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دِينِيّ
religious /diːˈniːj/
adjectiveB1#2505 most common
Also: of religion, faith-based
Example sentences
هُوَ رَجُلٌ دِينِيٌّ.
He is a religious man.
نَذْهَبُ إِلَى مَدْرَسَةٍ دِينِيَّةٍ.
We go to a religious school.
يَحْتَرِمُ النَّاسُ حُرِّيَّتَهُ الدِّينِيَّةَ.
People respect his religious freedom.
تُنَاقِشُ الحُكُومَةُ قَانُونًا جَدِيدًا يَتَعَلَّقُ بِالتَّعْلِيمِ الدِّينِيِّ.
The government is discussing a new law related to religious education.
أَثَارَ الخِطَابُ الدِّينِيُّ لِلزَّعِيمِ جَدَلًا وَاسِعًا فِي المُجْتَمَعِ.
The leader's religious rhetoric sparked wide controversy in society.
تَتَشَابَكُ الهُوِيَّةُ الدِّينِيَّةُ مَعَ الِانْتِمَاءَاتِ السِّيَاسِيَّةِ وَالثَّقَافِيَّةِ بِشَكْلٍ مُعَقَّدٍ فِي كَثِيرٍ مِنَ المُجْتَمَعَاتِ.
Religious identity intertwines with political and cultural affiliations in a complex way in many societies.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | دِينِيٌّ | دِينِيُّونَ |
| Genitive | دِينِيٍّ | دِينِيِّينَ |
| Accusative | دِينِيًّا | دِينِيِّينَ |
| Vocative | يَا دِينِيُّ | يَا دِينِيُّونَ |
Word family
دِينreligion, faith
مُتَدَيِّنreligious, devout (of a person)
تَدَيُّنreligiosity, piety
دِيَانَةreligion, faith, creed
لَادِينِيّnon-religious, secular
Etymology
دِينِيّ is built from the noun دِين (dīn), meaning religion, faith, or judgment, which appears already in pre-Islamic and Quranic Arabic. The nisba suffix -ِيّ is added to turn a noun into a relative adjective, so دِين plus -ِيّ gives the sense of religion plus of, meaning religious. The root is Semitic, not Indo-European, so it has no PIE ancestor.
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