How to say "religion" in Arabic

Shifted meaning

Meaningreligion

Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic

دِين

dīnדין

دين

Hebrew · Modern Hebrew

דת

datدَات

How the two words are related

Shifted meaning

Same root as a Hebrew word, but the meaning drifted over the centuries.

Arabic root

د-ي-ن

Hebrew root

ד-י-ן

Same root, shifted meaning: Hebrew דין is law and judgment, Arabic dīn is religion. They meet exactly in yawm ad-dīn, the Day of Judgment — a perfect echo of יום הדין.

Related Hebrew word:דיןdinدِين

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In a phrase

يَوْم الدِّين

yawm ad-dīnיום א-דין

the Day of Judgment

Plural

أَدْيَان

adyānאדיאן

broken plural aCCāC — like وَلَد→أَوْلَاد

More words from this root

religious, piousmutadayyinمُتَدَيِّنדתי