# دین
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

دین (din) (definite accusative دینی (dini), plural دینلر (dinlər))
* Arabic spelling of din (“religion”)

#### Declension
## Central Kurdish
### Etymology

Compare Persian دین (din, “religion”), Parthian 𐫅𐫏𐫗 (dyn, “religion”), Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁 (daēnā, “religion, vision”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /diːn/

### Noun

| Northern Kurdish | dîn |
دین (dîn)
* religion
    Synonym: ئایین (ayîn)

#### Derived terms

* بێدین (bêdîn)
* دیندار (dîndar)
* دینی (dînî)

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn, “religion, creed”), with some influence from Middle Persian [script needed] (dyn' /⁠dēn⁠/), which developed from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎡𐎴 (d-a-i-n /⁠*daina-⁠/, “a religious-informed or conscientious way of life”).

#### Noun

دین • (din) (definite accusative دینی (dini), plural ادیان (edyân))
* religion, faith, belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality, accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief
    Synonym: مذهب (mezheb)

##### Derived terms

* دین فروش (din furuş, “hypocrite”)
* دین پرور (din perver, “pious”)
* دیندار (dindâr, “religious, pious”)
* دینسز (dinsiz, “atheist; merciless”)
* دینی (dinî, “religious”)
* كیزلو دین قوللانمق (kizli din kullanmak, “to be hypocritical”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: din
* → Albanian: din

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 784
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “din6”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1227
* Hindoglu, Artin (1838) “دین”, in Hazine-i lûgat ou dictionnaire abrégé turc-français‎, Vienna: F. Beck, page 240a
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 601
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Religio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 1456
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2217
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “din”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 940

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic دَيْن (dayn, “debt, obligation”).

#### Noun

دین • (deyn) (definite accusative دینی (deyni), plural دیون (düyun))
* (finance) debt, money that a person or entity owes or is required to pay to another, generally as a result of a loan or other financial transaction
    Synonym: بورج (borc)
* debt, obligation, an action, state of mind, or object one has an obligation to perform for another, adopt toward another, or give to another
    Synonym: بورج (borc)

##### Derived terms

* تحویل دین ایتمك (tâhvil-i deyn etmek, “to transform a debt”)
* دین مصفی (deyn-i musaffa, “liquid debt”)
* دین ممتاز (deyn-i mümtâz, “privileged debt”)
* رهنلو دین (rehenly deyn, “mortgage debt”)
* رونسز دین (rehensiz deyn, “chirographic debt”)

##### Descendants

* Turkish: deyn

#### Further reading

* Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881) “دین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 784
* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “deyn”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1193
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “deyn”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 216
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “دین”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 601
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Debitum”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎, Vienna, column 324
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “دین”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 2216
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “deyn”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “دین”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 939

## Persian
### Etymology 1

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dyn' /⁠dēn⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎡𐎴 (d-a-i-n /⁠*daina-⁠/, “a religious-informed or conscientious way of life”), already influenced by Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬉𐬥𐬁 (daēnā, “religion, vision”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰayHanā- (compare Sanskrit ध्यान (dhyāna)), and Semitic words, see Arabic دِين (dīn), from which the broken plural ادیان (adyân) is borrowed.

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ˈdiːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪íːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪íːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪íːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪ín]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [d̪íːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪ín]

#### Noun

دین • (din) (plural دین‌ها (din-hâ) or ادیان (adyân))
* religion
** c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume II, verse 1770:ملت عشق از همه دینها جداست عاشقان را ملت و مذهب خداستmillat-i 'išq az hama dīnhā judā-st 'āšiqān rā millat u mazhab xudā-stThe religion of Love is apart from all religions: for lovers, the (only) religion and creed is—God.

##### Derived terms

* دیندار (dindâr)
* دینور (dinvar)
* بهدین (beh-din)
* بی‌دین (bi-din)

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from Arabic دَيْن (dayn).

#### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ˈdajn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ǽjn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [d̪ǽjn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [d̪ǽjn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [d̪ǽjn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ˈd̪ejn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [d̪ǽjn]

#### Noun

دین • (deyn)
* loan
* debt

##### Descendants

* → Bengali: দেনা (dena)
* → Urdu: دین (dain)

## Urdu
### Etymology 1

From Sanskrit दीन (dīna).

#### Adjective

دین • (dīn) (Hindi spelling दीन)
* poor
* needy
* indigent
* distressed

### Etymology 2

From Sanskrit दिन (dina).

#### Adjective

دین • (dain) (Hindi spelling दैन)
* daily
* diurnal

### Etymology 3

Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn) and/or from Classical Persian دین (dīn), from Middle Persian dyn' (dēn).

#### Noun

دین • (dīn) m (Hindi spelling दीन)
* faith
* religion

### Etymology 4

From Arabic دَيْن (dayn).

#### Noun

دین • (dain) m (Hindi spelling दैन)
* debt
* loan

### Etymology 5

From Sanskrit दीन (dīna).

#### Noun

دین • (dain) m (Hindi spelling दैन)
* poverty
* misery
* lowliness