ईमान

Hindi

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Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.

Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān)bor.

Hindi ईमान (īmān)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān), borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). First attested as Old Hindi इमांन (imā̃n).

Compare Assamese ঈমান (iman), Bengali ঈমান (iman), Gujarati ઈમાન (īmān), Marathi इमान (imān), Odia ଇମାନ (imāna), Punjabi ਇਮਾਨ (imān), Tamil ஈமான் (īmāṉ).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /iː.mɑːn/, [iː.mä̃ːn]

Noun

ईमान • (īmān) m (Urdu spelling اِیمَان)

1. belief, faith
2. honesty, conscience

Declension

Declension of ईमान (masc cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	ईमान īmān	ईमान īmān
oblique	ईमान īmān	ईमानों īmānõ
vocative	ईमान īmān	ईमानो īmāno

Derived terms

• ईमानदार (īmāndār)
• ईमानदारी (īmāndārī)

Further reading

• Bahri, Hardev (1989) “ईमान”, in Siksarthi Hindi-Angrejhi Sabdakosa [Learners' Hindi-English Dictionary], Delhi: Rajpal & Sons, page 57.
• Caturvedi, Mahendra, Bhola Nath Tiwari (1970) “ईमान”, in A practical Hindi-English dictionary, Delhi: National Publishing House
• Dāsa, Śyāmasundara (1965–1975) “ईमान”, in Hindī Śabdasāgara [lit. Sea of Hindi words] (in Hindi), Kashi [Varanasi]: Nagari Pracarini Sabha, page 527
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “ईमान”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press, page 110
• Platts, John T. (1884) “ايمان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 115