ایمان

See also: إيمان and أيمان

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	ī
Dari reading?	ī
Iranian reading?	i
Tajik reading?	i

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• Rhymes: -ân

Noun

Dari	ایمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	имон

ایمان • (imân)

1. faith
2. belief, religious belief

Derived terms

• ایمان‌دار (imân-dâr)
• ایمان‌داری (imân-dâri)

Proper noun

ایمان • (imân)

1. a male given name, Iman, from Arabic

Descendants

• → Assamese: ঈমান (iman)
• → Bengali: ইমান (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:

    Gurmukhi script: ਇਮਾਨ (imān), ਈਮਾਨ (īmān)

    Shahmukhi script: اِمان (imān), اِیمان (īmān)

• → Rohingya: iman
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: ايِمان

  Devanagari script: ईमानु

• → Tamil: ஈமான் (īmāṉ)

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Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

اِیمان • (īmān) m (Hindi spelling ईमान)

1. belief
2. faith
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

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

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