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Etymological Dictionary of Arabic
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DYN دين 
ID … • Sw – • BP – • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021
√DYN 
“root” 
▪ DYN_1 ‘…’ ↗…
▪ DYN_2 ‘religion, creed, faith’ ↗dīn

♦ Semantic value spectrum in ClassAr (acc. to BAH2008): ‘judge, ruler, controller; debtor, creditor, to lend, borrow; punishment, reward; to obey; custom, habit; to worship, religion, creed, conviction; slave, to be enslaved, be owned; to compel; to submit, to own up, to sin’ 
▪ From protSem *√DYN ‘to judge’ – Huehnergard2011.
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▪ For Engl n.prop. Daniel and Midian cf. ↗dīn. 
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dīn دِين 
ID 295 • Sw – • NahḍCon • BP 333 • APD … • © SG | 15Feb2021, last updated 11Apr2023
√DYN 
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religion, creed, faith, belief – WehrCowan1979. 
▪ Cheung2017rev: may have been borrowed directly from Pers, or via Aram, cf. mPers or Parth dēn, but also Syr dʔyn, dyn ‘religion’. For details, see below, section DISC.
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▪ (Huehnergard2011:) Cf. Engl Daniel, from Hbr dānīʔēl, dānīyēʔl ‘my judge (is) God’ (alternatively, ‘God has judged’), from dān ‘judge’, PA of dān ‘to judge’; Midian, from Hbr midyān ‘place of judgment’ (sense uncertain), from dān (see above). 
► yawm al-dīn, n., the Day of Judgment

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