داد

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian داد (dâd).

Noun

داد (dad)

1. justice (state of being just or fair)

Derived terms

• دادگە (dadge)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾt' /⁠dād⁠/, “law, justice”), from earlier [script needed] (dāt), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎫𐎶 (d-a-t-m /⁠dātam⁠/, “law”), from Proto-Iranian *dāta- (compare Manichaean Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾd /⁠dād⁠/), and the Iranian borrowings Classical Syriac ܕܬܐ (dāṯāʾ), Old Armenian դատ (dat), Hebrew דָּת (dāṯ)), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [dɑːð]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [d̪ɑːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔːd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɒːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [d̪ɔd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	dāḏ
Dari reading?	dād
Iranian reading?	dâd
Tajik reading?	dod

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Noun

Dari	داد
Iranian Persian
Tajik	дод

داد • (dâd)

1. justice, equity
2. shout, yell
3. redress of grievances
4. complaint, lamentation (under oppression)

Derived terms

• دادستان (dâdsetân)
• دادرسی (dâdrasi)
• دادگاه (dâdgâh)
• دادگر (dâdgar)
• دادگستر (dâdgostar)
• دادگستری (dâdgostari)
• بیداد (bidâd)
• داد زدن (dâd zadan)

Descendants

• → Bengali: দাদ (dad)

Verb

داد • (dâd)

1. past stem of دادن

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “dād”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “داد”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul