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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Satellite imagery collected by Amnesty International shows the destruction of homes and other civilian buildings, including a temple, in the central areas of Wau Shilluk.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 20, 2017
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
In a country where 85 percent of women are illiterate, she had translated the Old Testament from English to Shilluk.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 6, 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 apparently belonged to the Shilluk tribe, which extends far into the east, for Kali and Mea understood their speech excellently and Stas partly.
From In Desert and Wilderness by Henryk Sienkiewicz
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
While the proud Shilluks watched intently, Anei Kur seized the stool by one leg.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stately Shilluks still spear lion and crocodile, still stand for hours, cranelike, on one foot.
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
Behaving with great steadiness, and helped by Shilluks, after a stiff fight the dervishes were driven off, after losing a number of men, by Marchand's little garrison.
From Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan by Bennet Burleigh
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