ایمان

ایمان

See also: إيمان‎ and أيمان‎

Persian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /iːˈmɑːn/

• (Dari Persian) IPA^(key): /iːˈmɑːn/

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /iːˈmɒːn/

• (Tajik) IPA^(key): /iˈmɔn/

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• Rhymes: -ân

Noun

Dari	ایمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	имон (imon)

ایمان • (imân)

1. faith
2. belief, religious belief

Derived terms

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

Proper noun

Dari	ایمان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Имон (Imon)

ایمان • (imân)

1. a male given name, Iman, from Arabic

Descendants

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

    Hindi: ईमान

    Urdu: اِیمَان‎

• → Maithili: imān

  Devanagari: इमान

  Tirhuta: 𑒃𑒧𑒰𑒢

• → Malayalam: ഈമാൻ (īmāṉ)
• → Marathi: इमान (imān)
• → Marwari: इमान (imān), ईमांन (īmānn)
• → Nepali: इमान (imān)
• → Oriya: ଇମାନ (imanô)
• → Old Punjabi: ਈਮਾਨੁ (īmānu)
  • Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi: ਇਮਾਨ (imān)

    Shahmukhi: اِیمان‎ (aiymān)

• → Rohingya: iman
• → Sindhi:

  Arabic: ايِمان‎

  Devanagari: 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 (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