Dinas
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Dinas may refer to :
- Dinas (weevil), a beetle genus in the tribe Sciaphilini
Places
- Wales
- Dinas, Carmarthenshire
- Dinas, Gwynedd
- Dinas railway station, Gwynedd
- Dinas Cross, Pembrokeshire
- Dinas Powys, Vale of Glamorgan
- Dinas Rhondda, Rhondda Cynon Taf
- Cornwall
- Dinas, Cornwall (disambiguation)
- Philippines
Meaning
- The word dinas (plural -oedd) in modern Welsh is a feminine noun meaning "city", but in Old and Middle Welsh it is a masculine noun meaning "fort or citadel", and this is the meaning in the above Welsh place-names.