اعتماد

Arabic

Root
ع م د (ʕ m d)
15 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of اِعْتَمَدَ (iʕtamada).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iʕ.ti.maːd/

Noun

اِعْتِمَاد • (iʕtimād) m

1. verbal noun of اِعْتَمَدَ (iʕtamada) (form VIII)
2. confidence, trust, base, fundament
3. reliance, dependence
4. accreditation

Declension

Declension of noun اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād)

singular	basic singular triptote
	indefinite	definite	construct
informal	اِعْتِمَاد iʕtimād	الِاعْتِمَاد al-iʕtimād	اِعْتِمَاد iʕtimād
nominative	اِعْتِمَادٌ iʕtimādun	الِاعْتِمَادُ al-iʕtimādu	اِعْتِمَادُ iʕtimādu
accusative	اِعْتِمَادًا iʕtimādan	الِاعْتِمَادَ al-iʕtimāda	اِعْتِمَادَ iʕtimāda
genitive	اِعْتِمَادٍ iʕtimādin	الِاعْتِمَادِ al-iʕtimādi	اِعْتِمَادِ iʕtimādi

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: etimad
• → Persian: اعتماد
• → Ottoman Turkish: اعتماد (itimad)
  • → Turkish: itimat
• → Turkmen: ygtymаt
• → Uyghur: ئېتىماد (ëtimad)
• → Uzbek: eʼtimod

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād).

Noun

اعتماد • (itimad) (definite accusative اعتمادی (itimadı))

1. trust, confidence

Usage notes

• The thing trusted or relied upon is in the dative.

Descendants

• Turkish: itimat

References

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “itimad”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “اعتماد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 110b

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔiʔ.ti.ˈmaːd/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔe̞ʔ.t̪ʰɪ.mɑːd̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔe̞ʔ.t̪ʰɪ.mɑːd̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔeː.t̪ʰɪ.mɑːd̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔeː.t̪ʰi.mɔːd̪̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔeʔ.t̪ʰe.mɒːd̪̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔeʔ.t̪ʰi.mɔd̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	i'timād
Dari reading?	e'timād
Iranian reading?	e'temâd
Tajik reading?	e'timod

Noun

اعتماد • (i'timād / e'temâd) (Tajik spelling эътимод)

1. trust, confidence

Derived terms

• اِعتِماد داشتَن (e'temâd dâštan)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād), from Arabic اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ɪʔ.t̪ɪ.mɑːd̪/, [e(ʔ).t̪ɪ.mɑːd̪], [e(ʔ).t̪e.mɑːd̪]
• (Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [ɛːt̪.mɑːd̪]
• Rhymes: -ɑːd̪
• Hyphenation: اِع‧تِ‧ماد

Noun

اِعْتِمَاد • (i'timād) m (Hindi spelling एतिमाद)

1. belief
2. confidence, trust
3. reliance

Declension

Declension of اعتماد

	singular	plural
direct	اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād)	اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād)
oblique	اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād)	اِعْتِمَادوں (i'timādõ)
vocative	اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād)	اِعْتِمَادو (i'timādo)

Adverb

اِعْتِمَاد • (i'timād) (Hindi spelling एतिमाद)

1. in confidence, privately (+ میں (mẽ))

Further reading

• “اعتماد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اعتماد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “اعتماد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “اعتماد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “اِعتِماد”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 99
• John Shakespear (1834), “اعتماد”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC