दीन

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /d̪iːn/,

Borrowed from Arabic دِين (dīn).

दीन • (dīn) m (Urdu spelling دین)

1. faith, religion

   Synonyms: धर्म (dharm), मज़हब (mazhab)

Borrowed from Sanskrit दीन (dīna).

दीन • (dīn) (indeclinable, Urdu spelling دین)

1. poor, needy

   Synonyms: ग़रीब (ġarīb), दरिद्र (daridra)

2. distressed, distraught

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• (Vedic) IPA^(key): /diː.nɐ́/
• (Classical Sanskrit) IPA^(key): /ˈd̪iː.n̪ɐ/

दीन • (dīná) stem

1. scarce, scanty
2. distressed, depressed, timid, sad
3. miserable, wretched

• दीनम् (dīnam, “sadly, miserably”)
• दीना (dīnā, “distress, wretchedness”)
• दीनता (dīnatā, “scarcity, weakness”)
• दीनदक्ष (dīnadakṣa, “of weak understanding”)
• दीनदीन (dīnadīna, “very wretched or miserable”)
• दीनचित्त (dīnacitta, “distressed in mind, dejected”)

• → Balinese: ᬤᬷᬦ (dina)
• → Gujarati: દીન (dīn)
• → Hindi: दीन (dīn)
• Romani: dilo

• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dīná”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press
• Monier Williams (1899) “दीन”, in A Sanskrit–English Dictionary, , new edition, Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 480.