Dinah

English

Etymology

Hebrew דִּינָה (dīna, "judged, vindicated"); see דין.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaɪnə/
• Rhymes: -aɪnə
• Homophone: diner (in nonrhotic accents)

Proper noun

Dinah

1. A daughter of Jacob and Leah. (biblical character)
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:
     : Genesis 34: 1-2:

     And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land. And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, prince of the country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.

2. A female given name from Hebrew of biblical origin. Alternative form of Dina.
   • 1944, Eric Linklater, The Wind on the Moon:

     Every child in the Square at once hurried and thrust and scrambled and pushed a way through the crowd, and in less than a minute Dinah and Dorinda were entirely surrounded by fifty or sixty boys and girls, all shouting […]

Translations

female given name — see Dina

See also

• Dina

Anagrams

• ahind, handi

Cebuano

Etymology

From English Dinah, from Hebrew דִּינָה (dīna, “judged, vindicated”).

Proper noun

Dinah

1. a female given name from English [in turn from Hebrew]