Central Kurdish

Noun

داد ‎(dad)

1. justice (state of being just or fair)

Derived terms

• دادگە ‎(dadge)

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian dʾt' ‎(dād, “law, justice”), from earlier dāt, from Old Persian 𐎭𐎠𐎫 ‎(dāta, “law”), from Proto-Iranian *dāta- (compare Manichaean Middle Persian 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

• IPA^(key): /dɒːd/

Noun

داد • ‎(dâd)

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

Derived terms

• دادستان ‎(dâdsetân)
• دادگاه ‎(dâdgâh)
• دادگر ‎(dâdgar)
• دادگستر ‎(dâdgostar)
• دادگستری ‎(dâdgostari)
• بیداد ‎(bidâd)
• داد زدن ‎(dâd zadan)

Verb

داد • ‎(dâd)

1. past stem of داد

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