din

See also: DIN, Din, dín, dìn, dîn, -din, and dìŋ

Translingual

Symbol

din

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

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭn, IPA^(key): /dɪn/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

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 Sanskrit धुनि (dhúni, “sounding”), ध्वनति (dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norse dynr, Norwegian Nynorsk dynja.

Noun

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 87, 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, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, in The Dust of Conflict‎^[1]:

     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, New York: Anchor, 1999, Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 9-10,^[2]

     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,^[3]

     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.

Quotations

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

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:din

Translations

loud noise

• Bulgarian: врява (bg) f (vrjava), глъчка (bg) f (glǎčka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 耳鳴／耳鸣 (zh) (ěrmíng), 吵鬧／吵闹 (zh) (chǎonào)

• Czech: hluk (cs) m, rámus (cs) m, kravál (cs) m
• Dutch: lawaai (nl), geschreeuw (nl)
• Finnish: meteli (fi), metakka (fi), mekkala (fi)
• French: vacarme (fr) m, boucan (fr) m (colloquial)
• Galician: estrondo m, rebumbio m, balbordo m
• German: Lärm (de) m, Krach (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: κέλαδος m (kélados), (of battle) ὅμαδος m (hómados)

• Irish: gleo
• Italian: baccano (it) m, frastuono (it) m, schiamazzo (it) m, strepitio (it) m
• Japanese: 騒音 (ja) (そうおん, sōon)
• Korean: 소음(騷音) (ko) (so'eum)
• Latin: strepitus m, clāmor m
• Macedonian: врева f (vreva)
• Maori: tararau, matioke
• Norman: tinné m
• Norwegian: drønn
• Old English: dyn m
• Polish: hałas (pl) m, gwar (pl) m, zgiełk (pl) m, rumor (pl) m
• Portuguese: estrépido m, algazarra (pt) f, clamor (pt) m
• Russian: гул (ru) m (gul), шум (ru) m (šum), гвалт (ru) m (gvalt), гро́хот (ru) m (gróxot), галдёж (ru) m (galdjóž) (people or animals)
• Sardinian:

  Logudorese: chighìlliu, chimentu

• Slovene: ropot m, trušč m
• Spanish: estruendo (es) m
• Telugu: గోల (te) (gōla), గొడవ (te) (goḍava)

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,^[4]

     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,^[5]

     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,^[6]

     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, The Auction Block, New York: Harper & Bros., Chapter 3, p. 33,^[7]

     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,^[8]

     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,^[9]

     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.

4. (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,^[10]

     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.

Synonyms

• (repeat continuously): drum.

Derived terms

• outdin

Translations

to make noise

• Czech: hlučet, dělat rámus

to resound

to assail with noise

• Czech: ohlušovat

to repeat continuously

• Czech: hučet (cs) (do koho)

Etymology 3

Noun

din (uncountable)

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

See also

etymologically unrelated terms containing "din"

• beth din
• din-din
• din-dins

 

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

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 (first-person singular past tense diu, participle dinë)

1. to break (of the day)

Related terms

• di
• gdhij

Azerbaijani

Other scripts

Cyrillic		дин
Perso-Arabic		دین‎

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِين‎ (dīn).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [din]

• Audio

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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

Declension of din
	singular	plural
		sound	broken
nominative	din	dinlər	ədyan
definite accusative	dini	dinləri	ədyanı
dative	dinə	dinlərə	ədyana
locative	dində	dinlərdə	ədyanda
ablative	dindən	dinlərdən	ədyandan
definite genitive	dinin	dinlərin	ədyanın

Possessive forms of din
	nominative
	singular	plural
		sound	broken
mənim (“my”)	dinim	dinlərim	ədyanım
sənin (“your”)	dinin	dinlərin	ədyanın
onun (“his/her/its”)	dini	dinləri	ədyanı
bizim (“our”)	dinimiz	dinlərimiz	ədyanımız
sizin (“your”)	dininiz	dinləriniz	ədyanınız
onların (“their”)	dini or dinləri	dinləri	ədyanı
	accusative
	singular	plural
		sound	broken
mənim (“my”)	dinimi	dinlərimi	ədyanımı
sənin (“your”)	dinini	dinlərini	ədyanını
onun (“his/her/its”)	dinini	dinlərini	ədyanını
bizim (“our”)	dinimizi	dinlərimizi	ədyanımızı
sizin (“your”)	dininizi	dinlərinizi	ədyanınızı
onların (“their”)	dinini or dinlərini	dinlərini	ədyanını
	dative
	singular	plural
		sound	broken
mənim (“my”)	dinimə	dinlərimə	ədyanıma
sənin (“your”)	dininə	dinlərinə	ədyanına
onun (“his/her/its”)	dininə	dinlərinə	ədyanına
bizim (“our”)	dinimizə	dinlərimizə	ədyanımıza
sizin (“your”)	dininizə	dinlərinizə	ədyanınıza
onların (“their”)	dininə or dinlərinə	dinlərinə	ədyanına
	locative
	singular	plural
		sound	broken
mənim (“my”)	dinimdə	dinlərimdə	ədyanımda
sənin (“your”)	dinində	dinlərində	ədyanında
onun (“his/her/its”)	dinində	dinlərində	ədyanında
bizim (“our”)	dinimizdə	dinlərimizdə	ədyanımızda
sizin (“your”)	dininizdə	dinlərinizdə	ədyanınızda
onların (“their”)	dinində or dinlərində	dinlərində	ədyanında
	ablative
	singular	plural
		sound	broken
mənim (“my”)	dinimdən	dinlərimdən	ədyanımdan
sənin (“your”)	dinindən	dinlərindən	ədyanından
onun (“his/her/its”)	dinindən	dinlərindən	ədyanından
bizim (“our”)	dinimizdən	dinlərimizdən	ədyanımızdan
sizin (“your”)	dininizdən	dinlərinizdən	ədyanınızdan
onların (“their”)	dinindən or dinlərindən	dinlərindən	ədyanından
	genitive
	singular	plural
		sound	broken
mənim (“my”)	dinimin	dinlərimin	ədyanımın
sənin (“your”)	dininin	dinlərinin	ədyanının
onun (“his/her/its”)	dininin	dinlərinin	ədyanının
bizim (“our”)	dinimizin	dinlərimizin	ədyanımızın
sizin (“your”)	dininizin	dinlərinizin	ədyanınızın
onların (“their”)	dininin or dinlərinin	dinlərinin	ədyanının

Derived terms

• din-iman
• dinçi
• dindar
• dindarlıq
• dindaş
• dindaşlıq
• dini
• dinpərəst
• dinpərəstlik
• dinpərvər
• dinpərvərlik
• dinsiz
• dinsizlik

 

Further reading

• “din” in Obastan.com.

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

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	mig	min	mit	mine
	Second	modern / informal	du	dig	din	dit	dine
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine (person)	han	ham	hans
		feminine (person)	hun	hende	hendes
		common(noun)	den		dens
		neuter(noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	sig	sin	sit	sine
Plural	First	modern	vi	os	vores
		archaic / formal			vor	vort	vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	sig

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 (first-person possessive dinku, second-person possessive dinmu, third-person possessive dinnya)

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

   Synonym: agama

Further reading

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

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 (Latin spelling, 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, informal 1st possessive dinku, 2nd possessive dinmu, 3rd possessive dinnya)

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

1. feminine singular of dan

Middle English

Noun

din

1. Alternative form of dynne

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /ˈtiːn/

Pronoun

dīn

1. accusative/genitive of dii

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse þínn.

Determiner

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

1. your, yours

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					feminine	masculine	neuter	plural
Singular	First	–	jeg	meg	mi	min	mitt	mine
	Second	–	du	deg	di	din	ditt	dine
	Third	feminine (person)	hun	henne	hennes
		masculine (person)	han	ham / han	hans
		feminine (noun)	den		dens
		masculine (noun)
		neuter (noun)	det		dets
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine
Plural	First	–	vi	oss	vår		vårt	våre
	Second	–	dere		deres
	Third	general	de	dem	deres
		reflexive	–	seg	si	sin	sitt	sine

References

• “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse þínn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /din/

Determiner

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

1. your, yours

Declension

    Declension of din

singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative-accusative	din	di	ditt
dative1	dinom	dinne	dino
plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative-accusative	dine	dina2	dine, di
dative1	dinom

¹: Rare or dialectal. ²: Unofficial today.

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

Strong declension of din

Singular	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dīnēr, dīn	dīniu, dīn	dīnaz, dīn
accusative	dīnan	dīna	dīnaz
genitive	dīnes	dīnera	dīnes
dative	dīnemu	dīneru	dīnemu
instrumental	dīnu	—	dīnu
Plural	masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	dīne, dīn	dīno, dīn	dīniu, dīn
accusative	dīne	dīno	dīniu
genitive	dīnero	dīnero	dīnero
dative	dīnēm	dīnēm	dīnēm

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

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

   din Spania

   from Spain

   unul din doi

   one out of two

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

Saterland Frisian possessives

Possessive determiners
	singular					plural
	1st	2nd	3rd m	3rd f	3rd n	1st	2nd	3rd
masculine	min	din	sin	hiere	sin	uus	jou	hiere
other	mien	dien	sien		sien
Possessive pronouns
	singular					plural
	1st	2nd	3rd m	3rd f	3rd n	1st	2nd	3rd
masculine	minnen	dinnen	sinnen	hierens	sinnen	uzen	jouens	hierens
other	mienen	dienen	sienen		sienen

References

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

Swedish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪnː/

• audio

  (file)

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; used for comparisons between the person spoken to and a common noun.

   Din jävla idiot!

   You bloody idiot!

   Din lille fan!

   You little bastard!

Declension

Swedish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Type	Nominative	Oblique	Possessive
					common	neuter	plural
singular	first	—	jag	mig, mej3	min	mitt	mina
	second	—	du	dig, dej3	din	ditt	dina
	third	masculine (person)	han	honom, han2, en5	hans
		feminine (person)	hon	henne, na5	hennes
		gender-neutral (person)1	hen	hen, henom7	hens
		common (noun)	den	den	dess
		neuter (noun)	det	det	dess
		indefinite	man or en4	en	ens
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina
plural	first	—	vi	oss	vår, våran2	vårt, vårat2	våra
	second	—	ni	er	er, eran2, ers6	ert, erat2	era
		archaic	I	eder	eder, eders6	edert	edra
	third	—	de, dom3	dem, dom3	deras
		reflexive	—	sig, sej3	sin	sitt	sina

¹Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, and has gained widespread acceptance today.

²Informal

³Colloquial pronunciation spelling.

⁴Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.

⁵Informal, somewhat dialectal

⁶Formal address

⁷Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdin/, [ˈdin]
• IPA^(key): /ˈden/, [ˈden] (colloquial)

Adverb

din

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

• gayundin

Related terms

• man
• naman

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

Inflection
Nominative	din
Definite accusative	dini
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	din	dinler
Definite accusative	dini	dinleri
Dative	dine	dinlere
Locative	dinde	dinlerde
Ablative	dinden	dinlerden
Genitive	dinin	dinlerin

Derived terms

Derived terms

• dinci
• dincilik
• dinli
• dinlilik
• dinsiz
• dinsizlik

Etymology 2

Verb

din

1. second-person singular imperative of dinmek

Uzbek

Other scripts
Cyrillic	дин (din)‍
Latin	din‍
Perso-Arabic

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِين‎ (dīn).

Noun

din (plural dinlar)

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

Declension

Declension of din

	singular	plural
nominative	din	dinlar
genitive	dinning	dinlarning
dative	dinga	dinlarga
definite accusative	dinni	dinlarni
locative	dinda	dinlarda
ablative	dindan	dinlardan

Possessive forms of din

my	singular	plural
nominative	dinim	dinlarim
genitive	dinimning	dinlarimning
dative	dinimga	dinlarimga
definite accusative	dinimni	dinlarimni
locative	dinimda	dinlarimda
ablative	dinimdan	dinlarimdan
your	singular	plural
nominative	dining	dinlaring
genitive	diningning	dinlaringning
dative	diningga	dinlaringga
definite accusative	diningni	dinlaringni
locative	diningda	dinlaringda
ablative	diningdan	dinlaringdan
her/his/its	singular	plural
nominative	dini	dinlari
genitive	dinining	dinlarining
dative	diniga	dinlariga
definite accusative	dinini	dinlarini
locative	dinida	dinlarida
ablative	dinidan	dinlaridan
our	singular	plural
nominative	dinimiz	dinlarimiz
genitive	dinimizning	dinlarimizning
dative	dinimizga	dinlarimizga
definite accusative	dinimizni	dinlarimizni
locative	dinimizda	dinlarimizda
ablative	dinimizdan	dinlarimizdan
your	singular	plural
nominative	diningiz	dinlaringiz
genitive	diningizning	dinlaringizning
dative	diningizga	dinlaringizga
definite accusative	diningizni	dinlaringizni
locative	diningizda	dinlaringizda
ablative	diningizdan	dinlaringizdan
their	singular	plural
nominative	dini	dinlari
genitive	dinining	dinlarining
dative	diniga	dinlariga
definite accusative	dinini	dinlarini
locative	dinida	dinlarida
ablative	dinidan	dinlaridan

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ding.

Noun

din (nominative plural dins)

1. thing

Declension

declension of din

	singular	plural
nominative	din	dins
genitive	dina	dinas
dative	dine	dines
accusative	dini	dinis
vocative 1	o din!	o dins!
predicative 2	dinu	dinus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• dinöf
• dinöfik

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn
• Homophones: dun, dyn (South Wales)

Etymology 1

From Middle 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

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
din	ddin	nin	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

din

1. Soft mutation of tin.

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
tin	din	nhin	thin
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dĩ́/

Verb

dín

1. to fry in oil

   a dín ata ― We fried pepper

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

• adín
• dínkù (“to decrease”)
• dínsí
• ìdín (“frying”)
• owó-orí-ọjà kògbọ́dín (“purchase price”)

 

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, 1957–1982 spelling din)

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

See also

• nyauj