داد

Central Kurdish

Etymology

Compare Persian داد (dâd).

Noun

داد (dad)

  1. justice (state of being just or fair)

Derived terms
  • دادگە (dadge)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾt' /⁠dād⁠/, “law, justice”), from earlier [script needed] (dāt), from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎫𐎶 (d-a-t-m /⁠dātam⁠/, “law”), from Proto-Iranian *dāta- (compare Manichaean Middle Persian [script needed] (dʾd /⁠dād⁠/), and the Iranian borrowings Classical Syriac ܕܬܐ (dāṯāʾ), Old Armenian դատ (dat), Hebrew דָּת (dāṯ)), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [d̪ɑːd̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [d̪ɑːd̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [d̪ɔːd̪̥]

Readings
Classical reading? dāḏ
Dari reading? dād
Iranian reading? dâd
Tajik reading? dod
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Noun
Dari داد
Iranian Persian
Tajik дод

داد • (dâd)

  1. justice, equity
  2. shout, yell
  3. redress of grievances
  4. complaint, lamentation (under oppression)

Derived terms

Descendants
  • → Bengali: দাদ (dad)

Verb

داد • (dâd)

  1. past stem of دادن

References
  • MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “dād”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press
  • Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “داد”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
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