آئین

• آیین (âyin)

Akin to Old Armenian օրէն (ōrēn), an Iranian borrowing.

آئین • (ā'īn, āyīn / â'in, âyin) (Tajik spelling оъин, or оин)

1. institution, rite, ceremony, custom, ordinance, canon, usage, prescription
2. common law (in contradistinction to Islamic sharia law)
3. mode, form, manner
4. ornament, decoration

• آئین‌نامه (â'in-nâme)

• → Assamese: আইন (ain)
• → Bengali: আইন (ain)
• → Hindustani:

  → Hindi: आईन (āīn)

  → Urdu: آئِین (āīn)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–), “آیین”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press.
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934), “آئین”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• Lambton, Ann K.S. (1954), Persian Vocabulary, London: Cambridge University Press, page 20
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “آیین”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Classical Persian آئین (ā'īn).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɑː.iːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

آئِین • (āīn) m (Hindi spelling आईन)

1. constitution

   Synonym: دَسْتُور (dastūr)

• “آئین”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “آئین”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.