# امانت
## Azerbaijani
### Noun

امانت
* Arabic spelling of əmanət

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna, “trust, reliability; deposit”).

### Noun

امانت • (emânet) (definite accusative امانتی (emâneti), plural امانتلر (emânetler))
* trustworthiness, dependability, reliability, the quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy
* trust, charge, that which is committed or entrusted, something given or received in confidence
* trusteeship, the office or function of a trustee, to whom property is legally committed in trust

#### Derived terms

* امانةً (emâneten, “on deposit”)
* امانت ایتمك (emânet etmek, “to trust, rely on”)
* امانت براقمق (emânet bırakmak, “to leave on deposit”)
* امانتجی (emânetci, “depositary, trustee”)
* امانتدار (emânetdar, “depositary, trustee”)
* امانتكار (emânetkar, “trustworthy”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: emanet
* → Albanian: amanet
* → Macedonian: аманет (amanet)
* → Romanian: amanet
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: аманет
    Latin script: amanet

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “emanet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1427
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “emânet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 258
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “امانت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 142
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securitas”, 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, Vienna, column 1530
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “امانت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 411
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “emanet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “امانت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 194

## Pashto
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna).

### Noun

امانت • (amānát) m
* deposit

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna), from أَمُنَ (ʔamuna).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔa.mɑː.ˈnat]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔä.mɑː.nǽt̪]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔä.mɑː.nǽt̪]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔä.mɑː.nǽt̪]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔä.mɔː.nǽt̪]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔæ.mɒː.nǽt̪]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔä.mɔ.nǽt̪]

### Noun

| Dari | امانت |
| Iranian Persian | امانت |
| Tajik | амонат |
امانت • (amânat)
* trustworthiness
* deposit

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: আমানত (amanot)
* → Classical Malay: امانت
** Malay: amanat
*** Indonesian: amanat
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: अमानत (amānat)
    Urdu: امانت (amānat)
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਅਮਾਨਤ (amānat)
    Shahmukhi script: امانت (amānat)
* → Sindhi: امانت

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “امانت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## Sindhi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian امانت (amānat), from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna).

### Noun

اَمانَتَ • (amānata) f (Devanagari अमानत)
* deposit

### Further reading

* Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “اَمانَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
* “امانت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَمَانَت (amānat), borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna), from أَمُنَ (ʔamuna).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /ə.mɑː.nət̪/
* Rhymes: -ət̪
* Hyphenation: اَ‧ما‧نَت

### Noun

اَمانَت • (amānat) f (Hindi spelling अमानत)
* trust; deposit or possession entrusted to someone for safekeeping.
* (by extension) lost and found
* a trust (fund setup for a beneficiary)
    Synonym: اَمانَت خانَہ (amānat xāna)
* (chiefly historical) trusteeship; the office / department of an amin – trustee.
* (religion) divine faith as revealed by God to man with which one can attain His abode
* (literally) honesty; integrity; trustworthiness
    Synonyms: اِیمان (īmān), اِیمان داری (īmān dārī), دِیانَت داری (diyānat dārī)
* safety; security

#### Derived terms

* اَمانَت خانَہ (amānat xāna)
* اَمانَت دار (amānat dār)
* اَمانَت رَکھْنا (amānat rakhnā)
* اَمانَتِ جاری (amānat-i jārī)

#### See also
### Further reading

* “امانت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “امانت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “امانت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
* Platts, John T. (1884) “امانت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
* S. W. Fallon (1879) “امانت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
* John Shakespear (1834) “امانت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC