# ایمان
## Old Punjabi
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian ایمان (īmān), from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān). Compare Old Hindi इमांन (imā̃n).

### Noun

اِیمانُ (īmānu) m (Gurmukhi ਈਮਾਨੁ)
* faith

#### Descendants

* Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਇਮਾਨ (imān), ਈਮਾਨ (īmān)
    Shahmukhi script: اِمان (imān), اِیمان (īmān)

### Further reading

* Christopher Shackle (2011) “ایمان”, in A Gurū Nānak Glossary, 2nd edition, New Delhi: Heritage Publishers, →ISBN, page 29
* “ایمان”, in Sri Guru Granth Sahib Dictionary, SriGranth.org, 2025

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān, “faith, belief”), verbal noun of آمَنَ (ʔāmana, “to believe”).

### Noun

ایمان • (iman)
* (religion) faith, belief, creed, confidence or trust in the existence of God
    Synonym: اینان (inan)

#### Derived terms

* ایمان كتیرمك (iman getirmek, “to have faith in God”)
* ایماندار (imandar, “believing”)
* ایمانسز (imansız, “unbelieving”)

#### Descendants

* Turkish: iman
* → Albanian: iman

### Further reading

* Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “iman”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2158
* Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “îmân”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎ (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 516
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “ایمان”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 225
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Fides”, 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 572
* Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “ایمان”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎, Vienna, column 610
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “iman”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “ایمان”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 307

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān, “faith, belief”), verbal noun of آمَنَ (ʔāmana, “to believe”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ʔiː.ˈmɑːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔiː.mɑ́ːn]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [ʔiː.mɑ́ːn]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [ʔiː.mɑ́ːn]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [ʔi.mɔ́ːn]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [ʔiː.mɒ́ːn]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [ʔi.mɔ́n]
* Audio (Iran):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːn

### Noun

ایمان • (imân)
* faith
* belief, religious belief

#### Derived terms

* ایمان‌دار (imân-dâr)
* ایمان‌داری (imân-dâri)

### Proper noun

ایمان • (imân)
* a male given name, Iman, from Arabic

#### Descendants

* → Assamese: ঈমান (iman)
* → Bengali: ঈমান (iman)
* → Gujarati: ઈમાન (īmān)
* → Old Hindi: इमांन (imā̃n)
** Hindustani: īmān
    Hindi: ईमान
    Urdu: اِیمَان (īmān)
* → Maithili: imān
    Devanagari script: इमान
    Tirhuta script: 𑒃𑒧𑒰𑒢
* → Malayalam: ഈമാൻ (īmāṉ)
* → Marathi: इमान (imān)
* → Marwari: इमान (imān), ईमांन (īmā̃n)
* → Nepali: इमान (imān)
* → Odia: ଇମାନ (imāna)
* → Old Punjabi: ਈਮਾਨੁ (īmānu)
** Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਇਮਾਨ (imān), ਈਮਾਨ (īmān)
    Shahmukhi script: اِمان (imān), اِیمان (īmān)
* → Rohingya: iman
* → Sindhi:
    Arabic script: ايِمان
    Devanagari script: ईमानु
* → Tamil: ஈமான் (īmāṉ)

## Punjabi
### Alternative forms

* اِمان (īmān)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Punjabi اِیمانُ (īymānu).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /i.ˈmaː.n/

### Noun

اِیمان • (īmān) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਇਮਾਨ)
* faith, belief
* religion
* conscience, integrity, probity
* a female given name, Iman, Imaan, or Eman, from Arabic

#### Declension
### References

* Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “اِیمان”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān), borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi ایمان (ayman).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /iː.mɑːn/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑːn

### Noun

اِیمان • (īmān) m (Hindi spelling ईमान)
* faith; belief
* (Islam) creed
* honesty; truthfulness
* intention

#### Derived terms

* اِیمَانْدَار (īmāndār, “honest”)
* اِیمَانْدَارِی (īmāndārī, “honesty”)

#### See also
### References

* ↑ “ایمان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

### Further reading

* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “ايمان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 88
* Platts, John T. (1884) “ايمان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 115