ایمان

See also: إيمان and أيمان

Old Punjabi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ایمان (īmān), from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān). Compare Old Hindi इमांन (imā̃n).

Noun

اِیمانُ (īmānu) m (Gurmukhi ਈਮਾਨੁ)

1. faith

Descendants

• Punjabi:

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

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

Further reading

• Christopher Shackle (2011) “ایمان”, in A Gurū Nānak Glossary, 2^nd edition, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, →ISBN, page 29
• “ایمان”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2024

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

• 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], 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

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔiː.ˈmɑːn]

 

• (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):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːn

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

Dari	ایمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Имон

ایمان • (imân)

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:

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

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

• → Rohingya: iman
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: ايِمان

  Devanagari script: ईमानु

• → Tamil: ஈமான் (īmāṉ)

Punjabi

Noun

اِیمان • (īymān) ? (Gurmukhi spelling ਈਮਾਨ)

1. Alternative spelling of اِمان (īmān)

Declension

Declension of ایمان
dir. sg.	اِیمان (īymān)
dir. pl.	اِیمان (īymān)
	singular	plural
direct	اِیمان (īymān)	اِیمان (īymān)
oblique	اِیمان (īymān)	اِیماناں (īymānāṉ)
vocative	اِیمانا (īymānā)	اِیمانو (īymāno)
ablative	اِیمانوں (īymānoṉ)	اِیماناں (īymānāṉ)
locative	اِیمانے (īymāne)	اِیمانِیں (īymānīṉ)
instrumental	اِیمانوں (īymānoṉ)	–

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.

Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān)bor.

Urdu اِیمَان (īmān)

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):

  (file)

• 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 (īmānō̃)
vocative	اِیمَان (īmān)	اِیمَانو (īmānō)

Derived terms

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

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ء م ن (0 c, 5 e)

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