn).
Noun
din (pluraldinlar)
religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from GermanDing.
Noun
din (nominative pluraldins)
thing
Declension
Derived terms
dinöf
dinöfik
Welsh
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic*dūnom(“stronghold”).
Noun
dinm
city, fort, stronghold
Usage notes
Found chiefly as an element in place names, e.g. Dinbych (Denbigh), Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen).
Derived terms
dinas(“city”)
murddin(“fortification”)
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
din
Soft mutation of tin.
Mutation
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /dɪn/
Noun
dinc (pluraldinnen, diminutivedintsje)
pine, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
Further reading
“din (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Zhuang
Etymology
From Proto-Tai*tiːnᴬ(“foot”). Cognate with Thaiตีน(dtiin), Laoຕີນ(tīn), Lüᦎᦲᧃ(ṫiin), Shanတိၼ်(tǐn), Ahom𑜄𑜢𑜃𑜫(tin), Bouyeidinl.
Pronunciation
(Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /tin˨˦/
Tone numbers: din1
Hyphenation: din
Noun
din (Sawndip forms䟓, 𬻚, 𭴀, 丁, 𮛷, 𧿬, 䠄, 𦘭, 伩, old orthographydin)