ایمان

See also: إيمان and أيمان

Old Punjabi

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Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.

Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān)bor.

Old Punjabi ایمان

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān), borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). Compare Old Hindi इमांन (imā̃n).

Noun

ایمان (transliteration needed /īmānu/) m (Gurmukhi ਈਮਾਨੁ)

1. faith

Descendants

• Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਈਮਾਨ (īmān)

  Shahmukhi script: اِیمان (īmān)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

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Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.

Ottoman Turkish ایمان

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

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

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “iman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2158
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “îmân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 516
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “ایمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 225
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Fides”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 572
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “ایمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 610
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “iman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ایمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 307

Persian

Etymology

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Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.

Persian ایمان

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /ʔiː.ˈmaːn/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiː.mɑ́ːn]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔiː.mɒ́ːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔi.mɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	īmān
Dari reading?	īmān
Iranian reading?	imân
Tajik reading?	imon

• Audio (Iran):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

ایمان • (īmān / imân) (Tajik spelling имон)

1. faith
2. belief, religious belief

Derived terms

• ایمان‌دار (īmān-dār / imân-dâr)
• ایمان‌داری (īmān-dārī / imân-dâri)

Proper noun

ایمان • (īmān / imân) (Tajik spelling Имон)

1. a male given name, Iman, from Arabic

Descendants

• → Assamese: ঈমান (iman)
• → Bengali: ঈমান (iman)
• → Gujarati: ઈમાન (īmān)
• → Old Hindi: इमांन (imā̃n)
  • Hindustani: īmān

    Hindi: ईमान

    Urdu: اِیمَان (īmān)

• → Maithili: imān

  Devanagari script: इमान

  Tirhuta script: 𑒃𑒧𑒰𑒢

• → Malayalam: ഈമാൻ (īmāṉ)
• → Marathi: इमान (imān)
• → Marwari: इमान (imān), ईमांन (īmā̃n)
• → Nepali: इमान (imān)
• → Odia: ଇମାନ (imāna)
• → Old Punjabi: ਈਮਾਨੁ (īmānu)
  • Punjabi: (īmān)

    Gurmukhi script: ਈਮਾਨ

    Shahmukhi script: اِیمان

• → Rohingya: iman
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: ايِمان (āyimā̃)

  Devanagari script: ईमानु

• → Tamil: ஈமான் (īmāṉ)

Punjabi

Etymology

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Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.

Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān)bor.

Old Punjabi اِیمان (īymān)

Punjabi ایمان

Inherited from Old Punjabi اِیمان (īymān), borrowed from Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān), borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Punjabi) IPA^(key): /i.ˈmäː.n/
  • (colloquial) IPA^(key): [ɪ.mäːnᵊ]

Noun

اِیمان • (īmān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਈਮਾਨ)

1. faith, belief
2. religion
3. conscience, integrity, probity

Declension

Declension of ایمان

	singular	plural
direct	اِیمان (īymān)	اِیمان (īymān)
oblique	اِیمان (īymān)	اِیماناں (īymānāṉ)
vocative	اِیمانا (īymānā)	اِیمانو (īymāno)
ablative	اِیمانوں (īymānoṉ)	—
locative	اِیمانے (īymāne)	اِیمانِیں (īymānīṉ)
instrumental	اِیمانوں (īymānoṉ)	–

Proper noun

اِیمان • (īmān) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਈਮਾਨ)

1. a female given name, Iman, Imaan, or Eman, from Arabic

Further reading

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002), “اِیمان”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: عزیز پبلشرز [ʻazīz pabliśarz]
• “ਈਮਾਨ”, in Punjabi-English Dictionary, Patiala: Punjabi University, 2025

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.

Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān)bor.

Urdu ایمان (emān)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān), borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi ایمان (ayman).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /iː.mɑːn/

• Audio (Pakistan):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

اِیمان • (īmān) m (Hindi spelling ईमान)

1. faith; belief
2. (Islam) creed
3. honesty; truthfulness
4. intention

Declension

Declension of ایمان

	singular	plural
direct	اِیمَان (īmān)	اِیمَان (īmān)
oblique	اِیمَان (īmān)	اِیمَانوں (īmānõ)
vocative	اِیمَان (īmān)	اِیمَانو (īmāno)

Derived terms

• اِیمَانْدَار (īmāndār, “honest”)
• اِیمَانْدَارِی (īmāndārī, “honesty”)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ء م ن (0 c, 8 e)

Proper noun

اِیمان • (īmān) f (Hindi spelling ईमान)

1. a female given name, Iman, Imaan, or Eman, from Arabic

Further reading

More information

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