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din

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

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

From Middle English dynne, dyne, dyn, 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.

din (countable and uncountable, plural dins)

1. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.

   • c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?

   • 1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Fifth. The Court.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza IV, page 245:

     [B]red to war, / He knew the battle’s din afar, / And joyed to hear it swell.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto LXXXVII, page 129:

     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:

   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     The patter of feet, and clatter of strap and swivel, seemed to swell into a bewildering din, but they were almost upon the fielato offices, where the carretera entered the town, before a rifle flashed.

   • 1998, Ian McEwan, Amsterdam‎^[1], New York: Anchor, published 1999, Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 9-10:

     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 [...]

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:din.

• See also Thesaurus:din

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

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!

   • 1920, Zane Grey, “The Rube’s Pennant”, in The Redheaded Outfield and Other Baseball Stories‎^[3], New York: Grosset & Dunlap, page 68:

     My confused senses received a dull roar of pounding feet and dinning voices as the herald of victory.

   • 1924, Edith Wharton, chapter 4, in Old New York: New Year’s Day (The ’Seventies)‎^[4], New York: D. Appleton & Co., pages 62–63:

     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 […]

2. (intransitive) (of a place) To be filled with sound, to resound.

   • 1914, Rex Beach, chapter 3, in The Auction Block‎^[5], New York: Harper & Bros., page 33:

     The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]

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.

   • 1817, John Keats, “On the Sea”, in Richard Monckton Milnes, editor, Life, Letters, and Literary Remains, of John Keats‎^[7], volume 2, London: Edward Moxon, published 1848, page 291:

     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, chapter 1, in Brighton Rock, New York: Vintage, published 2002:

     No alarm-clock dinned her to get up but the morning light woke her, pouring through the uncurtained glass.

4. (transitive) To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.

   • 1724, The Hibernian Patriot: Being a Collection of the Drapier’s Letters to the People of Ireland concerning Mr. Wood’s Brass Half-Pence‎^[8], London: Jonathan Swift, published 1730, Letter 2, p. 61:

     This has been often dinned in my Ears.

   • 1864 August – 1866 January, [Elizabeth] Gaskell, chapter 50, in Wives and Daughters. An Every-day Story. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], published 1866, →OCLC:

     “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 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 6, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001:

     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 dinned The Whole Duty of Man into him in early childhood.

• (repeat continuously): drum.

• outdin
• unbedinned

din (uncountable)

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

(etymologically unrelated terms containing "din"):

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

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

din (dual dirom, plural doidi)

1. (anatomy) calf^[1]

• dihet

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.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /din/

din (aorist diu, participle dinë)

1. to break (of the day)

• di
• gdhij

Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn).

• IPA^(key): [din]

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

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

• “din” in Obastan.com.

din

1. first-person singular of da

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

• IPA^(key): /diːn/, [d̥iːˀn]

din (neuter dit, plural dine)

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

din

1. third-person plural present indicative of dicir

• IPA^(key): /din/

din

1. there (very far from the speaker)

From Malay din, from Arabic دِين (dīn).

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɪn]

din (plural din-din)

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

   Synonym: agama

• “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.

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

din

1. branch

Borrowed from Hebrew דִּין (din).

din m (Hebrew spelling דין)

1. religious law

• 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

Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn).

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

din (Jawi spelling دين, plural din-din, informal 1st possessive dinku, 2nd possessive dinmu, 3rd possessive dinnya)

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

• agama
• anutan
• kepercayaan

• “din” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

• IPA^(key): /diːn/

From Arabic دِين (dīn).

din m (plural djien)

1. (dated or puristic) religion

   Synonym: reliġjon

din (masculine dan, plural dawn)

1. feminine singular of dan

   Coordinate term: hedan (hedana)

   Alternative forms: dina, di

din

1. Nonstandard spelling of dìn.

• 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.

din

1. Alternative form of dynne

Inherited from Assamese দিন (din).

din

1. day

din

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

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”)

• dî

• IPA^(key): /dɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

din (not comparable)

1. other

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn/

dīn

1. accusative/genitive of dii

From Old Norse þínn.

• IPA^(key): /diːn/

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

1. your, yours

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

From Old Norse þínn.

• IPA^(key): /din/

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

1. your, yours

• “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

din

1. inside; alternative form of dins

• thin

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

• IPA^(key): /diːn/

dīn

1. genitive singular of du

dīn

1. your (singular)

• Middle High German: dīn
  • Alemannic German: diin, dyn
  • Bavarian: dei
  • Cimbrian: dain, doi (Luserna)
  • German: dein
  • Hunsrik: dein
  • Luxembourgish: däin
  • Yiddish: דײַן (dayn)

• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, second edition.

Univerbation of di +‎ in

• IPA^(key): [dʲin͈]

din

1. of/from the sg

From de + în.

• IPA^(key): /din/
• Rhymes: -in

din (+accusative)

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

   unul din doi

   one out of two

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

• IPA^(key): /dɪn/

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

1. thy, your

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

din

1. Clipping of dinero.

• “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

• IPA^(key): /d̪ɪn̪ː/
• Rhymes: -ɪn

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

din c (neuter singular ditt, plural dina)

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

   Din jävla idiot!

   You bloody idiot!

   Din lille fan!

   You little bastard!

din

1. definite singular of di

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

• rin
• den, ren — colloquial

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

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

din (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒᜈ᜔)

1. too; also

   Synonyms: saka, man

• 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.

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

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

din (definite accusative dini, plural dinler)

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

din

1. second-person singular imperative of dinmek

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

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

din (plural dinlar)

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

Borrowed from German Ding.

din (nominative plural dins)

1. thing

   • 1946, “Nuns”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 34:

     Söl: ‚Tarnow’ äbinom konletan zilik dinas valik teföl valemapükis valasotik. Bukem valemapükik omik, kel äbinon ba gretikün un Deutän, ye pedistukon ti löliko.

     Mr. Tarnow was an industrious collector of all things in the field of world languages. His library, which was probably the largest in Germany, has, however, been almost completely destroyed.

• dinöf
• dinöfik

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

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

din m

1. (obsolete) city, fort, stronghold

Found chiefly as an element in place names, e.g. Dinbych (Denbigh), Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen).

• dinas (“city”)
• murddin (“fortification”)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

din

1. Soft mutation of tin.

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

• IPA^(key): /dɪn/

din c (plural dinnen, diminutive dintsje)

1. pine, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.

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

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

• IPA^(key): /dĩ́/

dín

1. to fry in oil

   a dín ata ― We fried pepper

Yoruba Varieties and Languages - dín (“to fry”)
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Language Family	Variety Group	Variety/Language	Subdialect	Location	Words
Proto-Itsekiri-SEY	Southeast Yoruba	Ìdànrè (Ùdànè, Ùdànrè)	Ìdànrè (Ùdànè, Ùdànrè)	dẹ́n
Ìjẹ̀bú	Ìjẹ̀bú	Ìjẹ̀bú Òde	dẹ́n
Rẹ́mọ	Ẹ̀pẹ́	dẹ́n
Ìkòròdú	dẹ́n
Ṣágámù	dẹ́n
Ìkálẹ̀ (Ùkálẹ̀)	Òkìtìpupa	dẹ́n
Ìlàjẹ (Ùlàjẹ)	Mahin	dẹ́n
Oǹdó	Oǹdó	dẹ́n
Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀)	Ọ̀wọ̀ (Ọ̀ghọ̀)	dẹ́n
Usẹn	Usẹn	dẹ́n
Ìtsẹkírì	Ìwẹrẹ	dẹ́n
Olùkùmi	Ugbódù	dín
Proto-Yoruba	Central Yoruba	Èkìtì	Èkìtì	Àdó Èkìtì	dị́n
Àkúrẹ́	Àkúrẹ́	dị́n
Mọ̀bà	Ọ̀tùn Èkìtì	dị́n
Northwest Yoruba	Èkó	Èkó	dín
Ìbàdàn	Ìbàdàn	dín
Ìlọrin	Ìlọrin	dín
Oǹkó	Òtù	dín
Ìwéré Ilé	dín
Òkèhò	dín
Ìsẹ́yìn	dín
Ṣakí	dín
Tedé	dín
Ìgbẹ́tì	dín
Ọ̀yọ́	Ọ̀yọ́	dín
Standard Yorùbá	Nàìjíríà	dín
Bɛ̀nɛ̀	dín
Northeast Yoruba/Okun	Owé	Kabba	dín
Ede Languages/Southwest Yoruba	Ifɛ̀	Akpáré	ɖɛ̃́
Atakpamɛ	ɖɛ̃́
Est-Mono	ɖɛ̃́
Tchetti (Tsɛti, Cɛti)	ɖɛ̃́
Note: This amalgamation of terms comes from a number of different academic papers focused on the unique varieties and languages spoken in the Yoruboid dialectal continuum which extends from eastern Togo to southern Nigeria. The terms for spoken varieties, now deemed dialects of Yorùbá in Nigeria (i.e. Southeast Yorùbá, Northwest Yorùbá, Central Yorùbá, and Northeast Yorùbá), have converged with those of Standard Yorùbá leading to the creation of what can be labeled Common Yorùbá (Funṣọ Akere, 1977). It can be assumed that the Standard Yorùbá term can also be used in most Nigerian varieties alongside native terms, especially amongst younger speakers. This does not apply to the other Nigerian Yoruboid languages of Ìṣẹkírì and Olùkùmi, nor the Èdè Languages of Benin and Togo.

• díndín
• adín (“fried food”)
• ìdín (“frying”)

• IPA^(key): /dĩ́/

dín

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

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

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

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

• nyauj