Mashrabaمشربة

دينa single root to which all branches return, 'a kind of yielding and abasement'; dīn is … (root dyn)

الدال والياء والنون أصل واحد إليه يرجع فروعه كلها وهو جنس من الانقياد والذل

Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering

دين
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The words of د ي ن that our sources attest: the root's letters in green, the added letters in gold.

30 words8 verbs6 verbal nouns5 participles3 places and instruments1 intensive or elative3 other nouns3 plurals1 relative or abstract

  • دِين—
  • مَدِينowing; obligated
  • دَيْن—
  • مَدِينِين—
  • دَانَhe was, or became, obedient
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Verbs8دَانَ · تَدَايَنَ · ديّنَ

The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →

  • دَانَhe was, or became, obedientLaneForm IQurʾān ×1LaneIbn Fāris
  • تَدَايَنَthey sold and bought, one with another, upon creditLaneForm VIQurʾān ×1Lane
  • ديّنَhe left him to his religionLaneForm IILaneIbn Fāris
  • دَايَنَForm IIILane
Verbal nouns6دَيْن · دِين · تَدْيِين

The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →

Participles5مُدَان · مُدَّان · دَائِن

The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →

  • مُدَانpassive, Form IVLaneIbn Fāris
  • مُدَّانpassive, Form IILaneIbn Fāris
  • دَائِنdebtorLaneactive, Form ILane
  • مَدْيُونpassive, Form ILane
  • مُتَدَيِّنactive, Form VLane
Place, time and instrument3مَدِين · مَدِينَة · مِدْيَان

Where or when it happens, and what it is done with: the m- nouns.grammar →

  • مَدِينowing; obligatedautonoun of place or timelibrary ×22LaneIbn Fāris
  • مَدِينَةcityLanenoun of place (with -a)LaneIbn Fāris
  • مِدْيَانone who gives, or grants, loans, or the like, to men, much, or oftenLanenoun of instrumentLane
Intensives, qualities and the elative1دَيَّان

The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →

  • دَيَّانrequiter, who neglects not any deed, but requites it, with good and with evilLaneintensive (faʿʿāl)Lane
Other nouns3دَيِّن · دَيْنَة · دِينَة

Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →

  • دَيِّنreligiousLanenounLaneIbn Fāris
  • دَيْنَةnounLane
  • دِينَةnounLane
Plurals3دِين · مَدِينِين · مَدَايِين

Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →

  • دِينsound plural of دQurʾān ×92Ibn Fāris
  • مَدِينِينsound plural of مَدِينQurʾān ×2
  • مَدَايِينbroken plural of مِدْيَانLane
Relative and abstract1دِينِيّ

-iyy relates a thing to its source; -iyya makes an abstract noun.grammar →

  • دِينِيّreligiousautorelative adjective (-iyy)library ×2
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What each pattern does. The pattern gives a tendency, not a rule: many words have drifted into meanings of their own.

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مَفْعَلَةد ي نمَدْيَنَة
  • Attested: مَدِينَة, noun of place (with -a), “city” (Lane, Ibn Fāris)

Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary

But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.

The grammarians on this pattern (4)
  • ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة

    Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)'

    Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس

    and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule

    Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

  • “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
  • “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain

This root has a weak or doubled letter, so real words change shape (qāla → qāʾil, not qāwil); the machine pours the letters in as they are, and matches attested words by their regular pattern.

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  • al-Khalīl · 170You say, in exhortation (al-ighrāʾ): dūnaka (دونك) this thing, dūnaka that matter, meaning 'take it upon yourself' (ʿalayka).

    al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn. The first Arabic dictionary, arranged by permutations of the root letters.

    You say, in exhortation (al-ighrāʾ): dūnaka (دونك) this thing, dūnaka that matter, meaning 'take it upon yourself' (ʿalayka). And 'dūnaka Zayd (دونك زيد)' in rank, in nearness and in remoteness; and 'Zayd dūnaka (زيد دونك)' means 'he is better than you in social standing (ḥasab).' Likewise al-dūn (الدون) may function as a descriptive adjective (ṣifa) or as an attribute (naʿt) in this sense, and no verb is derived from it. You say: 'This is dūna (دون) that,' in the sense of bringing near (al-taqrīb) or of belittling (al-taḥqīr); in the sense of bringing-near it stands in the accusative (manṣūb), being a descriptive adjective, while in the sense of belittling it stands in the nominative (marfūʿ).

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    جمع الدين ديون، وكل شيء لم يكن حاضرا فهو دين. وأدنت فلانا أدينه أي أعطيته دينا. ورجل مديون: قد ركبه دين، ومدين أجود. ورجل دائن: عليه دين، وقد استدان وتدين وادان بمعنى واحد، قال: قالت أميمة ما لجسمك شاحبا ... وأراك ذا هم ولست بدائن «223» ورجل مدان، خفيفة، ورجل مدين أي مستدين. والدين جمعه الأديان. والدين: الجزاء لا يجمع لأنه مصدر، كقولك: دان الله العباد يدينهم يوم القيامة أي يجزيهم، وهو ديان العباد. والدين: الطاعة، ودانوا لفلان أي أطاعوه. وفي المثل: كما تدين تدان أي كما تأتي يؤتى إليك، قال النابغة: بهن أدين من يأتي أذاتي ... مداينة المداين فليدني «224» والدين: العادة لم اسمع منه فعلا إلا في بيت واحد، قال: يا دين قلبك من سلمى وقد دينا «225» أي قد عود قلبك، فمن كسر القلب فعلى الإضافة، ومن رفع فعلى الفعل، أي عود قلبك يا هذا ودين قلبك. والمدينة: الأمة، والمدين: العبد، قال الأخطل: ربت وربا في كرمها ابن مدينة ... يظل على مسحاته يتركل «226» وقوله تعالى: غير مدينين «227» أي غير محاسبين. وقوله تعالى: أإنا لمدينون «228» أي مملوكون بعد الممات، ويقال: لمجازون.

  • al-Jawharī · 393Dūn (دون): the opposite of fawq (فوق) [above];

    al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.

    Dūn (دون): the opposite of fawq (فوق) [above]; it denotes falling short of a limit, and it functions as an adverb (ẓarf). Al-dūn (الدون): the contemptible, base one. And he said: — "When a man rises high, he aspires to loftiness, and he who is dūn [base] is content with baseness (al-dūn)." No verb is derived from it, though some say from it: dāna yadūnu dūnan (دان يدون دونا), and adāna idānatan (أدان إدانة). And the verse of ʿAdī is transmitted as 'lam yudna' (لم يدن) [was not weakened]; others transmit it 'lam yudanna' (لم يدن) with doubled nūn, in the passive, from danā yadnī (دنى يدني), meaning 'he grew weak.' One says: 'This is dūna (دون) that,' meaning 'nearer to it.' And one says in exhortation regarding a thing: dūnakahu (دونكه) [take it]. Tamīm said to al-Ḥajjāj, when he had killed Ṣāliḥ ibn ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and crucified him: 'Let us bury Ṣāliḥ' — and he [al-Ḥajjāj] said: 'dūnakumūh (دونكموه)' [he is yours, take him]. Al-dīwān (الديوان) — its origin is diwān (دوان), one of the two wāws being replaced [by yāʾ], because it is pluralized as dawāwīn (دواوين); had the yāʾ been original they would have said diyāwīn (دياوين). And one says: 'the registers have been compiled' (dawwinat al-dawāwīn).

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    أبو عبيد: الدين: واحد الديون. تقول: دنت الرجل أقرضته، فهو مدين ومديون. ودان فلان يدين دينا: استقرض وصار عليه دين، فهو دائن. وأنشد الأحمر (1) : ندين ويقضي الله عنا وقد نرى مصارع قوم لا يدينون ضيعا (2) ورجل مديون: كثر ما عليه من الدين. وقال: مستأرب عضه السلطان مديون (3) * ومديان، إذا كان عادته أن يأخذ بالدين ويستقرض. وأدان فلان إدانة، إذا باع من القوم إلى أجل فصار له عليهم دين تقول منه: أدني عشرة دراهم. قال أبو ذؤيب: أدان وأنبأه الأولون بأن المدان ملئ وفي وادان: استقرض، وهو افتعل. وفي الحديث (4) : " ادان معرضا "، أي استدان، وهو الذي يعترض الناس فيستدين ممن أمكنه. وتداينوا: تبايعوا بالدين. واستدانوا: استقرضوا. وداينت فلانا، إذا عاملته فأعطيت دينا وأخذت بدين. وتداينا، كما تقول قاتلته وتقاتلنا. وبعته بدينة، أي بتأخير. والدين بالكسر: العادة والشأن. قال (1) : تقول إذا درأت لها وضيني أهذا دينه أبدا وديني (2) ودانه دينا، أي أذله واستعبده. يقال: دنته فدان. وفي الحديث: " الكيس من دان نفسه وعمل لما بعد الموت ". قال الاعشى: هو دان الرباب إذ كرهوا الدين دراكا بغزوة وارتحال ثم دانت بعد الرباب وكانت كعذاب عقوبة الاقوال قال: هو دان الرباب، يعنى أذلها وقهرها، ثم قال: دانت بعد الرباب، أي ذلت له وأطاعت. والدين: الجزاء والمكافأة. يقال: دانه دينا، أي جازاه. يقال: " كما تدين تدان "، أي كما تجازي تجازى، أي تجازى بفعلك وبحسب ما عملت. وقوله تعالى: (أءنا لمدينون) أي مجزيون محاسبون. ومنه الديان في صفة الله تعالى. وقوم دين، أي دائنون. وقال: وكان الناس إلا نحن دينا (1) * والمدين: العبد. والمدينة: الأمة، كأنهما أذلهما العمل. قال الأخطل: ربت وربا في كرمها ابن مدينة يظل على مسحاته يتركل قال أبو عبيدة: أي ابن أمة. الفراء: يقال: دينته: ملكته. وأنشد للحطيئة يهجو أمه: لقد دينت أمر بنيك حتى تركتهم أدق من الطحين يعني ملكت. ويروى: " سوست ". وناس يقولون: ومنه سمى المصر مدينة. والدين: الطاعة. ودان له، أي أطاعه، قال عمرو بن كلثوم وأيام لنا ولهم (1) طوال عصينا الملك فيها أن ندينا ومنه الدين، والجمع الأديان. يقال: دان بكذا ديانة وتدين به، فهو دين ومتدين. ودينت الرجل تديينا، إذا وكلته إلى دينه. وقول ذى الاصبع: لاه ابن عمك لا أفضلت في حسب عني ولا أنت دياني فتخزوني قال ابن السكيت: أي ولا أنت مالك أمري فتسوسنى.

  • Ibn Fāris · 395The letters dāl, yāʾ, and nūn (الدال والياء والنون) have one root meaning to which all its branches return, namely a kind of submission and abasement (dhill).

    Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).

    The letters dāl, yāʾ, and nūn (الدال والياء والنون) have one root meaning to which all its branches return, namely a kind of submission and abasement (dhill). Al-dīn (الدين) means obedience; one says dāna lahu yadīnu dīnan (دان له يدين دينا) when he accompanied [someone in obedience] and submitted and obeyed. A people described as dīn (دين) are 'obedient, submissive.' The poet said: — "And the people, save us, were submissive (dīnā)..." And al-madīna (المدينة) is as if it were [formed] on the pattern maf'ala, named thus because obedience to those in authority is established in it. Al-madīna (المدينة) [also means] a nation/community, and a slave is called madīn (مدين), as though labor had abased them both. And he said: — "She raised — and in her lap there grew — the son of a madīna (مدينة) ... who remains leaning upon his plow-stick..." As for the saying of the poet: — "O dīn (دين) of your heart on account of Salmā, for it has become submissive (dīnā)..." its meaning is: 'O you, the submission of your heart,' i.e., it has become abased. As for their calling habit (al-ʿāda) dīn (دين) — if this is correct, it is because when the soul becomes accustomed to a thing it goes along with it and submits to it. And they recite in this connection: — "Like your dīn (دينك) from Umm al-Ḥuwayrith before her ... and her neighbor Umm al-Rabāb at Masal..." though the [preferred] transmission is ka-daʾbika (كدأبك) ['like your habit'], the meaning being close. As for His exalted saying, 'He would not have taken his brother in the dīn (دين) of the king' (Yūsuf 12:76), it is said [to mean]: in his obedience; and it is said: in his judgment/law. From this is [also]: 'Master of the Day of Dīn (يوم الدين)' (al-Fātiḥa 1:4), i.e., the Day of Judgment. Some said [it means] reckoning and recompense; and whichever it is, it is a matter to which one submits. Abū Zayd said: dīna al-rajulu yudānu (دين الرجل يدان) [is said] when something he dislikes is imposed upon him. From this chapter also is al-dayn (الدين) [debt]; one says dāyantu fulānan (داينت فلانا) when you have dealt with him in debt, whether taking or giving. He said: — "I gave Arwā a debt — and debts are paid — she deferred some and paid some..." One says dintu and adantu (دنت وادنت) when you have taken on debt, and adantu (أدنت) [means] I lent and extended credit. He said: — "He incurred debt, and the ancients had told him that the debtor is trustworthy and faithful..." Al-dayn (الدين) follows the regular pattern of this chapter, for in it lies the whole of abasement and humility (al-dhull), and so they say: 'Debt is humiliation by day and grief by night.' As for the saying of the poet: — "O abode of Salmā, [now] empty — I burden nothing but al-Murāna with reaching it, until it comes to know the dīn (الدينا)..." al-Aṣmaʿī said: al-Murāna is the name of his she-camel, which knew that road; so he meant, 'I burden nothing but my she-camel al-Murāna with [reaching] it, until it comes to know the dīn,' i.e., the condition and matter it is familiar with — meaning: I impose the reaching of this abode on none but my she-camel. And God knows best.

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الدال والياء والنون أصل واحد إليه يرجع فروعه كلها وهو جنس من الانقياد والذل فالدين الطاعة يقال دان له يدين دينا إذا أصحب وانقاد وطاع وقوم دين أي مطيعون منقادون قال الشاعر : — وكان الناس إلا نحن دينا … والمدينة كأنها مفعلة سميت بذلك لأنها تقام فيها طاعة ذوي الأمر والمدينة الأمة والعبد مدين كأنهما أذلهما العمل وقال : — ربت وربا في حجرها ابن مدينة … يظل على مسحاته يتركل … فأما قول القائل : — يا دين قلبك من سلمى وقد دينا … فمعناه يا هذا دين قلبك أي أذل فأما قولهم إن العادة يقال لها دين فإن كان صحيحا فلأن النفس إذا اعتادت شيئا مرت معه وانقادت له وينشدون في هذا : — كدينك من أم الحويرث قبلها … وجارتها أم الرباب بمأسل … والرواية كدأبك والمعنى قريب فأما قوله جل ثناؤه ( ما كان ليأخذ أخاه في دين الملك يوسف76 ) فيقال : في طاعته ويقال في حكمه ومنه : ( مالك يوم الدين الفاتحة4 ) أي يوم الحكم وقال قوم الحساب والجزاء وأي ذلك كان فهو أمر ينقاد له وقال أبو زيد دين الرجل يدان إذا حمل عليه ما يكره ومن هذا الباب الدين يقال داينت فلانا إذا عاملته دينا إما أخذا وإما إعطاء قال : — داينت أروى والديون تقضى … فمطلت بعضا وأدت بعضا … ويقال دنت وادنت إذا أخذت بدين وأدنت أقرضت وأعطيت دينا قال : — أدان وأنبأه الأولون … بأن المدان ملي وفي … والدين من قياس الباب المطرد لأن فيه كل الذل والذل ولذلك يقولون الدين ذل بالنهار وغم بالليل فأما قول القائل : — يا دار سلمى خلاء لا أكلفها … إلا المرانة حتى تعرف الدينا … فإن الأصمعي قال المرانة اسم ناقته وكانت تعرف ذلك الطريق فلذلك قال لا أكلفها إلا المرانة حتى تعرف الدين أي الحال والأمر الذي تعهده فأراد لا أكلف بلوغ هذه الدار إلا ناقتي والله أعلم

  • al-Rāghib · 502One says of what falls short of/is inferior to a thing: dūn (دون).

    al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.

    One says of what falls short of/is inferior to a thing: dūn (دون). Some said it is a metathesized form (maqlūb) of al-danw (الدنو) [nearness]. Al-adwan (الأدون): the base, vile one. His saying, exalted is He: 'Take not as intimates those from dūnikum (دونكم)' (Āl ʿImrān 3:118), i.e., those who have not attained your rank, [whether] in your station of religion (al-diyāna) — or it is said: in kinship. And His saying: 'and He forgives what is dūna (دون) that' (al-Nisāʾ 4:48), i.e., what is less than that; it is [also] said: what is other than that — the two senses being interrelated. His saying, exalted is He: 'Did you say to the people, Take me and my mother as two gods min dūni Allāh (من دون الله)' (al-Māʾida 5:116), i.e., other than God; it is said [also that] its meaning is two gods as intermediaries by whom one reaches God. And His saying: 'They have no protector or intercessor min dūnihi (من دونه)' (al-Anʿām 6:51), and: 'You have no protector or helper min dūni Allāh (من دون الله),' i.e., they have none who takes them as ally apart from the command of God. And His saying: 'Shall we call, min dūni Allāh (من دون الله), upon that which neither profits nor harms us' (al-Anʿām 6:71), likewise. Exhortation may [also] be expressed with the word dūna (دون), one saying 'dūnaka (دونك) such-and-such,' meaning 'take it.' Al-Qutaybī said: one says dāna yadūnu dūnan (دان يدون دونا): 'he became weak.' [End of the Book of the letter Dāl]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    يقال: دنت الرجل: أخذت منه دينا، وأدنته: جعلته دائنا، وذلك بأن تعطيه دينا. قال (أبو عبيد) «1» : دنته: أقرضته، ورجل مدين، ومديون، ودنته: استقرضت منه «2» ، قال الشاعر:

  • Lisān · 711Dūn (دون): the opposite of fawq (فوق) [above];

    Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).

    Dūn (دون): the opposite of fawq (فوق) [above]; it denotes falling short of a limit, and it functions as an adverb (ẓarf). Al-dūn (الدون): the contemptible, base one; and he said: — "When a man rises high, he aspires to loftiness, ... and he who is dūn [base] is content with baseness (al-dūn)." No verb is derived from it. Some say from it: dāna yadūnu dūnan (دان يدون دونا) and adāna idānatan (أدان إدانة); and the verse of ʿAdī is transmitted in his saying: — "Anasala al-dhirʿānu ghurba jadhmin, ... wa-ʿalā al-rabrabu azman lam yudna." ["The wild-cow calves slipped away swiftly at the outset, ... and it outstripped the herd with a run that did not flag."] Others transmit it 'lam yudanna' (لم يدن), with doubled nūn, in the passive, from danā yadnī (دنى يدني), meaning 'he grew weak.' [As for] his saying 'anasala al-dhirʿān': dhirʿān (ذرعان) is the plural of dhiraʿ (ذرع), the calf of the wild cow; he means that the running of this horse, and its outpacing, occurred behind the wild-cow calves, behind them, while it had outrun the herd (al-rabrab) with a gallop in which there was no falling short. One says: 'This is dūna (دون) that,' meaning 'nearer to it.' Ibn Sīda [said]: dūna is a word carrying the sense of belittling (al-taḥqīr) and of bringing-near (al-taqrīb); it functions as an adverb (ẓarf), and so is put in the accusative, and it [also] functions as a noun (ism), so that the preposition (ḥarf al-jarr) may enter upon it, one saying: 'hādhā dūnaka (هذا دونك)' and 'hādhā min dūnika (هذا من دونك).' And in the Mighty Revelation: 'and he found, min dūnihim (من دونهم), two women' (al-Qaṣaṣ 28:23). Sībawayh cited [as evidence]: — "Lā yaḥmilu al-fārisa illā al-malbūnū, ... al-maḥḍu min amāmihi wa-min dūnī." ["None can bear the horseman but the well-fed one, ... the pure-bred, whether before him or beside/behind him."] He said: we said regarding this that he in fact meant 'min dūnihi (من دونه),' because of his saying 'min amāmihi (من أمامه),' thus making it a construct (aḍāfa); and likewise he intended the construct-addition of dūna. And he cited a similar case from al-Jaʿdī: — "Lahā farṭun yakūnu, wa-lā tarāhu, ... amāman min muʿarrasinā wa-dūnā." ["It has a vanguard that exists though you do not see it, ... whether ahead of our resting-place or behind it."] Al-Tahdhīb: One says: 'hādhā dūna dhālika (هذا دون ذلك)' in the sense of bringing-near and of belittling; in the sense of belittling it is nominative (marfūʿ), and in the sense of bringing-near it is accusative (manṣūb), being a descriptive adjective (ṣifa). And one says: 'dūnaka Zayd (دونك زيد)' in rank, in nearness, and in remoteness. Ibn Sīda [said]: As for what Ibn Jinnī cited from the saying of one of the later poets (al-muwalladīn): — "Wa-qāmat ilayhi khadlata al-sāqi, aʿlaqat ... bihi minhu masmūman duwaynata ḥājibihi." ["And there rose to him a full-legged woman, who fastened onto him a poisoned [dart], a little below (duwayna) his eyebrow."] He said: I do not know dūna being made feminine, whether with a feminine marker or without one, given that the grammarians have all said that the adverbs (al-ẓurūf) are all masculine except qudāma (قدام) and warāʾ (وراء)? He said: I do not know what this poet meant to diminutize, unless indeed they have said 'huwa duwaynahu (هو دوينه)' [he is a little below him], in which case his saying 'duwaynata ḥājibihi (دوينة حاجبه)' would be sound in its own right. Al-Akhfash introduced the letter bāʾ (ب) upon it, saying in his book on rhyme (al-Qawāfī), having mentioned a Bedouin who recited to him a defective (mukfaʾ) poem: 'So we recited it back to him, and to a group of his companions, among whom was one who was not bi-dūnihi (بدونه) [inferior to him]' — thus introducing the bāʾ as you see. And they have said 'min dūna (من دون)' meaning 'min dūnihi (من دونه)'; and they have said 'dūnaka (دونك)' regarding nobility and lineage and the like. Sībawayh said: this is by way of metaphor (al-mathal), just as they said 'innahu la-ṣulbu al-qanāti (إنه لصلب القناة)' ['he is firm of spear-shaft'] and 'innahu la-min shajaratin ṣāliḥatin (إنه لمن شجرة صالحة)' ['he is of good stock']. He said: it is not used in the nominative in the state of construct-annexation (al-iḍāfa). As for His saying, exalted is He: 'wa-annā minnā al-ṣāliḥūna wa-minnā (وأنا منا الصالحون ومنا)...' [entry continues]

    AI translation of the Arabic below

    الديان: من أسماء الله عز وجل، معناه الحكم القاضي. وسئل بعض السلف عن علي بن أبي طالب، عليه السلام، فقال: كان ديان هذه الأمة بعد نبيها أي قاضيها وحاكمها. والديان: القهار، ومنه قول ذي الإصبع العدواني لاه ابن عمك، لا أفضلت في حسب ... فينا، ولا أنت دياني فتخزوني! أي لست بقاهر لي فتسوس أمري. والديان: الله عز وجل. والديان: القهار، وقيل: الحاكم والقاضي، وهو فعال من دان الناس أي قهرهم على الطاعة. يقال: دنتهم فدانوا أي قهرتهم فأطاعوا، ومنه شعر الأعشى الحرمازي يخاطب سيدنا رسول الله، صلى الله عليه وسلم: يا سيد الناس وديان العرب وفي حديث أبي طالب: قال له، عليه السلام: أريد من قريش كلمة تدين لهم بها العرب أي تطيعهم وتخضع لهم. والدين: واحد الديون، معروف. وكل شيء غير حاضر دين، والجمع أدين مثل أعين وديون، قال ثعلبة بن عبيد يصف النخل: تضمن حاجات العيال وضيفهم، ... ومهما تضمن من ديونهم تقضي يعني بالديون ما ينال من جناها، وإن لم يكن دينا على النخل، كقول الأنصاري: أدين، وما ديني عليكم بمغرم، ... ولكن على الشم الجلاد القراوح ابن الأعرابي: دنت وأنا أدين إذا أخذت دينا، وأنشد أيضا قول الأنصاري: أدين وما ديني عليكم بمغرم قال ابن الأعرابي: القراوح من النخيل التي لا تبالي الزمان، وكذلك من الإبل، قال: وهي التي لا كرب لها من النخيل، ودنت الرجل: أقرضته فهو مدين ومديون. ابن سيده: دنت الرجل وأدنته أعطيته الدين إلى أجل، قال أبو ذؤيب: أدان، وأنبأه الأولون ... بأن المدان ملي وفي الأولون: الناس الأولون والمشيخة، وقيل: دنته أقرضته، وأدنته استقرضته منه. ودان هو: أخذ الدين. ورجل دائن ومدين ومديون، الأخيرة تميمية، ومدان: عليه الدين، وقيل: هو الذي عليه دين كثير. الجوهري: رجل مديون كثر ما عليه من الدين، وقال: وناهزوا البيع من ترعية رهق ... مستأرب، عضه السلطان، مديون ومديان إذا كان عادته أن يأخذ بالدين ويستقرض. وأدان فلان إدانة إذا باع من القوم إلى أجل فصار له عليهم دين، تقول منه: أدني عشرة دراهم، وأنشد بيت أبي ذؤيب: بأن المدان ملي وفي والمدين: الذي يبيع بدين. وادان واستدان وأدان: استقرض وأخذ بدين، وهو افتعل، ومنه قول عمر، رضي الله عنه: فادان معرضا أي استدان، وهو الذي يعترض الناس ويستدين ممن أمكنه. وتداينوا: تبايعوا بالدين. واستدانوا: استقرضوا. الليث: أدان الرجل، فهو مدين أي مستدين، قال أبو منصور: وهذا خطأ عندي، قال: وقد حكاه شمر لبعضهم وأظنه أخذه عنه. وأدان: معناه أنه باع بدين أو صار له على الناس دين. وفي حديث عمر، رضي الله عنه: إن فلانا يدين ولا مال له. يقال: دان واستدان وادان، مشددا، إذا أخذ الدين واقترض، فإذا أعطى الدين قيل أدان مخففا. وفي حديثه الآخر عن أسيفع جهينة: فادان معرضا أي استدان معرضا عن الوفاء. واستدانه: طلب منه الدين. واستدانه: استقرض منه، قال الشاعر: فإن يك، يا جناح، علي دين، ... فعمران بن موسى يستدين ودنته: أعطيته الدين. ودنته: استقرضت منه. ودان فلان يدين دينا: استقرض وصار عليه دين فهو دائن، وأنشد الأحمر للعجير السلولي: ندين ويقضي الله عنا، وقد نرى ... مصارع قوم، لا يدينون، ضيعا قال ابن بري: صوابه ضيع، بالخفض على الصفة لقوم، وقبله: فعد صاحب اللحام سيفا تبيعه، ... وزد درهما فوق المغالين واخنع وتداين القوم واداينوا: أخذوا بالدين، والاسم الدينة. قال أبو زيد: جئت أطلب الدينة، قال: هو اسم الدين. وما أكثر دينته أي دينه. الشيباني: أدان الرجل إذا صار له دين على الناس. ابن سيده: وأدان فلان الناس أعطاهم الدين وأقرضهم، وبه فسر به بعضهم قول أبي ذؤيب: أدان، وأنبأه الأولون ... بأن المدان ملي وفي وقال شمر في قولهم يدين الرجل أمره: أي يملك، وأنشد بيت أبي ذؤيب أيضا. وأدنت الرجل إذا أقرضته. وقد ادان إذا صار عليه دين. والقرض: أن يقترض الإنسان دراهم أو دنانير أو حبا أو تمرا أو زبيبا أو ما أشبه ذلك، ولا يجوز لأجل لأن الأجل فيه باطل. وقال شمر: ادان الرجل إذا كثر عليه الدين، وأنشد: أندان أم نعتان، أم ينبري لنا ... فتى مثل نصل السيف هزت مضاربه نعتان أي نأخذ العينة. ورجل مديان: يقرض الناس، وكذلك الأنثى بغير هاء، وجمعهما جميعا مدايين. ابن بري: وحكى ابن خالويه أن بعض أهل اللغة يجعل المديان الذي يقرض الناس، والفعل منه أدان بمعنى أقرض، قال: وهذا غريب. وداينت فلانا إذا أقرضته وأقرضك، قال رؤبة: داينت أروى، والديون تقضى، ... فماطلت بعضا وأدت بعضا وداينت فلانا إذا عاملته فأعطيت دينا وأخذت بدين، وتداينا كما تقول قاتله وتقاتلنا. وبعته بدينة أي بتأخير، والدينة جمعها دين، قال رداء بن منظور: فإن تمس قد عال عن شأنها ... شؤون، فقد طال منها الدين أي دين على دين. والمدان: الذي لا يزال عليه دين، قال: والمديان إن شئت جعلته الذي يقرض كثيرا، وإن شئت جعلته الذي يستقرض كثيرا. وفي الحديث: ثلاثة حق عل …

  • Lane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.

    دَانَ

    1. دَانَ, (IAar, S, K, TA,) aor. يَدِينُ, (IAar, M, K, TA,) [inf. n. دِينٌ, (which see below,) in this and most of the other senses, or the inf. n. is دَيْنٌ, and دِينٌ is a simple subst.,] He was, or became, obedient; he obeyed: (IAar, S, M, K, TA:) this is the primary signification: or, as some say, the primary signification is the following; namely, he was, or became, abased and submissive: (IAar, * K, * TA:) or he was, or became, abased and enslaved and obedient. (S.) You say, دَانَ لَهُ, (S,) and دِنْتُ لَهُ and دِنْتُهُ, (M, TA,) He, and I, was, or became, obedient to him [&c.], or obeyed him [&c.]. (S, M, TA.) And دِنْتُهُ, (M, K,) aor. أَدِينُهُ, (K,) I served him, did service for him, or ministered to him, and acted well to him. (M, K.) [Hence,] He became [a servant of God, or] a Muslim. (TK.) You say, دَانَ بِٱلْإِسْلَامِ, inf. n. دِينٌ, with kesr, [and دِيَانَةٌ,] He became, or made himself, a servant of God by [following the religion of] El-Islám; [i. e. he followed El-Islám as his religion;] and so تديّن. (Msb.) And دَانَ بِكَذا, (S,) and دِنْتُ بِهِ, (M, K,) inf. n. دِيَانَةٌ [and دِينٌ]; and به تديّن, [and تديّنتُ به; He, and I, followed such a thing as his, and my, religion;] (S, TA;) from دِينٌ as signifying “ obedience. ” (S.) And دان بِدِينِهِمْ He followed them in their religion; agreed with them, or was of one mind or opinion with them, upon, or respecting, their religion; took, or adopted, their religion as his. (TA.) And the trad. of 'Alee, مَحَبَّةُ العُلَمَآءُ دِينٌ يُدَانُ ٱللّٰهُ بِهِ [The love of the learned is a kind of religion with which God is served]. (TA.) In the phrase وَ لَا يَدِينُونَ دِينَ الحَقِّ [Nor follow the religion of the truth, or the true religion], in the Kur ix. 29, El-Islám is meant. (Jel.) Also He was, or became, disobedient; he disobeyed: and he was, or became, mighty, potent, powerful, or strong; or high, or elevated, in rank, condition, or state; noble, honourable, glorious, or illustrious. (IAar, T, K.) Thus it bears significations contr. to those mentioned in the first part of this paragraph. (MF.) Also, (S, M, Msb, K,) first pers. دِنْتُ, (T, M8gh,) aor. as above, (T, S, Msb,) inf. n. دَيْنٌ, (S, Msb,) from المُدَايَنَةُ, (Msb, [see 3,]) i. q. أَخَذَ الدَّيْنَ, (IKt, M, Msb, K,) or [rather] أَخَذَ دَيْنًا, (T,) [He took, or received, a loan, or the like; he borrowed: or he took, or received, or bought, upon credit; which is the meaning generally obtaining: and اِدَّانَ and أَدَانَ and استدان and تديّن signify [in like manner] أَخَذَ دَيْنًا: (K:) or the first, i. e. دان, signifies he sought, or demanded, a loan, or the like; (ISk, S, Mgh, Msb;) as also ادّان and استدان: (S, Mgh:) and he became indebted, in debt, or under the obligation of a debt: (S:) and ادّان and أَدَانَ and استدان signify أَخَذَ بِدَيْنٍ [he took, or received, by incurring a debt; i. e. he took, or received, or bought, upon credit; like أَخَذَ دَيْنًا]; (M;) or the first and last of these three signify أَخَذَ الدَّيْنَ, and اِقْتَرَضَ [which means the same]: but أَدَانَ signifies he gave, or granted, what is termed دَيْنٌ [meaning a loan, or the like: or he gave, or granted, or sold, a thing upon credit]: (TA:) accord. to Esh-Sheybánee, this last verb signifies he became entitled to a debt from others [or from another]: Lth says that it (أَدَانَ) signifies he was, or became, such as is termed مُسْتَدِينٌ; [i. e. it is syn. with استدان, as it is said to be in the M and K;] but [Az says,] this, which has been mentioned on the authority of some one or more by Sh, is in my opinion a mistake; أَدَانَ means he sold upon credit; or became entitled to a debt from others [or from another]; (T, TA;) or he sold to persons upon a limited credit, or for payment at an appointed period, so that he became entitled to a debt from them: (S:) and accord. to Sh, ادّان signifies he became much in debt. (T, TA.) El-Ahmar cites the following verse of El-'Ojeyr Es-Saloolee: [We incur debt, and God pays for us; and sometimes, or often, we see the places of overthrow of a people, who incur not debt, in a state of perdition]: in the S [and the T] ضُيَّعَا; but correctly as above; for the whole of the قَصِيدَة is مَخْفُوضَة. (IB, TA.) And it is said in a trad., مُعْرِضًا اِدَّانَ, (S, K,) or, as some relate it, دَانَ, (K,) He bought upon credit, or borrowed, or sought or demanded a loan, of whomsoever he could, addressing himself to such as came in his way: (S, TA:) or both mean he bought upon credit avoiding payment: or he contracted a debt with every one who presented himself to him: (K, TA: [see also other explanations voce مُعْرِضٌ:]) ادّان signifies he bought upon credit: (K:) or [thus and also] the contr., i. e. he sold upon credit. (T, K.) It is also trans.; and so is أَدَانَ. (Msb.) You say, دِنْتُهُ, (M, Mgh, K, [in the CK دِينَةٌ is here put for دِنْتُهُ,]) inf. n. دَيْنٌ; (TA;) and أَدَنْتُهُ (M, Mgh, K,) inf. n. إِدَانَةٌ; (TA;) I gave him, or granted him, to a certain period, what is termed دَيْنٌ [meaning the loan, or the like; I lent to him: or I gave him, or granted him, credit; or sold to him, upon credit]: (M, K, TA:) so that he owed a debt: (TA:) and i. q. أَقْرَضْتُهُ [I gave him, or granted him, a loan, or the like]; (M, * Mgh, K;) as also دَيَّنْتُهُ: (Mgh:) or دِنْتُهُ has this last meaning: (A 'Obeyd, S, M:) and أَدَنْتُهُ signifies I sought, or demanded, of him a loan, or the like; syn. اِسْتَقْرَضْتُ مِنْهُ; as also اِسْتَدَنْتُهُ: (M:) or دِنْتُهُ has each of the last two meanings: (A 'Obeyd, T, Msb:) and signifies also I received from him a loan, or the like. (K.) And one says, أَدِنِّى عَشَرَةَ دَرَاهِمَ meaning Lend thou to me ten dirhems. (S, TA.) دانهُ, (S,) first pers. دِنْتُهُ, (M, Msb, K,) inf. n. دِينٌ (S, M, K) and دَيْنٌ, (M, K,) or the latter is the inf. n. and the former is a simple subst., (M,) also signifies He repaid, requited, compensated, or recompensed, him, (S, M, Msb, K,) بِفِعْلِهِ for his deed: and so داينهُ, inf. n. مُدَايَنَةٌ and دِيَانٌ. (M.) And دِنَّاهُمْ We did to them like as they did to us. (Ham p. 10.) One says, كَمَا تَدِينُ تُدَانُ, (T, S, M,) a prov., (M,) meaning Like as thou repayest, or requitest, &c., thou shalt be repaid, or requited, &c.; (S, M;) i. e. according to thy deed thou shalt be repaid, or requited, &c.: (S:) or, as some say, like as thou doest, it shall be done to thee: (M:) or like as thou doest thou shalt be given, and repaid, &c. (T.) And it is said in a trad., اَللّٰهُمَّ دِنْهُمْ كَمَا يَدِينُونَنَا, meaning O God, repay them, or requite them, &c., with [the like of] that which they do to us. (TA.) اَللّٰهُ لَيَدِينُ مِنَ الجَمَّّآءِ لِلْقَرْنَآءِ, a trad. of Selmán, means God will assuredly retaliate [for her that is hornless upon her that is horned]. (TA.) And one says, مَنْ دَانَ نَفْسَهُ رَبِحَ, i. e. He who reckons with himself [gains] (Ham p. 10. [Or the verb may here have the meaning next following.]) Also, دانهُ, He abased him, (T, S, K,) and enslaved him. (T, S.) Hence, (T,) it is said in a trad., الكَيِّسُ مَنْ دَانَ نَفْسَهُ وَعَمِلَ لِمَا بَعْدَ المَوْتِ, (S, T,) i. e. [The intelligent is] he who abases, and enslaves, himself [and works for that which shall be after death]: or, as some say, who reckons with himself: (T:) or, accord. to some, who overcomes himself. (TA.) And دانهُ, (K,) first pers. دِنْتُهُ, (T,) signifies He made him to do that which he disliked. (AZ, T, K.) And دِينَ He was made to do that which he disliked. (T.) And دِنْتُهُ, inf. n. دِينٌ, I ruled, governed, or managed, him, or it. (M, TA.) And I possessed it; owned it; or exercised, or had, authority over it. (Sh, S, K, TA.) دان, (IAar, T, K,) aor. يَدِينٌ, (K,) [inf. n., app., دِينٌ, which see below,] signifies also He became accustomed or habituated, or he accustomed or habituated himself, to good or to evil: (IAar, T, K:) and, accord. to Lth, (T,) دِينَ signifies he was accustomed or habituated: (T, M:) or, as some say, دِينٌ signifying “ custom, ” or “ habit, ” has no verb. (M.) And He (a man, IAar, T) was, or became, smitten, or affected, by a disease. (IAar, T, K.)

    ديّنهُ

    2. ديّنهُ, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) inf. n. تَدْيِينٌ, (S, K,) He left him to his religion; (S, Mgh, Msb, K;) left him and his religion, not opposing him in that which he held allowable in his belief. (Msb.) He believed him: so in the saying, ديّنهُ فِى القَضَآءِ [He believed him in respect of the judgment, or judicial decision], (T, M, Mgh, *) and فِيمَا بَيْنَهُ وَبَيْنَ ٱللّٰهَ [in respect of what was between him and God]: (T, M:) but this is a conventional signification used by the professors. (Mgh.) دَيَّنْتُ الحَالِفَ (T, TA) I confirmed the swearer (قَوَّيْتُهُ [so in the TA, but in the T بَرَّيْتُهُ, app. for بَرَّأْتُهُ, I held him, or pronounced him, to be clear, or quit, if not a mistranscription for قَوَّيْتُهُ,]) in that which he swore. (T, TA.) See also 1, in the latter half of the paragraph. دَيَّنْتُهُ القَوْمَ I made him ruler, governor, or manager of the affairs, of the people, or company of men. (M.) And ديّنهُ الشَّىْءَ, (T, * TA,) inf. n. as above, (TA,) He made him to possess the thing: to own it; or to exercise, or have, authority over it. (T, * TA.) El-Hotei-ah says, (T, S, M,) addressing his mother, (T,) (T, S, M,) meaning مُلِّكْتِ [i. e. Verily thou hast been made to have the ordering of the affairs of thy sons until thou hast rendered them finer than flour]. (T, S.) And hence the saying, يُدَيَّنُ الرَّجُلُ أَمْرَهُ i. e. يُمَلَّكُ [The man shall be made to have the ordering of his affair, or affairs, or case]. (Sh, T.)

    دَايَنْتُهُ

    3. دَايَنْتُهُ, (S, M, A, K,) inf. n. مُدَايَنَةٌ and دِيَانٌ, (TA,) I dealt, or bought and sold, with him upon credit; (A, TA;) I dealt, or sold and bought, with him, giving upon credit and taking upon credit: (S, TA:) or I lent to him; or I gave him, or granted him, a loan, or the like; and he did so to me: (M, K:) or I dealt with him upon credit, giving or taking. (Ksh * and Bd in ii. 282.) See also 1, in the latter half of the paragraph. Each of the inf. ns. mentioned above is also syn. with مُحَاكَمَةٌ [The summoning another to the judge, and litigating with him: &c.]. (TA.)

    ادان

    4. ادان, inf. n. إِدَانَةٌ; as an intrans. v.: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph, in three places. As a trans. v.: see 1, in the latter half of the paragraph, in four places. [The following significations, namely, “ Subegit, ” and “ Pensavit, ” assigned to this verb by Golius as on the authority of the KL, and “ Voluit sibi esse servum, ” and “ Servum cepit, ” followed by an accus., assigned to it by him as on the authority of the S, I do not find in either of those works.]

    تديّن

    5. تديّن: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph, in three places.

    تَدَايَنُوا

    6. تَدَايَنُوا They sold and bought, one with another, upon credit; and in like manner تَدَايَنَا is said of two persons: (S:) or they took, or received, or bought, upon credit [app. one of another]: and so اِدَّايَنُوا [which is a variation of the former]. (M.) إِذَا تَدَيَنْتُمْ بِدَيْنٍ, in the Kur ii. 282, means When ye deal, one with another, (Ksh, Bd, Jel, Msb,) upon credit, giving or taking, (Ksh, * Bd,) or by prepayment, (Jel, Msb,) or lending or the like, (Jel,) &c. (Msb.)

    اِدَّانَ

    8. اِدَّانَ, originally اِدْتَانَ: see 1, in six places.

    استدان

    10. استدان, as an intrans. v.: see 1, in the former half of the paragraph, in three places. استدانهُ He sought, or demanded, of him what is termed دَيْنٌ [meaning a debt]: and also i. q. اِسْتَقْرَضَ مِنْهُ. (M.) See 1, in the latter half of the paragraph.

    دَيْنٌ

    دَيْنٌ [is an inf. n. of 1: and is also a simple subst., and] properly signifies [A debt; such as] the price of a thing sold [which the purchaser is under an obligation to pay]; and a dowry [which one engages to pay]: and a loan, or the like; syn. قَرْض: (Msb:) or it is [a debt] such as has an appointed time of falling due: what has not such an appointed time is [properly, but not always,] termed قَرْضٌ: (K:) and دِينَةٌ signifies the same as دَيْنٌ (T, M, K) in the sense above explained: (K:) a valid دَينْ (دَينٌ صَحِيحٌ) is such as does not become annulled save by payment, or by one's being declared clear, or quit: compensation in the case of a contract which a slave makes with his owner to pay him a certain sum as the price of himself and on the payment thereof to be free is not a valid دَيْن, because it may become annulled without payment, and without his being declared clear, or quit; that is, by the slave's being unable to pay it: (KT:) in the language of the law, but not in the proper language, دَيْنٌ is also applied to (assumed tropical:) [a debt incurred by] a thing taken unjustly, injuriously, or by violence; as being likened to a دَيْن properly so called: (Msb:) and it signifies also anything that is not present: [app. meaning anything to be paid, or done, at a future time:] (M, K:) the pl. [of pauc.] is أَدْيُنٌ (Lh, M, K) and [of mult.] دُيُونٌ (S, M, K) [and in the CK is added and دِينَةٌ, with kesr; but this is a mistranscription for دِنْتُهُ, as syn. with أَدَنْتُهُ, which follows it, connected therewith by وَ]: the pl. of دِينَةٌ is دِيَنٌ. (TA.) You say, مَا أَكْثرَ دَيْنَهُ and دِينَتَهُ [How great in amount. is his debt!]; both meaning the same. (AZ, T.) And جِئْتُ لِطَلَبِ الدِّينَةِ i. e. الدَّيْنِ [I came for the demanding of the debt]. (AZ, T.) And عَلَيْهِ دَيْنٌ [On him lies a debt; i. e. he owes a debt]: and لَهُ دَيْنٌ [To him is due a debt; i. e. he has a debt owed to him]. (S, TA.) And اِشْتَرَى بِالدَّيْنِ [He bought upon credit]: (K:) and أَخَذَ الدَّيْنَ (IKt, M, Msb, K) or [rather] أَخَذَ دَيْنًا [signifies the same; or he took, or received, upon credit: or he took, or received, a loan, or the like; he borrowed]: (T, K:) and أَخَذَ بِدَيْنٍ [likewise signifies the same; or he took, or received, by incurring a debt]. (M.) And بَاعَ بِالدَّيْنِ [He sold upon credit]: (K:) and بِعْثُهُ بِدَيْنٍ (TA) or بِدِينَةٍ (S) [I sold to him upon credit]: and أَعْطَيْتُهُ الدَّيْنَ [signifies the same; or I gave him, or granted him, credit: or I gave him, or granted him, the loan, or the like]. (M, K, TA.) [Hence,] (tropical:) Death; (K, TA;) because it is a دَيْن [or debt] which every one must pay when [the angel who is] the demander of its payment comes. (TA.) And hence the prov., رَمَاهُ ٱللّٰهُ بِدَيْنِهِ (tropical:) [May God smite him with his death]. (TA.) Thaalebeh Ibn-'Obeyd says, describing palm-trees, [They comprise the wants of the household and of their guest; and whatever they comprise of their debts, they pay]; by the دُيُون meaning what is obtained of their fruit that is gathered. (M, TA.)

    دِينٌ

    دِينٌ [is an inf. n. of 1: and is also used as a simple subst., signifying] Obedience; (T, S, M, K;) as also دِينَةٌ: (K: [in the M it is said, without any restriction, that دِينَةٌ is like دِينٌ:]) this is its primary meaning: and its pl. is أَدْيَانٌ: or, as some say, its primary meaning is that next following: (TA:) a state of abasement, (M, K, TA,) and submissiveness. (TA.) الدِّينُ لِلّٰهِ means Obedience to, and the service of, God. (T, K. *) And the saying, in the Kur [iv. 124], وَ مَنْ أَحْسَنُ دِينًا مِمَنْ أَسْلَمَ وَجْهَهُ لِلّٰهِ means [And who is better] in obedience [than he who resigns himself to God?] (Er-Rághib, TA.) In like manner, also, in the same [ii. 257], لَا إِكْرَاهَ فِى الدِّينِ means [There shall be no compulsion] in obedience. (Er-Rághib, TA.) A religion: (K, and in one of my copies of the S:) pl. as above: (S:) so termed as implying obedience, and submission to the law: [for ex.,] it is said in the Kur [iii. 17], إِنَّ الدِّينَ عِنْدَ ٱللّٰهِ ٱلْإِسْلَامُ [Verily the only true religion in the sight of God is El-Islám]. (TA.) الدِّينُ is a name for That whereby one serves God. (S, * K.) [It is applied to Religion, in the widest sense of this term, practical and doctrinal: thus comprehending الإِيمَانُ, which means “ religious belief. ”] And it [particularly] signifies [The religion of] El-Islám. (M, K.) And The religious law of God; consisting of such ordinances as those of fasting and prayer and pilgrimage and the giving of the poor-rate, and the other acts of piety, or of obedience to God, or of duty to Him and to men; syn. الشَّرِيعَةُ. (TA.) And The belief in the unity of God. (K.) And Piety, or pious fear, and abstinence from unlawful things; syn. الوَرَعُ. (S, K.) Also A particular law; a statute; or an ordinance; syn. حُكْمٌ (K, and Jel in xii. 76) and قَضَآءٌ [which signifies the same as حُكْمٌ]. (Katádeh, T, K.) It is said in the Kur [xii. 76], مَا كَانَ لِيَأْخُذَ أَخَاهُ فِى دِينِ ٱلْمَلِكِ, meaning He (Joseph) was not to take his brother as a slave for the theft according to the law of the king of Egypt; i. e., فِى حُكْمِ مَلِكِ مِصْرَ, (Jel,) or فىقَضَائِهِ; (Katádeh, T;) for his punishment according to him was beating, and a fine of twice the value of the thing stolen; not enslavement: (Jel:) or, accord. to ElUmawee, the meaning is, in the dominion of the King. (T.) [A system of usages, or rites and ceremonies &c., inherited from a series of ancestors.] It is said in a trad., of the Prophet, كَانَ عَلَى دِينِ قَوْمِهِ, meaning He used to conform with the old usages obtaining among his people, inherited from Abraham and Ishmael, in respect of their pilgrimage and their marriagecustoms (IAth, K, TA) and their inheritances (IAth, TA) and their modes of buying and selling and their ways of acting, (IAth, K, TA,) and other ordinances of the faith [&c.]; (IAth, TA;) but as to the belief in the unity of God, they had altered it; and the Prophet held no other belief than it: (IAth, K, TA:) or, as some say, the meaning here is, their dispositions, in respect of generosity and courage; from دِينٌ in the sense next following. (TA.) Custom, or habit; (AZ, T, S, M, K;) as also دِينَةٌ: (M, * TA:) and business: (S, TA:) pl., as above, أَدْيَانٌ. (M, TA.) This, also, has been said to be the primary signification. (TA.) One says, مَا زَالَ ذٰلِكَ دِينِى That has not ceased to be my custom, or habit. (T, TA.) A way, course, mode, or manner, of acting, or conduct, or the like. (K.) I. q. تَدْبِيرٌ [app. as meaning Management, conduct, or regulation, of affairs]. (K.) State, condition, or case. (S, M, K.) ISh says, I asked an Arab of the desert respecting a thing, and he said to me, لَوْ لَقِيتَنِى عَلَى دِنٍ غَيْرِ هٰذِهِ لَأَخْبَرْتُكَ [Hadst thou found me in a state other than this, I had informed thee]. (S, M.) A property, such as is an unknown cause of a known effect; syn. خَاصِّيَّةٌ. (KL. [The significations of “ Via ” and “ Signum ” and “ Opera, ” mentioned by Golius as from the KL, I do not find in my copy of that work.]) Disobedience. (S, K.) [Thus it bears a signification the contr. of that first mentioned in this paragraph.] Repayment, requital, compensation, or recompense: (S, M, K:) or, as some say, such as is proportioned to the deed of him who is its object. (TA.) Hence, مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ, i. e. [The King] of the day of requital, in the Kur [i. 3]: (M, T, TA:) or the meaning in this instance is the next but one of those here following. (T, TA.) Retaliation, by slaying for slaying, or wounding for wounding, or mutilating for mutilating. (TA.) A reckoning. (T, S, M, K.) [See the sentence next but one above.] Hence, in the Kur [ix. 36], ذٰلِكَ الدِّينُ القَيِّمُ [is said to mean] That is the right, correct, or true, reckoning. (T, TA.) Compulsion against the will: (K:) subdual, subjection, or subjugation; ascendency: sovereign, or ruling, power; or power of dominion: (S, K:) mastership, or ownership; or the exercise, or possession, of authority. (K, TA.) A disease: (Lh, IAar, T, S, M, K:) or, accord. to El-Mufaddal, an old disease. (IAar, T.) [It is said to signify also] A constant, or a gentle, rain; as also دِينَةٌ: (K:) accord. to the book of Lth, [by which is meant the 'Eyn,] (T,) rain that has been constantly, (T,) or usually, (K,) recurring in a place: (T, K:) but this is a mistake of Lth, or of some one who has added it in his book: a verse of Et- Tirimmáh, there cited as an ex., ends with وَدِينِ, which is in that instance syn. with مَوْدُون, meaning “ moistened; ” its و being the primal radical, not the conjunction وَ; and دِينٌ as meaning any kind of rain being unknown. (T, TA.) See also دَائِنٌ.

    دَيْنَةٌ

    دَيْنَةٌ, (so in the TT, as from the T,) or دِينَةٌ, with kesr, (so in the TA,) A cause of death. (T, TA.)

    دِينَةٌ

    دِينَةٌ: see دَيْنٌ, in five places: and دِينٌ, in three places: and دَيْنَةٌ.

    Lane, Arabic-English Lexiconread Lane's entry online ↗

The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.

د ي ن

الدال والياء والنون أصل واحد إليه يرجع فروعه كلها وهو جنس من الانقياد والذل فالدين الطاعة

d-y-n is one root to which all its branches return, and it is a kind of submission and abasement; so al-dīn is obedience.

Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗al-Khalīl: used ↗Quran ×101

an entry in Ibn Fārislater sources onlyin none of them

Do these six share one core meaning?

About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary

al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).

A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).

Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).

Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.

Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.

The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).

The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.

Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:

Ibn Fāris, entries found (1,021 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6319
  2. 2 of 6218
  3. 3 of 6164
  4. 4 of 6155
  5. 5 of 6107
  6. 6 of 658
al-Khalīl, orders his headings call used (746 letter-sets)
  1. 1 of 6148
  2. 2 of 6108
  3. 3 of 6157
  4. 4 of 6179
  5. 5 of 6111
  6. 6 of 643

Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.

Our computation from the OpenITI texts; heading detection can miss entries

Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.

How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.

How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

ومما بين طرف اللسان وأصول الثنايا مخرج الطاء، والدال، والتاء

From between the tip of the tongue and the roots of the front teeth is the place of the ṭāʾ, the dāl and the tāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26559 ↗

ومما بين طرف اللسان وأصول الثنايا، مخرج الطاء والدال والتاء

From between the tip of the tongue and the roots of the front teeth is the place of the ṭāʾ, the dāl and the tāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 982 ↗

ي

ومن وسط اللسان بينه وبين وسط الحنك الأعلى مخرج الجيم والشين والياء

From the middle of the tongue, between it and the middle of the upper palate, is the place of the jīm, the shīn and the yāʾ. Sībawayh, line 26553 ↗

ومن وسط اللسان بينه وبين وسط الحنك الأعلى، مخرج الجيم والشين والياء

From the middle of the tongue, between it and the middle of the upper palate, is the place of the jīm, the shīn and the yāʾ. Ibn Jinnī, line 974 ↗

ن

ومن حافة اللسان من أدناها إلى منتهى طرف اللسان ما بينها وبين ما يليها من الحنك الأعلى وما فويق الثنايا مخرج النون

From the edge of the tongue, from its nearest part to the end of its tip, between it and the upper palate next to it and what is just above the front teeth, is the place of the nūn. Sībawayh, lines 26555–26556 ↗

ومن طرف اللسان بينه وبين ما فويق الثنايا، مخرج النون

From the tip of the tongue, between it and what is just above the front teeth, is the place of the nūn. Ibn Jinnī, line 979 ↗

Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.

In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

Level of existence: السماء الدنيا · the lowest heaven (al-samāʾ al-dunyā)

Divine Name: المبين · the Clarifier (al-Mubīn)

Lunar mansion: الأكليل · al-Iklīl

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64682

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ي

Level of existence: السماء الأولى · The First Heaven

Divine Name: الرب · The Lord (al-Rabb)

Lunar mansion: الخرتان · al-Kharatān

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64500

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗

المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582

ن

Level of existence: السماء الرابعة · the fourth heaven

Divine Name: النور · the Light (al-Nūr)

Lunar mansion: السماك · al-Simāk

Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64663

Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 8 line 2571 ↗

الثمانية فحروفها حارة يابسة

The eightfold [rank]: its letters are hot and dry.

Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2580
Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac

English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic

د

فهي إشارة إلى خارج عن الذات.

It is an indication of something external to the self.

فهي إشارة إلى ما هو قليل أو قبيح ومعه غضب فيهما.

It is an indication of what is small or ugly, accompanied by anger in both cases.

فهي إشارة إلى ما في الذات أو إلى ما هو داخل عليها أو إلى ما هو قريب منها.

It is an indication of what is in the self, or what is entering upon it, or what is near to it.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ي

فهي للنداء، وقد يؤكد بها.

It is for the vocative (calling), and it may be used for emphasis.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي لا يثبت كالبرق ونحوه.

It is an indication of the thing that does not remain fixed, like lightning and the like.

فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي يستحيا به أو يستحيا منه كالعورة.

It is an indication of the thing that causes shame, or of which one is ashamed, like the private parts.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī

ن

فهي الخير الساكن في الذات الشاعل فيها.

It is the good that dwells in the self, kindling [al-shāʿil, as written] within it.

فهي إشارة إلى الخير الكامل أو النور الساطع.

It is an indication of perfect good or radiant light.

فهي إشارة إلى شيء يدركه المتكلم أو هو له.

It is an indication of something that the speaker perceives or that belongs to him.

al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-Lamaṭī
Two-letter nucleus6 roots in Ibn Fāris’s chapterد ي

Ibn Fāris groups his roots under two-letter chapters (“the X and the Y and what makes them three”). These are the roots of this root's chapter with the core sense he gives each. Setting them side by side is our juxtaposition; he does not himself draw a shared meaning. His chapter heading, line 10394 ↗

  • ديثالدال والياء والثاء يدل على التذليلL10395
  • ديصالدال والياء والصاد أصل واحد يدل على روغان وتفلتL10396
  • ديرالدال والياء والراء أظنه منقلبا عن الواو من الدار والدور ومن الباب الدير وما بها ديور وديار أي أحد ومن الباب الذي ذكرناهL10400
  • ديفالدال والياء والفاء ليس بشيء يقولون الديافي منسوب إلى أرض بالجزيرةL10403
  • ديكالدال والياء والكاف ليس أصلا يتفرع منه إنما هو الديك ويقولون هو عظيم ناتئ في جبهة الفرس وليس هذا بشيءL10408
  • دينالدال والياء والنون أصل واحد إليه يرجع فروعه كلها وهو جنس من الانقياد والذل فالدين الطاعةQ 101 · L10410
In the sister scriptsHebrew ד י נSyriac ܕ ܝ ܢ
Arabicد ي ن
Hebrewד י נ
Syriacܕ ܝ ܢ
Ancient South Arabian (musnad)𐩵 𐩺 𐩬
Phoenician𐤃 𐤉 𐤍

Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.

  • Classical lexiconThe excerpts supplied for al-Khalīl, al-Jawharī, al-Rāghib and Ibn Manẓūr belong to the neighbouring root d-w-n (dūn, 'below, short of').plausible

    The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.

    The excerpts supplied for al-Khalīl, al-Jawharī, al-Rāghib and Ibn Manẓūr belong to the neighbouring root d-w-n (dūn, 'below, short of'). They are left aside here, so the chronological sequence rests only on Ibn Fāris and Lane. Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) treats d-y-n as one root meaning yielding and abasement: dīn is obedience; dāna lahu means 'he became tractable and obeyed'; a people who are dīn are obedient. He derives madīna as the place where obedience to those in authority is maintained, and calls a slave madīn as one abased by labour. He accepts the sense 'habit' (dīn = ʿāda) only conditionally ('if it is sound'), explaining that the soul yields to what it is accustomed to. Lane, working from Ibn al-Aʿrābī and the Ṣiḥāḥ, gives obedience as the primary sense and records the alternative view that abasement and submission come first.

    Draws on: Maqāyīs · Lane · source-mismatch noted

    • Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha, s.v. d-y-n
    • Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon, s.v. دان
    • Wiktionary: Arabic root d-y-n (link not verified)
  • Letters & soundIn the letter lore attributed to al-Dabbāgh, dāl indicates something external to the self, yāʾ serves calling and emphasis, and nūn is 'the good that dwells in the self'.speculative

    What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.

    In the letter lore attributed to al-Dabbāgh, dāl indicates something external to the self, yāʾ serves calling and emphasis, and nūn is 'the good that dwells in the self'. Read together, these could be taken to describe an outward claim answered by an inward response, which fits obedience. In Ibn ʿArabī's correlation of letters with the heavens, yāʾ is assigned to the First Heaven; the data give no assignment for dāl or nūn. A reader in Ibn Jinnī's manner might hear the voiced stop dāl as firmness and the closing nasal as settling. Mainstream linguistics treats such correspondences as suggestive at most.

    Draws on: al-Dabbāgh · Ibn ʿArabī letter-heavens · imsās

    • Ibn Jinnī, al-Khaṣāʾiṣ (link not verified)
    • Ibn al-Mubārak, al-Ibrīz (sayings of al-Dabbāgh)
    • Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, ch. 198
  • Root structureAmong Ibn Fāris's d-y- chapter siblings, d-y-th ('making tractable, taming': al-tadhlīl) sits closest to d-y-n in meaning.plausible

    The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).

    Among Ibn Fāris's d-y- chapter siblings, d-y-th ('making tractable, taming': al-tadhlīl) sits closest to d-y-n in meaning. D-y-ṣ (slipping away, evasion) points the other way. He considers d-y-r to be d-w-r with the wāw shifted, and he dismisses d-y-k and d-y-f as non-productive. Of the permutations, d-n-w/y (nearness, whence al-dunyā) and n-d-y (gathering; moisture) are attested in the Maqāyīs, while y-d-n, y-n-d and n-y-d are not. The adjacency of yielding (d-y-n), nearness (d-n-w) and gathering (n-d-y) can be set side by side. It does not support a claim about a shared underlying meaning, and Ibn Jinnī's greater derivation is not a good fit here.

    Draws on: Maqāyīs chapter siblings · permutations

    • Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha, bāb al-dāl wa-l-yāʾ
    • Ibn Jinnī, al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, bāb al-ishtiqāq al-akbar (link not verified)
  • Semitic kin & loanwordsThe sense 'judgement' has secure cognates: Hebrew dīn 'to judge' and dayyān 'judge', Aramaic/Syriac dīnā 'judgement, lawsuit', and Akkadian diānu/dânu 'to judge' with dīnu 'judgement, verdict'.plausible

    Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.

    The sense 'judgement' has secure cognates: Hebrew dīn 'to judge' and dayyān 'judge', Aramaic/Syriac dīnā 'judgement, lawsuit', and Akkadian diānu/dânu 'to judge' with dīnu 'judgement, verdict'. Yawm al-dīn corresponds closely to Jewish Aramaic expressions for the day of judgement, and Jeffery takes this sense to have come into Arabic through Aramaic. For dīn as 'religion', Jeffery and others propose Middle Persian dēn (Avestan daēnā); this is plausible but disputed. Dāna 'to obey' and dayn 'debt' are usually treated as native Arabic. The Arabic lexeme probably combines an inherited root with borrowed senses, and the proportions of each cannot be fixed with confidence.

    Draws on: Hebrew dīn · Aramaic dīnā · Akkadian dīnu · Middle Persian dēn · Jeffery

  • Quranic exegesisOn 1:4 (māliki yawm al-dīn), al-Ṭabarī glosses dīn as reckoning and recompense (al-ḥisāb wa-l-jazāʾ) on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās and others, citing the proverb 'as you requite, you will be requited' (kamā tadīnu tudān).plausible

    How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.

    On 1:4 (māliki yawm al-dīn), al-Ṭabarī glosses dīn as reckoning and recompense (al-ḥisāb wa-l-jazāʾ) on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās and others, citing the proverb 'as you requite, you will be requited' (kamā tadīnu tudān). Al-Zamakhsharī gives the same gloss. Al-Rāzī's longer discussion of the verse centres on the variant readings mālik/malik. At 37:53, a-innā la-madīnūn is read as 'shall we be requited and called to account?', the passive participle of the same verb. At 2:132 (Allāh iṣṭafā lakum al-dīn), dīn is the religion of submission; al-Rāghib explains this sense as obedience extended to mean the revealed law. At 2:282 and 4:11 the form is dayn, a debt: 2:282 governs recording a loan in writing, and 4:11 places settlement of debts before the division of an estate.

    Draws on: al-Ṭabarī · al-Zamakhsharī · al-Rāzī · al-Rāghib

  • Akbarian readingThe root does not occur in the Faṣṣ Ādam contexts supplied, and no Iṣṭilāḥ definition is given.plausible

    The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.

    The root does not occur in the Faṣṣ Ādam contexts supplied, and no Iṣṭilāḥ definition is given. Its main treatment in the Fuṣūṣ is the chapter on Jacob. There Ibn ʿArabī distinguishes the dīn that is from God (the revealed law) from the dīn that people institute, and he reads dīn as submission (inqiyād) and as recompense (jazāʾ). He also accepts the lexical sense ʿāda, 'habit'. On his reading, what returns to the servant as recompense is determined by the servant's own states, so that judgement discloses the servant to themself.

    Draws on: Fuṣūṣ, Faṣṣ Yaʿqūb · not in Faṣṣ Ādam

    • Ibn ʿArabī, Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, Faṣṣ ḥikma rūḥiyya fī kalima yaʿqūbiyya
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