ديدن
See also: دیدن
Arabic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- دَيْدَان (daydān), دَيْدُون (daydūn), دَيْدَدَان (daydadān)
Etymology
[edit]A Middle Iranian borrowing, equivalent to Old Armenian օրէն (ōrēn).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]دَيْدَن • (daydan) m
- custom, manner, habit, wont
- 2019 April 23, حَسَنْ نَصْرُ الله [ḥasan naṣru llāh], “النص الكامل لكلمة سماحة السيد حسن نصر الله في ذكرى تأسيس جمعية كشافة المهدي (عج)”, in قناة المنار [Almanar Channel][1]:
- يَعْنِي مَا فَشَلُوا فِي إِنْجَازِهِ وَتَحْقِيقِهِ عَسْكَرِيًّا يُرِيدُونَ أَنْ يَذْهَبُوا إِلَيْهِ بِالتَّجْوِيعِ وَٱلْحِصَارِ وَٱلْعُقُوبَاتِ، وَهَٰذَا دَيْدَنُ ٱلشَّيْطَانِ ٱلْأَكْبَرِ وَٱلْمُسْتَكْبِرِ ٱلْأَمِيرْكِيِّ
- yaʕnī mā fašalū fī ʔinjāzihi wataḥqīqihi ʕaskariyyan yurīdūna ʔan yaḏhabū ʔilayhi bi-t-tajwīʕi wal-ḥiṣāri wal-ʕuqūbāti, wahāḏā daydanu š-šayṭāni l-ʔakbari wal-mustakbiri l-ʔamīrkiyyi
- ...meaning that what they have failed to achieve militarily, they wish to realize through famishing, blockade, and sanctions, and this is the habit of the Great Egomaniacal Devil, the United States.
Declension
[edit]| singular | basic singular triptote | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | construct | |
| informal | دَيْدَن daydan |
الدَّيْدَن ad-daydan |
دَيْدَن daydan |
| nominative | دَيْدَنٌ daydanun |
الدَّيْدَنُ ad-daydanu |
دَيْدَنُ daydanu |
| accusative | دَيْدَنًا daydanan |
الدَّيْدَنَ ad-daydana |
دَيْدَنَ daydana |
| genitive | دَيْدَنٍ daydanin |
الدَّيْدَنِ ad-daydani |
دَيْدَنِ daydani |
References
[edit]- Freytag, Georg (1833), “ديدن”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum[2] (in Latin), volume 2, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 17
- Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860), “ديدن”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc[3] (in French), volume 1, Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie, page 681
- Lane, Edward William (1863-1893), “ديدن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 862.
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “ديدن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 317
- Wehr, Hans with Kropfitsch, Lorenz (1985), “ديدن”, in Arabisches Wörterbuch für die Schriftsprache der Gegenwart[4] (in German), 5th edition, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, published 2011, →ISBN, page 382