Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

دَيَّانٌ

Root: دين

Full Definition

دَيَّانٌ A requiter, who neglects not any deed, but requites it, with good and with evil; in this sense, with the article ال, applied as an epithet to God: a subduer; applied to a man in this sense; and also, in the same sense, with the article ال, to God: a judge; a ruler, or governor; in these senses, likewise, applied to a man; and, with the article ال, to God: a manager, a conducter, or an orderer, of affairs of another.


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