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Meanings of dinka in English
Nilotic dialect cluster spoken by the Dinka people, the major ethnic group of South Sudan.
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Examples for "din"
Examples for "din"
1
The noise awakened the baby; who added his wails to the din.
2
Above the general din he heard the detestable voice of the turnkey.
3
I dinna' want ye to think me too barbaric to look at.
4
They left off their couplings and set up a din of welcome.
5
The intolerable din and struggle of the week are at an end.
Usage of dinka in English
1
The Dinka knew this was not a good place for them anymore.
2
Remember when the army was made of Dinka soldiers and Arabs, too?
3
Two or three versts further the Dinka flowed across the Irkutsk road.
4
They say that we caught a disease only the Dinka can get.
5
In Ethiopia there were no Nuer, no Dinka, no Fur or Nubians.
6
And then, like a wave, the yelling of hundreds of Dinka men.
7
Several Dinka sat around flattened boxes spread on the ground, playing cards.
8
With it he killed an infidel soldier, a Dinka, in personal combat.
9
The northern boundaries, as far as the Dinka are concerned, remain the same.
10
She's a Dinka and her journey north took her several days.
11
He answers the call and begins to talk quickly in Dinka.
12
There were about seventeen thousand Dinka there, so we felt safe.
13
He was my age, a boy who looked not dissimilar to us Dinka.
14
He had not now to trouble himself about crossing the Dinka.
15
Murahaleen-shereacted to that word as would any Dinka or Nuban, with terror.
16
Can you imagine this, Red Army, a Dinka man shooting down a helicopter?
Frequent collocations
Dinka through the time