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iman

iman noun: pious adherence to the Islamic faith. Also the archaic form of imam.

Noun

iman (countable and uncountable, plural imans)

  1. (uncountable) Pious adherence to the Islamic faith.
  2. (countable) A believer in the Islamic faith.
    Synonyms:
    mu'min

Proper noun capitalized: Iman

Iman (plural Imans)

  1. A surname from Arabic.
  2. A unisex given name from Arabic.

Also used as

iman is also the archaic form of imam.

Synonyms of iman

Forms of iman

Noun
pluralimans
Proper noun
pluralImans

Origin of iman

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

See iman.

Questions about iman

What does iman mean?
Iman means pious adherence to the Islamic faith.
What part of speech is iman?
Iman can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of iman?
The plural of iman is imans.

Words near iman in the dictionary

  1. imams
  2. imamship
  3. imamships
  4. Imamura
  5. Imamuras
  6. iman
  7. imandrite
  8. Imane
  9. imani
  10. Imanis
  11. imanixil

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: iman (page history and authors); Iman (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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