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دَائِنٌ ذ A debtor; (S, M, Msb, * K;) as also ↓ مَدِينٌ and ↓ مَدْيُونٌ , (S, * M, Msb, * K,) this last of the dial. of Temeem, (M,) and ↓ مُدَانٌ (M, K) and ↓ مُدَّانٌ : (K:) or all of these, (M, K,) or ↓ مَدْيُونٌ , (S, TA,) one much in debt: (S, M, K, TA:) and ↓ مُدَّانٌ , constantly in debt: (Sh, T:) and دَائِنٌ signifies one who takes, or receives, a loan, or the like; who borrows; or who takes, or receives, or buys, upon credit: (Sh, T, Msb:) and also one who repays a debt: (Sh, T, TA:) thus bearing two contr. meanings: (TA:) or also one who gives, or grants, credit; or sells upon credit: (Msb:) pl. دَائِنُونَ, with which ↓ دِينٌ is syn. [as a quasi-pl. n.], as in the saying of a poet, “ وَكَانَالنَّاسُ إِِلَّا نَحْنُ دِينَا
” [And the people, except us, were debtors]. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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