Dinkan.adj.
/ˈdɪŋkə/ A. n.
A member of a Sudanese people or their language; collective, this people.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Sudan or Nile > [noun]
Nigritian1738
Sudan1799
Sudanese1826
Dinka1861
Sudani1874
fuzzy1890
fuzzy-wuzzy1892
Nilote1893
Nilotic1906
1861 J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Central Afr. xx. 345 The Dinka, an extensive negro tribe, inhabit the eastern interior.
1861 J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Central Afr. xx. 360 The Djibba speak a different language from the Dinkas.
1873 E. E. Frewer tr. G. Schweinfurth Heart of Afr. II. 501 List of mammalia observed during my travels..with their native names... Dinka: Agohk. Dyoor: Abworro. Bongo: Gumbi.
1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 317/1 (note) 1 The same expression ‘jet black’ is applied by Schweinfurth to the Upper-Nilotic Shilluks, Nuers, and Dinkas.
1900 Daily News 27 Feb. 5/7 Four days before reaching Bahr el Jaraf I was attacked by Dinkas.
1926 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 562/1 The native Dinka never hurries unless he is being hunted.
1949 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in M. Fortes Social Struct. 86 Marriages of adopted Dinka into collateral major, and even minor, lineages undoubtedly take place sometimes.
1968 Y. R. Chao Lang. & Symbolic Syst. 99 Dinka and Luo..have almost 1 million speakers each.
B. adj.
Of or pertaining to this people.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Africa > native or inhabitant of North Africa > native or inhabitant of Sudan or Nile > [adjective]
Nilotic1653
Nigritian1757
Sudanian1837
Sudanese1853
Dinka1861
1861 J. Petherick Egypt, Soudan & Central Afr. xx. 348 Five Dinka children.
1926 Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 561/2 Wol explained in the Dinka dialect the reason and object of my sudden visit.
1949 E. E. Evans-Pritchard in M. Fortes Social Struct. 86 The adoption of a Dinka boy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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