ایمان

See also: إيمان and أيمان

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān, faith, belief), verbal noun of آمَنَ (ʔāmana, to believe).

Noun

ایمان • (iman)

  1. (religion) faith, belief, creed, confidence or trust in the existence of God
    Synonym: اینان (inan)

Derived terms

  • ایمان كتیرمك (iman getirmek, to have faith in God)
  • ایماندار (imandar, believing)
  • ایمانسز (imansız, unbelieving)

Descendants

  • Turkish: iman
  • Albanian: iman

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān, faith, belief), verbal noun of آمَنَ (ʔāmana, to believe).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔiː.mɑ́ːn]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔiː.mɑ́ːn]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔi.mɔ́ːn]

Readings
Classical reading? īmān
Dari reading? īmān
Iranian reading? imân
Tajik reading? imon
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ân

Noun

Dari ایمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik имон

ایمان • (imân)

  1. faith
  2. belief, religious belief

Derived terms

Proper noun

Dari ایمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik Имон

ایمان • (imân)

  1. a male given name, Iman, from Arabic

Descendants

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ایمان (īmān), from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِیمان • (īmān) m (Hindi spelling ईमान)

  1. belief
  2. faith
    Synonyms: وِشْواس (viśvās), آسْتھا (āsthā)
  3. creed

Declension

Declension of ایمان
singular plural
direct اِیمَان (īmān) اِیمَان (īmān)
oblique اِیمَان (īmān) اِیمَانوں (īmānō̃)
vocative اِیمَان (īmān) اِیمَانو (īmānō)

Derived terms

Further reading

  • ایمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “ايمان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 115
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ايمان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 88
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