Shilluk
Americannoun
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Shilluks,
plural
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Shilluk
plural
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a member of a Nilotic people of Sudan.
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the Nilotic language of the Shilluk.
adjective
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Shilluk
First recorded in 1785–95; via Arabic from Shilluk, a self-designation
Example Sentences
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Thursday’s clashes in the Malakal camp occurred between members of the Shilluk and Nuer ethnic groups, a local representative of the displaced people told The Associated Press.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 9, 2023
When government troops attacked his hometown of Wau Shilluk in January, Koolekheh grabbed his wife and three children and left.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2017
But leaders of a third ethnic group, the Shilluk, who are loosely aligned with Machar’s Nuer forces, have vowed to take it back.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2016
For the most part, the camp’s residents exist together in relative peace, the Shilluk in sector one, the Nuer and Dinka in sector two.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2015
They occupy the country west of the White Nile between the Shilluk territory and Dar Nuba, being found principally in Kordofan.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
In the equatorial South, on the left bank of the White Nile, the King of the Shilluks sat under a mango tree, wearing a white sash and stroking his tufted beard.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bodyguard of towering Shilluks, their hair gummed with mud and cattle dung into rampant cockscombs a foot tall, gathered around Anei Kur.
From Time Magazine Archive
So the Shilluks cast their ballots at random.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike, on one foot.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Shilluks had all gone over and put themselves under Major Jackson and the Khedivial flag.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
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