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imani

US/ɪˈmɑni/

imani noun: faith (in the context of African-American culture).

Noun

imani (uncountable)

  1. faith (in the context of African-American culture)
    • 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...1983 December 30, Ron Alexander, “The Evening Hours”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 03 Jan 2022, page B7

Proper noun (1) capitalized: Imani

Imani

  1. A female given name from Swahili.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Imani

Imani (plural Imanis)

  1. A surname from Persian.

Forms of imani

pluralImanis

Origin of imani

Borrowed from Swahili imani (“faith”), borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

Borrowed from Swahili, from imani (“faith, belief”), from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān).

Borrowed from Persian ایمانی.

Questions about imani

What does imani mean?
Imani means faith (in the context of African-American culture).
What part of speech is imani?
Imani can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce imani?
Imani is pronounced /ɪˈmɑni/ (US).

Words near imani in the dictionary

  1. Imamura
  2. Imamuras
  3. iman
  4. imandrite
  5. Imane
  6. imani
  7. Imanis
  8. imanixil
  9. Imanov
  10. Imanqoli
  11. imans

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imani (page history and authors); Imani (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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