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Eddin

Ad-Din (Arabic: الْدِّين ad-dīn '(of) the Religion/Faith/Creed') is a suffix component of some Arabic names, meaning 'the religion/faith/creed', e.g. Saif al-Din (Arabic: سيف الدّين, romanized: Sayf al-Dīn, lit. '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, and the noble Alawid Hyderabadi nawabs. The Arabic spelling in its standard transliteration is ad-Din. Due to the phonological rules involving the "sun letter" (حرف الشّمسيّة hurfu ’sh-Shamsiyyah), the Arabic letter د (dāl) is an assimilated letter of the Arabic definite article ال (al). The first noun of the compound must have the ending -u… more »