دان

From the root د ي ن‎ (d-y-n). Compare Hebrew דן‎.

دَانَ • (dāna) I, non-past يَدِينُ‎‎ (yadīnu)

1. to owe (money)
2. to borrow
3. to lend
4. to compel
5. to render contemptible
6. to submit, to yield, to obey

دَانَ • (dāna) I, non-past يَدِينُ‎‎ (yadīnu), passive participle مَدِين‎ (madīn) or مَدْيُون‎ (madyūn)

1. to judge

   ‏كَمَا تَدِينُ تُدَانُ‎‎

   kamā tadīnu tudānu

   (please add an English translation of this usage example)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 37:53:

     ‏أَإِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَإِنَّا لَمَدِينُونَ‎

     ʔaʔiḏā mitnā wakunnā turāban waʕiẓāman ʔaʔinnā lamadīnūna

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• كَمَا تَدِينُ تُدَانُ‎ (kamā tadīnu tudānu, proverb, literally “As you judge, you will be judged”)

دَانَ • (dāna) I, non-past يَدِينُ‎‎ (yadīnu)

1. (intransitive) to hold religion.

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “دان”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

From Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).

دان (dan)

1. to give

دان (dān)

1. tooth

• dan

• IPA^(key): /dan/
• Rhymes: -dan, -an

دان (Rumi spelling dan)

1. and (used to connect two similar words, phrases, et cetera)

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾn' /⁠dān⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *daHnáH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dʰaHnáH, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰoHnéh₂.

• دون‎ (dun) (eye-dialect)

دان • (dân)

1. grain

• دانه‎ (dâne)
• دان‌دان‎ (dân-dân)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “دان”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

From Middle Persian [script needed] (-dʾn' /⁠-dān⁠/).

• ـدون‎ (-dun) (eye-dialect)

ـدان • (-dân)

1. holder, container

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: -ਦਾਨ (-dān)

  Shahmukhi script: ـدان‎ (-dān)

• Persian terms suffixed with دان

دان • (dân)

1. present stem of دانستن‎ (dânestan)

From Arabic أُذُن‎ (ʔuḏun).

• IPA^(key): /daːn/, [dæːn]

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دان • (dān) f (dual دنتين‎ (dintēn), plural دنين‎ (dinēn))

1. ear