مومن

Urdu

Etymology

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Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic مُؤْمِن (muʔmin)bor.

Classical Persian مُؤْمِن (mu'min)bor.

Urdu مومِن (momin)

Borrowed from Classical Persian مُؤْمِن (mu'min), borrowed from Arabic مُؤْمِن (muʔmin), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi مومن (mvmn /⁠momin⁠/).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /moː.mɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Hyphenation: مو‧مِن

Noun

مومِن • (momin) m (formal plural مومِنِین (mominīn), feminine مومِنَہ (momina), Hindi spelling मोमिन)

1. (Islam) devout Muslim, true believer

Declension

Declension of مومن
	singular	plural
direct	مومِن (momin)	مومِن (momin)
oblique	مومِن (momin)	مومِنوں (mominõ)
vocative	مومِن (momin)	مومِنو (momino)

Proper noun

مومِن • (momin) m (feminine مومِنَہ (momina), Hindi spelling मोमिन)

1. a male given name from Arabic

Descendants

• → English: Momin

Further reading

• “مومن”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “مومن”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]