din

See also DIN

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: dĭn, IPA: /dɪn/, SAMPA: /dIn/

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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

Quotations

• For examples of the usage of this term see the citations page.

Translations

loud noise

Bulgarian: врява (bg) f., глъчка (bg) f. Irish: gleo (ga) Italian: clamore (it) m., schiamazzo (it) Latin: strepitus (la) m., clāmor (la) m. Mandarin: (simplified) 耳鸣 (cmn) (ěrmíng), (trad) 耳鳴 (cmn)

Polish: hałas (pl) m., gwar (pl) m., zgiełk (pl) m., rumor (pl) m. Russian: гул (ru) m., шум (ru) m., гвалт (ru) m. Slovene: ropot (sl) m., trušč (sl) m. Telugu: గోల (gOla), గొడవ (goDava)

Etymology 2

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

Verb

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.

   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

• D'ni, ind., Ind., in d., IND, nid

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Azeri

Other scripts
Cyrillic	дин‍
Roman	din‍
Perso-Arabic	‍دین‍

Etymology

From Arabic دين (dīn).

Noun

din definite accusative dini plural dinlər

1. religion

Declension

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

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Breton

Preposition

din

1. first-person singular of da

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Danish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /diːn/, [d̥iːˀn]

Pronoun

din (neuter dit, plural dine)

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

See also

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
		polite form	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
		polite form	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres	sig

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Galician

Verb

din

1. third-person plural present indicative of dicir

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Indonesian

Etymology

From Arabic دين (dīn).

Noun

din

1. religion

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Kiput

Etymology

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

Noun

din

1. branch

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Ladino

Etymology

From Hebrew דין.

Noun

din m. (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling דין)

1. religious law

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Lojban

Rafsi

din

1. Rafsi of jdini.

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Malay

Etymology

From Arabic دين (dīn).

Noun

din

1. faith, religion

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Maltese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɪn/

Determiner

din f.

1. feminine form of dan

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Norwegian

Etymology

From Old Norse þinn.

Pronoun

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

1. your, yours

References

• “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

	Nominative	Accusative	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

    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, honom	hans
Third person f.	ho	ho, henne	hennar
Third person n.	det, dat†	det, dat†	dess (rare, literary)
Plural
First person	me, vi	oss	vår m.
Second person	de	dykk	dykkar
Third person	dei	dei, deim†	deira

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Occitan

Preposition

din

1. inside; alternative form of dins.

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Old High German

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA: /diːn/

Pronoun

dīn

1. your (singular)

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Romanian

Etymology

From de + în.

Preposition

din (+accusative)

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

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

din

1. definite singular of di

Pronoun

din c. (neuter ditt, plural dina)

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

Declension

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

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Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic دين (diin).

Noun

din (definite accusative dini, plural dinler)

1. religion

Declension

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

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Uzbek

Etymology

From Arabic دين (diin).

Noun

din (plural dinlar)

1. religion

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Volapük

Etymology

From German Ding.

Noun

din (plural dins)

1. thing

Declension

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

• dinöf
• dinöfik