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Answer for the clue "Afro-Asiatic language ", 5 letters:
bilin

Word definitions for bilin in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context biochemistry English) Any of various biological pigments formed in many organisms as a metabolic product of certain porphyrins.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bilin may refer to: Bilin, Mon State , a town in Mon State in Myanmar Bilin (biochemistry) , a type of biological pigment with a tetrapyrrole structure, for example found in bile Bil'in , a Palestinian village in the West Bank The Bilen people , an ethnic ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bilin \Bi"lin\, n. [Cf. F. biline, from L. bilis bile.] (Physiol. Chem.) A name applied to the amorphous or crystalline mass obtained from bile by the action of alcohol and ether. It is composed of a mixture of the sodium salts of the bile acids.

Usage examples of bilin.

I have torn up my first complaint and have written a second in Latin, which an advocate of Bilin has translated for me and which I have deposited at the office of the judiciary at Dux.

I thawt the Bar insisted on steerin strate for my dooryard in Baldinsville and that Betsy Jane cum out and giv us a warm recepshun with a panfull of Bilin water.

She retired, but cum out agin putty quick with a panfull of Bilin hot water which she throwed all over the Squire, & Surs, you wood have split your sides larfin to see the old man jump up and holler & run into the house.