deen

deen

See also: Deen

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic دِين‎ (dīn).

Noun

deen (uncountable)

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

Translations

(Islam) religion; religiosity; the way of life of a pious Muslim

Albanian: din (sq) m Arabic: دِين‎ (ar) m (dīn) Azerbaijani: din (az) Bashkir: дин (din) Bengali: দ্বীন (dẇīn) Chechen: дин (din) Chuvash: тӗн (tĕn) Crimean Tatar: din French: din (fr) m Hindi: दीन (hi) m (dīn) Kazakh: дин (din) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: دین‎ (ku) m (dîn) Northern Kurdish: dîn (ku) m Kyrgyz: дин (ky) (din) Malay: din (ms) Ossetian: дин (din) Pashto: دين‎ (ps) m (din) Persian: دین‎ (fa) (din) Russian: дин (ru) m (din) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ди̑н m Roman: dȋn (sh) m Swahili: dini (sw) class n Tajik: дин (tg) (din) Tatar: дин (tt) (din) Turkish: din (tr) Turkmen: din Urdu: دین‎ m (dīn) Uyghur: دىن‎ (ug) (din) Uzbek: din (uz)

religion — see religion

Islam — see Islam

Anagrams

• Dene, Dené, Eden, Ende, dene, eden, ende, need

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Basque

Noun

deen

1. genitive plural of de

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeːn/, [ˈde̞ːn]
• Rhymes: -eːn
• Syllabification^(key): deen

Noun

deen

1. genitive singular of dee

Anagrams

• Eden

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Luxembourgish

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deːn/
  • Rhymes: -eːn

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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Middle English

Noun

deen

1. Alternative form of den (“dean”)

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Yola

Etymology

Perhaps related to don (“to dress”).

Verb

deen

1. to dress
   • 1867, GLOSSARY OF THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY:

     Deen theezil.

     Dress thyself.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 33