din

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English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old English dyne, from Proto-Germanic *duniz. Akin to Old Norse dynr, Sanskrit ध्वनति (“to make a noise, to roar”).

Noun[edit]

din (plural dins)

  1. A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
    • So many faces Clive had not 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 - Amsterdam by Ian McEwen
    • 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 7, 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.
    • Shakespeare
      Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
    • Sir Walter Scott
      He knew the battle's din afar.
    • Tennyson
      the dust and din and steam of town
Quotations[edit]
Translations[edit]
loud noise

Etymology 2[edit]

From Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjan, from the same stem as Etymology 1, above.

Verb[edit]

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

  1. (obsolete) To be filled with sound; to resound.
  2. (transitive) To assail with loud noise.
  3. (transitive) To repeat continuously, as though to the point of deafening or exhausting somebody.
    • Jonathan Swift
      This hath been often dinned in my ears.
    2003, His mother had dinned The Whole Duty of Man into him in early childhood — Roy Porter, Flesh in the Age of Reason (Penguin 2004, p. 183)
  4. (intransitive) To make a din.

Anagrams[edit]

Azeri[edit]

Other scripts
Cyrillic дин‍
Roman din‍
Perso-Arabic ‍دین‍

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic دين (dīn).

Noun[edit]

din definite accusative dini plural dinlər

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

Declension[edit]

declension of din
singular plural
absolute din dinlər
definite accusative dini dinləri
dative dinə dinlərə
locative dində dinlərdə
ablative dindən dinlərdən
definite genitive dinin dinlərin

Breton[edit]

Preposition[edit]

din

  1. first-person singular of da

Danish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA: /diːn/, [d̥iːˀn]

Pronoun[edit]

din (neuter dit, plural dine)

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

See also[edit]

Danish personal pronouns
Number Person Inflection Nominative Accusative Possessive Reflexive Reflexive possessive
Singular First common jeg mig min
neuter mit
plural mine
Second common du dig din
neuter dit
plural dine
formal De Dem Deres
Third masculine han ham hans sig sin
feminine hun hende hendes
common den den dens
neuter det det dets sit
plural sine
Plural First — vi os vores
common vor
neuter vort
plural vore
Second – I jer jeres
formal De Dem Deres
Third – de dem deres sig

Galician[edit]

Verb[edit]

din

  1. third-person plural present indicative of dicir

Indonesian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Malay din, from Arabic دين (dīn).

Noun[edit]

din

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

Kiput[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

din

  1. branch

Ladino[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Hebrew דין.

Noun[edit]

din m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling דין)

  1. religious law

Lojban[edit]

Rafsi[edit]

din

  1. rafsi of jdini.

Malay[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic دين (dīn).

Pronunciation[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

din

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

Synonyms[edit]

Maltese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic ذي (ḏī), plus accusative case ending اً (-an)

Pronunciation[edit]

Determiner[edit]

din f

  1. feminine form of dan

Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse þinn.

Pronoun[edit]

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

  1. your, yours

References[edit]

  • “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

See also[edit]

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål
Nominative Objective case Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person jeg meg min m
Second person du deg din m
Third person m han han/ham hans
Third person f hun henne hennes
Third person n det det dets
Third person, nonhuman m/f den den dens
Plural
First person vi oss vår m
Second person dere dere deres
Third person de dem deres

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse þinn.

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

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

  1. your, yours

References[edit]

  • “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

See also[edit]

    Personal pronouns in Nynorsk
Nominative Objective case Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person eg meg min m
Second person du deg din m
Third person m han han, honom3 hans
Third person f ho ho, henne hennar, hennes4
Third person n det, dat1 det, dat1 dess 2
Plural
First person me, vi oss vår m
Second person de, dokker dykk, dokker dykkar, dokkar, deires4
Third person dei dei, deim3 deira
Notes
1Never part of official Nynorsk/Landsmål. Primarily used before Landsmål received an official written norm.
2Rare or literary
3No longer part of the official written norm. Now primarily used in Høgnorsk texts.
4No longer part of the official written norm. These non-traditional forms were added to the norm to either approach the the Samnorsk ideal or certain dialects.

Occitan[edit]

Preposition[edit]

din

  1. inside; alternative form of dins.

Old High German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

dīn

  1. your (singular)

Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From de + în.

Preposition[edit]

din (+accusative)

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

Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

din

  1. definite singular of di

Pronoun[edit]

din c (neuter ditt, plural dina)

  1. your, yours; of one thing in the common gender (speaking to one person)

Declension[edit]

Swedish personal pronouns
subject object possessive
singular full full common neuter plural
1st person jag mig min mitt mina
2nd person du dig din ditt dina
3rd person masculine han honom hans
3rd person feminine hon henne hennes
3rd person common den den dess
3rd person neuter det det dess
3rd person indefinite man en ens
3rd person reflexive — sig sin sitt sina
plural
1st person vi oss vår vårt våra
2nd person ni er er ert era
3rd person de dem deras
3rd person reflexive — sig sin sitt sina

Turkish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic دين (dīn).

Noun[edit]

din (definite accusative dini, plural dinler)

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

Derived terms[edit]

Derived terms

Declension[edit]

declension of din
singular (tekil) plural (çoğul)
nominative (yalın) din dinler
definite accusative (belirtme) dini dinleri
dative (yönelme) dine dinlere
locative (bulunma) dinde dinlerde
ablative (çıkma) dinden dinlerden
genitive (tamlayan) dinin dinlerin

Uzbek[edit]

Other scripts
Cyrillic дин‍
Roman din‍
Perso-Arabic ‍‍

Etymology[edit]

From Arabic دين (dīn).

Noun[edit]

din (plural dinlar)

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

Volapük[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Ding.

Noun[edit]

din (plural dins)

  1. thing

Declension[edit]

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

Derived terms[edit]

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