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دَيْن
debt /ˈdajn/
nounB1#2955 most common
Also: loan, liability, obligation
Example sentences
عَلَيَّ دَيْنٌ.
I have a debt.
أُريدُ أَنْ أَدْفَعَ دَيْني.
I want to pay my debt.
لَدَيْهِ دَيْنٌ كَبيرٌ في البَنكِ.
He has a large debt at the bank.
تَراكَمَتْ عَلَيْهِ دُيونٌ كَثيرَةٌ بَعْدَ إِغْلاقِ الشَّرِكَةِ.
Many debts piled up on him after the company closed.
يَنبَغي عَلَى الدَّوْلَةِ أَنْ تُسَدِّدَ دَيْنَها الخارِجِيَّ قَبْلَ نِهايَةِ العامِ.
The state must pay off its foreign debt before the end of the year.
أَثارَ ارْتِفاعُ الدَّيْنِ العامِ مَخاوِفَ الاقْتِصادِيّينَ بِشَأْنِ قُدْرَةِ الحُكومَةِ عَلَى الوَفاءِ بِالتِزاماتِها.
The rise in public debt raised economists' worries about the government's ability to meet its obligations.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دَيْنٌ | دُيُونٌ |
| Genitive | دَيْنٍ | دُيُونٍ |
| Accusative | دَيْنًا | دُيُونًا |
| Vocative | يا دَيْنُ | يا دُيُونُ |
Word family
دائنcreditor
مَدينdebtor, in debt
دينreligion, judgment
استدانةborrowing, taking on debt
تداينmutual credit transaction
Etymology
Dayn comes from the Semitic root d-y-n, the same root behind دين (religion, judgment) and the verb دان (to owe, to judge, to hold a belief). The shared core sense is obligation or reckoning, which splits into a financial branch (debt owed to a person) and a religious or legal branch (duty owed to God or the law). This split is common in Semitic languages, where the same root covers both money owed and moral or legal accountability.
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