इमांन

See also: इमान

Old Hindi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)

Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.

Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān)bor.

Old Hindi इमांन (imāṃna)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِیمَان (īmān), borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana). Compare Old Punjabi ਈਮਾਨੁ (īmānu).

Noun

इमांन (imā̃n)

1. honesty, moral integrity

Descendants

• Hindustani: īmān

  Hindi: ईमान

  Urdu: اِیمَان (īmān)

Further reading

• Jaroslav Strnad (2013) Morphology and Syntax of Old Hindī : Edition and Analysis of One Hundred Kabīr Vānī Poems From Rājasthān (Brill's Indological Library; 45), Leiden, →OCLC, page 519