deen

Arabic دِين‎ (dīn)

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

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

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

• IPA^(key): /deːn/
  • Rhymes: -eːn

deen m (unstressed den)

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

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.

deen

1. to dress

• 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)