Word.ws English Dictionary

Dinka

Dinka noun: a member of a tribe of South Sudan.

Noun

Dinka (plural Dinkas or Dinka)

  1. A member of a tribe of South Sudan.
    Synonyms:
    Janghey

Proper noun

Dinka

  1. The Nilo-Saharan language spoken by these people.

Synonyms of Dinka

Forms of Dinka

pluralDinkas
pluralDinka

Origin of Dinka

From Dinka Jiɛ̈ɛ̈ŋ (“people”).

Questions about Dinka

What does Dinka mean?
Dinka means a member of a tribe of South Sudan.
What part of speech is Dinka?
Dinka can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Dinka?
The plural of Dinka is Dinkas.

Words near Dinka in the dictionary

  1. dinituximab
  2. Diniz
  3. Dinizes
  4. Dinjii Zhuʼ Ginjik
  5. dink
  6. Dinka
  7. Dinkaland
  8. Dinkas
  9. dinked
  10. dinkel
  11. Dinkelland

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Dinka (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Dinka.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dinka. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.