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Shilluk

Shilluk noun: a member of a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group residing in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on both banks of the Nile River in Malakal.

Noun

Shilluk (plural Shilluks or Shilluk)

  1. A member of a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group residing in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on both banks of the Nile River in Malakal.
    • We find the legend of the creation of mankind out of clay among the Shilluks of the White Nile, who ingeniously explain the different complexions of the various races by the differently coloured clays out of which they were fashioned.1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 52

Proper noun

Shilluk

  1. The language of the Shilluk people.
  2. (historical) A kingdom dominated by the Shilluk people, located along the left bank of the White Nile in what is now South Sudan and southern Sudan, and existing from perhaps the late 15th century until the early 1860s.

Forms of Shilluk

pluralShilluks
pluralShilluk

Questions about Shilluk

What does Shilluk mean?
Shilluk means a member of a major Luo Nilotic ethnic group residing in the northeastern Upper Nile state of South Sudan on both banks of the Nile River in Malakal.
What part of speech is Shilluk?
Shilluk can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Shilluk?
The plural of Shilluk is Shilluks.

Words near Shilluk in the dictionary

  1. shillingworths
  2. shillmon
  3. shillmons
  4. Shillong
  5. shills
  6. Shilluk
  7. Shilluks
  8. shilly and shally
  9. shilly-shallied
  10. shilly-shallier
  11. shilly-shalliers

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