دن

Borrowed from Aramaic דַּנָּא / ܕܰܢܳܐ (dannā, “wine jug, vat”), from Akkadian 𒂁𒆗𒉡 (/⁠dannu⁠/, “storage vat mostly for storing beer and wine”).

• IPA^(key): /dann/

دَنّ • (dann) m (plural دِنَان (dinān))

1. wine jug
   • a. 570, about when المُرَقِّش الْأَصْغَر (al-muraqqiš al-ʔaṣḡar) died, with this also quoted in الأعشى [al-ʾaʿšā] (a. 625) Geyer, Rudolf, editor, Zwei Gedichte von Al-ʾAʿšâ (Sitzungsberichte der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien. Philosophisch-historische Klasse; 149/6)‎^[1] (in German), volume Mâ Bukâʾu, Wien: In Kommission bei Carl Gerold’s Sohn, published 1905, →DOI, page 65

     كـَأَنَّ فَاهَا (var. فِيهَا) عـُقَارًا قَرْقَفًا (var. عـُقَارٌ قَرْقَفٌ) نُشَّ (var. سُنَّ) مِنَ الدَنِّ فَالْكَأْسُ رَذُوم

     kaʔanna fāhā (var. fīhā) ʕuqāran qarqafan (var. ʕuqārun qarqafun) nušša (var. sunna) mina d-danni fa-l-kaʔsu raḏūm

     As if her mouth were a gassing hooch … poured from the jug so the stoop was about to overflow

دن (form I)

1. دِنَّ (dinna) /din.na/: inflection of دَانَ (dāna):
   1. third-person feminine plural past active/passive
   2. second-person feminine plural imperative
2. دِنْ (din) /din/: second-person masculine singular imperative of دَانَ (dāna)
3. دُنَّ (dunna) /dun.na/: inflection of دَانَ (dāna):
   1. third-person feminine plural past active
   2. second-person feminine plural imperative
4. دُنْ (dun) /dun/: second-person masculine singular imperative of دَانَ (dāna)

• Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 169
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “دن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate, page 918.
• Zimmern, Heinrich (1915) Akkadische Fremdwörter als Beweis für babylonischen Kultureinfluss (in German), Leipzig: A. Edelmann, page 33

دن • (din) m

1. Lisan ud-Dawat spelling of દિન (din)

Inherited from Prakrit 𑀤𑀺𑀡 (diṇa), from Sanskrit दिन (diná).

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /d̪ɪn/, [d̪ɪ̃nᵊ], /dɪɳ/, [d̪ɪ̃ɳᵊ]

دِن or دِݨ • (din or diṇ) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਦਿਨ or ਦਿਣ)

1. day; daytime (the period from sunrise till sunset)

   (by extension) the sun

   Antonym: رات (rāt)

2. day (a period of 24-hours)
3. day (from one midnight to another)
4. day; occasion
5. (in the plural) season; circumstance (ie. these days)
6. (figuratively) time
7. (figuratively) luck; fate (ie. to have good or bad luck)

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “دن”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz
• Bashir, Kanwal (2012) “دن”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Hyattsville, MD: Dunwoody Press
• “ਦਿਨ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “dina”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press, page 362

Inherited from Middle Hindi دن (dn /⁠din⁠/) (c. 1503),^[1] from Prakrit 𑀤𑀺𑀡 (diṇa), from Sanskrit दिन (diná),^[2] ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dyew-.

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /d̪ɪn/, [d̪ɪ̃n]

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• Rhymes: -ɪn

دِن • (din) m (Hindi spelling दिन)

1. day (from one midnight to another)

   (by extension) the sun

2. day (a period of 24-hours)
3. (by extension)
   1. a period of time
   2. age; era
4. day; daytime (the period from sunrise till sunset)

   Antonym: رات (rāt)

5. day; occasion
6. (in the plural) season; circumstance (ie. these days)
7. (figuratively) time
8. (figuratively) luck; fate (ie. to have good or bad luck)