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din
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: d?n, IPA(key): /d?n/
- Rhymes: -?n
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 *d?ún-is, from *d?wen- (“to make a noise”).
Cognate with Sanskrit ???? (dhúni, “sounding”), ?????? (dhvánati, “to make a noise, to roar”), Old Norse dynr, Norwegian Nynorsk dynja.
Noun
din (countable and uncountable, plural dins)
- A loud noise; a cacophony or loud commotion.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
- Think you a little din can daunt mine ears?
- 1850, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, Canto 87, p. 129,[2]
- 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:
- 1998, Ian McEwan, Amsterdam, New York: Anchor, 1999, Part 1, Chapter 1, pp. 9-10,[4]
- 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,[5]
- 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.
- c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act I, Scene 2,[1]
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:din
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:din.
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English dynnen, from Old English dynnan, from Proto-Germanic *dunjan?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?wen- (“to make a noise”).
Verb
din (third-person singular simple present dins, present participle dinning, simple past and past participle dinned)
- (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,[6]
- 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,[7]
- 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,[8]
- 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 […]
- 1820, William Wordsworth, “The Waggoner” Canto 2, in The Miscellaneous Poems of William Wordsworth, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, Volume 2, p. 21,[6]
- (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,[9]
- The room was dinning with the strains of an invisible orchestra and the vocal uproar […]
- 1914, Rex Beach, The Auction Block, New York: Harper & Bros., Chapter 3, p. 33,[9]
- (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,[10]
- 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,[11]
- 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.
- 1716, Joseph Addison, The Free-Holder: or Political Essays, London: D. Midwinter & J. Tonson, No. 8, 16 January, 1716, pp. 45-46,[10]
- (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,[12]
- This has been often dinned in my Ears.
- 1866, Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters, Chapter 50,[13]
- “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, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 6,[14]
- 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.
- 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,[12]
Derived terms
- outdin
Synonyms
- (repeat continuously): drum.
Etymology 3
Noun
din (uncountable)
- (Islam) Alternative spelling of deen (“religion, faith, religiosity”).
Anagrams
- IDN, IND, Ind, Ind., in d., ind., nid
Abinomn
Noun
din
- (anatomy) calf
Albanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /din/
Etymology
From Proto-Albanian *deina (“day”), from Proto-Indo-European *dey-no-, ultimately from *dyew- (“to shine”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *d?n?, Latvian diena, Lithuanian d?ina, Old Prussian d?in?.
Alternative forms
- dihet
Verb
din (first-person singular past tense diu, participle dinë)
- to break (of the day)
Related terms
- di
- gdhij
References
Azerbaijani
Etymology
Ultimately from Arabic ????? (d?n).
Noun
din (definite accusative dini, plural dinl?r)
- religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)
Declension
Breton
Pronoun
din
- first-person singular of da
Danish
Etymology
From Old Norse þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þ?naz (“your”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di?n/, [d?i??n]
Determiner
din (neuter dit, plural dine)
- your, thy (singular; one owner)
- yours, thine (singular; one owner)
See also
Galician
Verb
din
- third-person plural present indicative of dicir
Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay din, from Arabic ????? (d?n).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?n]
Noun
din (first-person possessive dinku, second-person possessive dinmu, third-person possessive dinnya)
- religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)
- Synonym: agama
Further reading
- “din” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Kiput
Etymology
From Proto-North Sarawak *daqan, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *daqan.
Noun
din
- branch
Ladino
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew ?????? (din).
Noun
din m (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling ????)
- religious law
Malay
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????? (d?n).
Pronunciation
- (Johor-Selangor) IPA(key): /den/
- (Riau-Lingga) IPA(key): /d?n/
- Rhymes: -den, -en
Noun
din (Jawi spelling ????, plural din-din, informal 1st possessive dinku, impolite 2nd possessive dinmu, 3rd possessive dinnya)
- 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): /di?n/
Etymology 1
From Arabic ????? (d?n).
Noun
din m (plural djien)
- (dated or puristic) religion
- Synonym: reli?jon
Etymology 2
Determiner
din
- feminine singular of dan
Middle English
Noun
din
- Alternative form of dynne
Northern Sami
Pronunciation
- (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /?ti?n/
Pronoun
d?n
- accusative/genitive of dii
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse þínn.
Pronunciation
Determiner
din m (feminine di, neuter ditt, plural dine)
- your, yours
See also
References
- “din” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse þínn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /din/ (example of pronunciation)
Determiner
din m (feminine di, neuter ditt, plural dine)
- your, yours
See also
References
- “din” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Preposition
din
- inside; alternative form of dins
Old High German
Alternative forms
- thin
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *þ?n, whence also Old English þ?n, Old Norse þínn.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di?n/
Pronoun
d?n
- genitive singular of du
Determiner
d?n
- your (singular)
Inflection
This determiner needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Middle High German: d?n
- Alemannic German: diin, dyn
- Cimbrian: dain, doi
- German: dein
- Hunsrik: dein
- Luxembourgish: däin
- Yiddish: ????? (dayn)
References
- Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, second edition.
Old Irish
Etymology
Univerbation of di +? in
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d?in?]
Article
din
- of/from the sg
Romanian
Etymology
From de + în.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /din/
Preposition
din (+accusative)
- on, on top of
- from, out of
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian th?n, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?n. Cognates include West Frisian dyn and German dein.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?n/
Determiner
din (feminine dien, neuter dien, plural dien, predicative dinnen)
- thy, your
See also
References
- “din” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch
Swedish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish þ?n, from Old Norse þínn, from Proto-Germanic *þ?naz.
Determiner
din c (neuter ditt, plural dina)
- your, yours; of one thing in the common gender (speaking to one person)
- you (only in this use:)
Declension
Etymology 2
Noun
din
- definite singular of di
Tagalog
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /din/
Particle
din
- Indicates affirmation: too, also
Usage notes
This form is mainly used after words ending in a consonant, while rin is used following words that end in a vowel. The distinction is not always made, however.
Turkish
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Arabic ????? (d?n).
Noun
din (definite accusative dini, plural dinler)
- (religion) System of beliefs dealing with soul, deity or life after death.
Declension
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Verb
din
- second-person singular imperative of dinmek
Uzbek
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ????? (d?n).
Noun
din (plural dinlar)
- religion (system of beliefs dealing with soul, deity and/or life after death)
Declension
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from German Ding.
Noun
din (nominative plural dins)
- thing
Declension
Derived terms
- dinöf
- dinöfik
Welsh
Etymology 1
From Proto-Celtic *d?nom (“stronghold”).
Noun
din m
- (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
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Noun
din
- Soft mutation of tin.
Mutation
West Frisian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?n/
Noun
din c (plural dinnen, diminutive dintsje)
- pine, coniferous tree of the genus Pinus.
Further reading
- “din (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
Zhuang
Etymology
From Proto-Tai *ti?n? (“foot”). Cognate with Thai ??? (dtiin), Lao ??? (t?n), Lü ??? (?iin), Shan ???? (t?n), Ahom ???????????????? (tin), Bouyei dinl.
Pronunciation
- (Standard Zhuang) IPA(key): /tin??/
- Tone numbers: din1
- Hyphenation: din
Noun
din (Sawndip forms ? or ???? or ???? or ? or ???? or ???? or ? or ???? or ?, old orthography din)
- foot (of a human)
- base; foot; lowest part of an object
See also
- nyauj
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stir
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /st??/
- (General American) IPA(key): /st?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Etymology 1
From Middle English stiren, sturien, from Old English styrian (“to be in motion, move, agitate, stir, disturb, trouble”), from Proto-Germanic *sturiz (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), related to Proto-Germanic *staurijan? (“to destroy, disturb”). Cognate with Old Norse styrr (“turmoil, noise, confusion”), German stören (“to disturb”), Dutch storen (“to disturb”).
Verb
stir (third-person singular simple present stirs, present participle stirring, simple past and past participle stirred)
- (transitive) To incite to action
- Synonyms: arouse, instigate, prompt, excite; see also Thesaurus:incite
- (transitive) To disturb the relative position of the particles of, a liquid of suchlike, by passing something through it
- Synonym: agitate
- (transitive) To agitate the content of (a container), by passing something through it.
- (transitive) To bring into debate; to agitate; to moot.
- (transitive, dated) To change the place of in any manner; to move.
- (intransitive) To move; to change one’s position.
- (intransitive) To be in motion; to be active or bustling; to exert or busy oneself.
- (intransitive) To become the object of notice; to be on foot.
- (intransitive, poetic) To rise, or be up and about, in the morning.
- Synonyms: arise, get up, rouse; see also Thesaurus:wake
- “Mid-Lent, and the Enemy grins,” remarked Selwyn as he started for church with Nina and the children. Austin, knee-deep in a dozen Sunday supplements, refused to stir; poor little Eileen was now convalescent from grippe, but still unsteady on her legs; her maid had taken the grippe, and now moaned all day: “Mon dieu! Mon dieu! Che fais mourir!”
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
Usage notes
- In all transitive senses except the dated one (“to change the place of in any manner”), stir is often followed by up with an intensive effect; as, to stir up fire; to stir up sedition.
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- The act or result of stirring (moving around the particles of a liquid etc.)
- agitation; tumult; bustle; noise or various movements.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Why all these words, this clamour, and this stir?
- .
- Consider, after so much stir about genus and species, how few words we have yet settled definitions of.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1668, John Denham, Of Prudence (poem).
- Public disturbance or commotion; tumultuous disorder; seditious uproar.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Being advertised of some stirs raised by his unnatural sons in England.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:stir.
- 1612, Sir John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- Agitation of thoughts; conflicting passions.
Derived terms
- cause a stir
- stirless
- upstir
Translations
Etymology 2
From Romani stariben (“prison”), nominalisation of (a)star (“seize”), causative of ast (“remain”), probably from Sanskrit ???????? (?ti??hati, “stand or remain by”), from ??????? (ti??hati, “stand”).
Noun
stir (countable and uncountable, plural stirs)
- (slang) Jail; prison.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
- Sing Sing was a tough joint in those days, one of the five worst stirs in the United States.
- The Bat—they called him the Bat. […]. He'd never been in stir, the bulls had never mugged him, he didn't run with a mob, he played a lone hand, and fenced his stuff so that even the fence couldn't swear he knew his face.
- 1928, Jack Callahan, Man's Grim Justice: My Life Outside the Law (page 42)
Derived terms
- stir-crazy
Anagrams
- ISTR, RTIs, Rist, TRIS, TRIs, Tris, rits, sirt, tris, tris-
Danish
Verb
stir
- imperative of stirre
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