imani

Borrowed from Swahili imani (“faith”).

imani (uncountable)

1. faith (in the context of African-American culture)
   • 1983 December 30, Ron Alexander, “The Evening Hours”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 3 January 2022, page B7:

     On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.

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

• IPA^(key): /ʔíː.máː.nìː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [ʔíː.máː.nìː]

īmānī̀ m (possessed form īmānìn)

1. faith, belief (especially in Islam)

• → Nupe: imanì

imani m

1. plural of imano

• Maini, Miani, animi, minai, minia

Borrowed from Hausa īmānī̀, borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

• IPA^(key): /ī.mã̄.nĩ̀/

imanì

1. (Islam) faith; submission

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).^[1]

• (Unguja standard) IPA^(key): /iˈmɑ.ni/

• Audio (Kenya):

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imani class IX (no plural)

1. faith, belief
2. conviction (belief)

• Imani

• -amini

• → English: imani