Where does “ديني” come from?

ديني (Arabic) comes from Arabic دِين, from Pahlavi dēn, from Old Persian *dainah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian dʰayHanā-.

ديني (Arabic): religious, related to religion; second-person...

Definitions

  1. religious, related to religion; second-person...

Ancestry of “ديني”, step by step

ديني traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Arabic دِين

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicدِينjudgement; religion; faith
2Pahlavidēn
3Old Persian*dainah
4Proto-Indo-IraniandʰayHanā-

via Arabic ـِيّ

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Arabicـِيّ{{n-g|suffix used to derive adjectives and...

Words derived from “ديني

Every word from Proto-Indo-Iranian dʰayHanā-Every word from Old Persian *dainahEvery word from Pahlavi dēn