iman

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

iman (countable and uncountable, plural imans)

1. (Islam, uncountable) Pious adherence to the Islamic faith.
2. (Islam, countable) A believer in the Islamic faith.

   Synonym: mu'min

iman (plural imans)

1. Archaic form of imam.

• amin, NIMA, NAMI, Main, main, mani, mnai, Mina, mina, Naim, Mani, Mian, Amin

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

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iman (definite accusative imanı, plural imanlar)

1. (Islam) faith; faithfulness; religious firmness; strength of one's faith

   Synonyms: inanma, etiqad

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “iman”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[1] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 2, Baku: Şərq-Qərb

• IPA^(key): /iman/ [i.mãn]
• Rhymes: -iman, -an
• Hyphenation: i‧man

From Spanish imán.

iman inan

1. magnet

iman anim

1. imam

• Hyphenation: i‧man

iman

1. magnet

From Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān).

• Hyphenation: i‧man

iman

1. (Islam) faith

• “iman”, in Luğatçıq (in Russian)

From Proto-Mongolic *ïmaxan cognate with Khitan 𘱑𘯺 (*êm a), related through borrowing or inheritance with Proto-Turkic *ɨmga.

Compare Mongolian ямаа (jamaa), Old Turkic 𐰢𐰍𐰀 ((a)mɣa).

• IPA^(key): /iˈmɑŋ/

iman

1. goat

   nengoude kuruchin kun ghoni iman fugie zharuzhi aye giene.

   The person who has enough financial resources will slaughter a sheep, a goat and a cow for the festival.

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iman m (plural imans)

1. alternative spelling of imam

• “iman”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

iman

1. now
2. today

Inherited from Malay iman, borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈiman/ [ˈi.man]
• Rhymes: -iman
• Syllabification: i‧man

iman (plural iman-iman)

1. faith
   1. a trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal from prior empirical evidence
   2. a conviction about abstractions, ideas, or beliefs, without empirical evidence, experience, or observation

• “iman”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

iman m (invariable)

1. imam

   Synonyms: (standard) imam, (archaic) imano

• Iman

• amni, mani, mina

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

• IPA^(key): /ˈiman/ [ˈi.man]

iman (plural iman-iman or iman²)

1. faith

• Indonesian: iman

iman

1. third-person singular possessive form of nominative of ima

iman m (plural imani)

1. alternative form of imam

• iyman

Inherited from Proto-Berber. Cognate with Kabyle and Ghadames iman (“oneself”), Awjila imàn (“self, by oneself”), Nefusa and Tamahaq imân (“self”), Tayert and Tawellemmet iṃan (“soul(s), life principle, oneself”), Tamasheq iman (“soul, spirit, life, self”), and Zenaga īmän (“soul, self”). Unrelated to Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān).

• IPA^(key): /iman/

iman m (Tifinagh spelling ⵉⵎⴰⵏ, Arabic spelling ايمان)

1. soul, spirit, mind

   راد تمضي كرايڭات يمان تامتّانت.

   ra tmḍi kra igat iman tamttant.

   every soul will taste death.

• Stroomer, Harry (2025), Dictionnaire berbère tachelḥiyt-français — Tome 2 f—l (Handbook of Oriental Studies – Handbuch der Orientalistik; 188/2) (in French), Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, →DOI, →ISBN, page 1098a

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish ایمان, borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

iman (definite accusative imanı, plural imanlar)

1. faith

• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “iman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “ایمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[2], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 307
• Robert Avery et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN