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, 2nd 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)

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Pakistan):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɑːn

Noun

اِیمان • (īmān) m (Hindi spelling ईमान)

1. belief
2. faith

   Synonyms: وِشْواس (viśvās), آسْتھا (āsthā)

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