Ad-Din ( , "(of) the religion/faith/creed") is a suffix component of some
Arabic name
Arabic names have historically been based on a long naming system. Many people from Arabic-speaking and also non-Arab Muslim countries have not had given name, given, middle name, middle, and family names but rather a chain of names. This system ...
s in the
construct case, meaning 'the religion/faith/creed', e.g. Saif ad-Din ( , "Sword of the Faith"). Varieties are also used in non-Arabic names throughout the Muslim world, It is used as a family name-suffix by some royal Muslim families, including the imperial
Seljuks,
Walashmas,
Mughals
The Mughal Empire was an early modern empire in South Asia. At its peak, the empire stretched from the outer fringes of the Indus River Basin in the west, northern Afghanistan in the northwest, and Kashmir in the north, to the highlands of pre ...
, and the noble
Alvi Hyderabadi families.
The Arabic spelling in its standard transliteration is . Due to the phonological rules involving the "
sun letter" ( ), the Arabic letter () is an assimilated letter of the
Arabic definite article
(, also Romanization of Arabic, romanized as ''el-'', ''il-'', and ''l-'' as pronounced in some varieties of Arabic), is the definite article in the Arabic language: a grammatical particle, particle (''ḥarf'') whose function is to render the ...
(). This leads to the variant phonetic transliteration . The first noun of
the compound must have the ending -''u'', which, according to the assimilation rules in Arabic (names in general are in the nominative case), assimilates the following ''a''-, thus manifesting into in
Classical and
Modern Standard Arabic
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. However, all modern Arabic vernaculars lack the noun endings. Thus, the vowel of the definite article in them is pronounced in full as either ''a'' or ''e'' (the latter mostly in
Maghreb
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and
Egypt
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). At the same time, the Arabic short vowel ''u'' is rendered as short ''o'' in Persian, thus .
In practice, romanizations of Arabic names containing this element may vary greatly, including:
* , , ,
* , ,
* , (particularly in
English-speaking
South
South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east.
Etymology
The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþa ...
and
East Asia
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), (particularly in English-speaking South and East Asia)
* (particularly in
French-speaking areas)
* (particularly in
Turkish name
A Turkish name consists of an ''ad'' or an ''isim'' (given name; plural ''adlar'' and ''isimler'') and a ''soyadı'' or ''soyisim'' (surname). Turkish names exist in a "full name" format. While there is only one ''soyadı'' (surname) in the full ...
s)
* (particularly in
Persian names)
* (particularity in South Asia)
Examples of names including this element are:
*
Aladdin
*
Aftab al-Din
*
Alimuddin
*
Amin ud-Din
*
Anwaruddin
*
Asad ud-Din
*
Awwal ud-Din
*
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
*
Hasan al-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
*
Kafil al-Din
*
Kamal al-Din
*
Khair ad-Din
*
Majd ad-Din
*
Mansur ad-Din
*
Mizan ud-Din
*
Mohy al-Din
*
Mohyeddin
*
Moinuddin
*
Muhib ud-Din
*
Mufiz-ud-Din
*
Mu'in al-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
*
Sa'd al-Din
*
Sadr al-Din
*
Safi al-Din
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Saif al-Din
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Ṣalāḥ ad-Dīn
*
Shams al-Din
*
Sharaf al-Din
*
Shihab al-Din
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Shujauddin
*
Sirajuddin
*
Taj al-Din
*
Taqi al-Din
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Zahir al-Din
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Zamir al-Din
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Zayn ad-Din (or Zinedine)
*
Ziauddin
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Use of Uddin as surname
In modern times in English-speaking environments, the name Uddin has sometimes been used as if it was a separate surname. An example is:
*
Pola Uddin, Baroness Uddin (born 1959), British politician
Use of Eddine as surname
*
Ahmed Saad Eddine, Egyptian politician
See also
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al-Dawla
*
Adin
Islamic culture
Din
Surnames of Arabic origin
Islamic honorifics