ad-Din

ad-Din

ad-Din, (Arabic: الدين ‎), is a laqab, a component of some Arabic names, meaning "of the faith". The names concerned are used by Muslims all over the world.

The meaning of the word "Din", simply translated "faith", is explained further on the Dīn page.

The Arabic spelling corresponds to the letters "a l d i n", but because the letter "d" is a sun letter the letter "l" is here assimilated to it, and simply lengthens the sound of the "d". The initial vowel, written here as "a", is unstressed and can be transliterated into almost any vowel in the Latin alphabet. Spacing, hyphenation, the insertion of apostrophes and capitalisation are all variable. Commonly occurring representations are:

  • al-Din
  • ad-Din
  • ad-Dīn
  • ud-Din
  • -uddin (particularly in English-speaking south and east Asia)
  • -uddeen (particularly in English-speaking south and east Asia)
  • -eddine (particularly in French-speaking areas)
  • -ettin (particularly in Turkish names)

There are disambiguation pages for many of the names concerned, such as:

  • Ala-ud-din
  • Alimuddin
  • Amin ud-Din
  • Anwaruddin
  • Azharuddin
  • Azim ud-Din
  • Badr al-Din
  • Baha' al-Din
  • Burhan al-Din
  • Fakhr al-Din
  • Fariduddin
  • Ghiyath al-Din
  • Hamid al-Din
  • Haqq ad-Din
  • Hisham ud-Din
  • Husam ad-Din
  • Ikhtiyar al-Din
  • Imad al-Din
  • Ismat ad-Din
  • Izz al-Din
  • Jalal ad-Din
  • Jamal ad-Din
  • Kamal al-Din
  • Khair ad-Din
  • Majd ad-Din
  • Mansur ad-Din
  • Mohy al-Din
  • Moinuddin
  • Muhib ud-Din
  • Mu'iz ad-Din
  • Muslih ud-Din
  • Najm al-Din
  • Nasir al-Din
  • Nazimuddin
  • Nizam al-Din
  • Nur al-Din
  • Qamar ud-Din
  • Qutb ad-Din
  • Rashid al-Din
  • Riazuddin
  • Rukn al-Din
  • Sabr ad-Din
  • Sa'd al-Din
  • Sadr al-Din
  • Safi al-Din
  • Saif al-Din
  • Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn
  • Shams al-Din
  • Sharaf al-Din
  • Shihab al-Din
  • Shujauddin
  • Sirajuddin
  • Taj al-Din
  • Taqi al-Din
  • Zahir al-Din
  • Zayn ad-Din
  • Ziauddin

Use as separate surname

In modern times in English-speaking environments the name Uddin has sometimes been used as if it was a separate surname. Some examples are:


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