diyya
English
Noun
diyya (countable and uncountable, plural diyat)
- (Islam) A financial compensation paid, under sharia law, to the victim or their heirs in cases of homicide, bodily harm, or property damage (in some cases the victim side must accept this payment, while in others it can insist on talion instead).
- Hypernym: blood money
- Coordinate terms: bloodwite, qisas, wergeld
Hausa
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