deen

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English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Arabic دِين (dīn)

Noun

deen (uncountable)

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  1. (Islam) religion; religiosity; the way of life of a pious Muslim
    • 2014, CHANEL, Purple Ink Presents Savage Sisters by Chanel, iUniverse →ISBN
      Sterling was Muslim, and although he wasn't on his deen, Shanice and Shakira felt that he should have had a Janazah.
    • 2016, Skepta, Shutdown, on Konnichiwa
      You say you're Muslim, you say you're Rasta / Say you don't eat pork, don't eat pussy / Liar, you're just an actor / Blud, you're not on your deen

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German then, den, from Proto-Germanic *þanōn, by analogy with the adjective inflection.

Pronunciation

Determiner

deen m (unstressed den)

  1. the (definite article)
  2. that (demonstrative)

Usage notes

The stressed form of the definite article is used when emphasis is placed on the word ("that" as opposed to merely "the") and when it is used before an adjective.

Declension

Luxembourgish definite articles
masculine feminine neuter plural
nom./acc. deen (den) déi (d') dat (d') déi (d')
dat. deem (dem) där (der) deem (dem) deen (den)
gen. der

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Verb

deen

  1. to dress

References

  • J. Poole W. Barnes, A Glossary, with Some Pieces of Verse, of the Old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy (1867)