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Definitions and meaning of din

din

Translingual

Etymology

Clipping of English Dinka.

Symbol

din

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-3 language code for Dinka.

See also

  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Dinka terms

English

Pronunciation

  • enPR: dĭn, IPA(key): /dɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Middle English dyne, dynne, from Old English dyne, from Proto-West Germanic *duni, from Proto-Germanic *duniz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰún-is, from *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”).

Cognate with English tone, Sanskrit धुनि (dhúni, “sounding”), ध्वनति (dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norse dynr, Norwegian Nynorsk dynja, Swedish dån, dön.

Noun

din (countable and uncountable, plural dins)

  1. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
Quotations
  • For quotations using this term, see Citations:din.
Synonyms
  • See also Thesaurus:din
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dynnen, from Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwen- (“to make a noise”).

Verb

din (third-person singular simple present dins, present participle dinning, simple past and past participle dinned)

  1. (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,[2]
      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!
  2. (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.
  3. (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,[6]
      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.
  4. (transitive) To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.
Synonyms
  • (repeat continuously): drum.
Derived terms
  • outdin
  • unbedinned
Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

din (uncountable)

  1. (Islam) Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).

See also

Anagrams

  • DNI, IDN, IND, Ind, Ind., in d., ind., nid

Abinomn

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

din (dual dirom, plural doidi)

  1. (anatomy) calf

References

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, Latvian diena, Lithuanian dėina, Old Prussian dēinā.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /din/

Verb

din (aorist diu, participle dinë)

  1. to break (of the day)

Related terms

  • di
  • gdhij

References

Azerbaijani

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [din]

Noun

din (definite accusative dini, sound plural dinlər, broken plural ədyan)

  1. religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “din” in Obastan.com.

Basque

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /din/ [d̪ĩn]
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Hyphenation: din

Verb

din

  1. Feminine allocutive form of du.

Usage notes

Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.

Breton

Pronoun

din

  1. first-person singular of da

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz (“your”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diːn/, [d̥iːˀn]

Determiner

din (neuter dit, plural dine)

  1. your, thy (singular; one owner)
  2. yours, thine (singular; one owner)

See also

Galician

Verb

din

  1. third-person plural present indicative of dicir

Iban

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /din/

Adverb

din

  1. there (very far from the speaker)

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay din, from Arabic دِين (dīn).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɪn]

Noun

din (plural din-din)

  1. religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)
    Synonym: agama

Related terms

Further reading

  • “din” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Kapampangan

Alternative forms

  • ren, den
  • rin (colloquial)

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *dən (completive particle). Compare Tagalog din, Aklanon eon, Cebuano ron, and Maranao den.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdin/ [ˈdin]
  • Hyphenation: rin

Adverb

din

  1. too; also; really
    Synonyms: saka, mo, pati, ampo, man, tagana, tutu
  2. finally
    Synonyms: sawakas, kawakas, katawli, simap naman

Usage notes

  • When the preceding word ends with a vowel, rin is used instead, but the distinction isn't always made. Other words with this phenomenon include den, deni, deng, deta, de, do, and da.

Derived terms

See also

Kiput

Etymology

From Proto-North Sarawak *daqan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daqan.

Noun

din

  1. branch

Ladino

Etymology

Borrowed from Hebrew דִּין (din).

Noun

din m (Hebrew spelling דין)

  1. religious law

Further reading

  • Aitor García Moreno, editor (2013–), “din¹”, in Diccionario Histórico Judeoespañol (in Spanish), CSIC
  • Joseph Nehama, Jesús Cantera (1977) “din”, in Dictionnaire du Judéo-Espagnol (in French), Madrid: CSIC, →ISBN, page 142
  • Elli Kohen & Dahlia Kohen-Gordon (2000) “din”, in Ladino–English Concise Encyclopedic Dictionary, Hippocrene Books, →ISBN, page 117

Malay

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn).

Pronunciation

  • (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /den/
  • (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /dɪn/
  • Rhymes: -den, -en

Noun

din (Jawi spelling دين, plural din-din)

  1. 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 Arabic دِين (dīn).

Noun

din m (plural djien)

  1. (dated or puristic) religion
    Synonym: reliġjon

Etymology 2

Determiner

din (masculine dan, plural dawn)

  1. feminine singular of dan
    Alternative forms: dina, di
    Coordinate term: hedan (hedana)

Mandarin

Romanization

din

  1. nonstandard spelling of dìn

Usage notes

  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Middle English

Noun

din

  1. alternative form of dyne

Naga Pidgin

Etymology

Inherited from Assamese দিন (din).

Noun

din

  1. day

Derived terms

North Frisian

Determiner

din

  1. (Sylt) thy (first-person singular possessive determiner)
  2. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of dan (“thy”)

Pronoun

din (plural (Sylt) dinen)

  1. (Sylt) yours, thine (first-person singular possessive pronoun)
  2. (Föhr-Amrum) feminine/neuter of dan (“yours, thine”)
  3. (Mooring) feminine/neuter/plural of dan (“yours, thine”)

See also

Northern Kurdish

Alternative forms

  • dî

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Adjective

din (not comparable)

  1. other

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈtiːn/

Pronoun

dīn

  1. accusative/genitive of dii

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þínn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diːn/

Determiner

din m (feminine di, neuter ditt, plural dine)

  1. your, yours

See also

References

  • “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
  • “din” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þínn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /din/

Determiner

din m (feminine di, neuter ditt, plural dine)

  1. your, yours

Declension

References

  • “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Preposition

din

  1. inside; alternative form of dins

Old High German

Alternative forms

  • thin

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *þīn, whence also Old English þīn, Old Norse þínn.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diːn/

Pronoun

dīn

  1. genitive singular of du

Determiner

dīn

  1. your (singular)

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle High German: dīn
    • Alemannic German: diin, dyn
    • Bavarian: dei
    • Cimbrian: dain, doi (Luserna)
    • 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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dʲin͈]

Article

din

  1. of/from the sg

Romanian

Etymology

From de + în.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /din/
  • Rhymes: -in

Preposition

din (+accusative)

  1. on, on top of
  2. from, out of

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian thīn, from Proto-West Germanic *þīn. Cognates include West Frisian dyn and German dein.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɪn/

Determiner

din (feminine dien, neuter dien, plural dien, predicative dinnen)

  1. thy, your

See also

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “din”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

Spanish

Noun

din

  1. clipping of dinero

Further reading

  • “din”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /d̪ɪn̪ː/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

From Old Swedish þīn, from Old Norse þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þīnaz.

Determiner

din c (neuter singular ditt, plural dina)

  1. your, yours (speaking to one person)
  2. you; vocative determiner used before a common noun.
Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

din

  1. definite singular of di

References

  • din in Svensk ordbok (SO)
  • din in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
  • din in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Tagalog

Alternative forms

  • rin
  • den, ren — colloquial

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *dən (completive particle). Compare Aklanon eon, Cebuano ron, and Maranao den.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /ˈdin/ [ˈd̪ɪn̪], (colloquial) /ˈden/ [ˈd̪ɛn̪]
  • Rhymes: -in
  • Syllabification: din

Adverb

din (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈ᜔)

  1. too; also
    Synonyms: saka, man

Usage notes

  • When the preceding word ends with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, rin is used instead, but the distinction isn't always made. Other words with this phenomenon include dito, diyan, doon, and daw.

Derived terms

See also

Further reading

  • “din”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila, 2018

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish دین, from Arabic دِين (dīn) with some influence from Middle Persian (see the Arabic term for details).

Noun

din (definite accusative dini, plural dinler)

  1. (religion) System of beliefs dealing with soul, deity or life after death.
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Verb

din

  1. second-person singular imperative of dinmek

Uzbek

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai دین (dīn /⁠dīn⁠/), from Classical Persian دین (dīn), from Arabic دِينٌ m (dīnun).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /din/, [d̪in]
  • Hyphenation: din

Noun

din (plural dinlar)

  1. religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)

Declension

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ding.

Noun

din (nominative plural dins)

  1. thing

Declension

Derived terms

  • dinöf
  • dinöfik

Welsh

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /diːn/
  • Rhymes: -iːn
  • Homophone: dyn (South Wales)

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh din, from Old Welsh din, from Proto-Brythonic *din, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”).

Noun

din m

  1. (obsolete) 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”)

Mutation

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

din

  1. 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

din c (plural dinnen, diminutive dintsje)

  1. pine, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

Further reading

  • “din (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Cognate with Yoruba dẹ́n, Èkìtì Yoruba dị́n, Itsekiri dẹ́n, Ifè ɖɛ̃́, Igala dẹ́, and Olukumi dín. Proposed to be derived from Proto-Yoruboid *dɪ̃́

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dĩ́/

Verb

dín

  1. to fry in oil
    a dín ata ― We fried pepper
Synonyms
Derived terms
  • díndín
  • adín (“fried food”)
  • ìdín (“frying”)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dĩ́/

Verb

dín

  1. (transitive, arithmetic) to subtract
  2. (intransitive) to become reduced in number
Derived terms

Zhuang

Etymology

From Proto-Tai *tiːnᴬ (“foot”). Cognate with Thai ตีน (dtiin), Lao ຕີນ (tīn), Lü ᦎᦲᧃ (ṫiin), Shan တိၼ် (tǐn), Ahom 𑜄𑜢𑜃𑜫 (tin), Bouyei dinl.

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /tin˨˦/
  • Tone numbers: din1
  • Hyphenation: din

Noun

din (Sawndip forms 䟓 or 𬻚 or 𭴀 or 丁 or 𮛷 or 𧿬 or 䠄 or 𦘭 or 伩 or 𱓂, 1957–1982 spelling din)

  1. foot (of a human)
  2. base; foot; lowest part of an object

See also

  • nyauj

Source: wiktionary.org