iman

American  

[ee-mahn] / ˈi mɑn /

Or Iman

noun

1. Islam. inward faith or belief in Islam.

   I have known many of these young Muslims, and I bear witness that I find strength in their iman, firmness in their convictions, truth in their words, and sincerity in their work.

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Etymology

Origin of iman

From Arabic ʾīmān “faith, belief, recognition,” from ʾāmana “have faith, believe, recognize”

Example Sentences

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iman

Oussama Elsaadi, an iman with a mosque in Denmark‘s second-largest city Aarhus, told the B.T. newspaper that it’s “a good message to all Muslims.”

From Washington Times ● Dec. 8, 2023

Morning prayer had always been dearest to her and she knelt and touched her forehead to the night-cooled ground and listened to the iman call the whole world into being.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 8, 2018

I E -ma, -mana, -man formed adjectives, present participles and nouns; I E akman stone of ak, A S iman; Dak imni stone.

From The Dakotan Languages, and Their Relations to Other Languages by A. W. (Andrew Woods) Williamson

An iman is the principal priest of a mosque.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by William Beckford

The whole divan, one swimming circle glides     Swift without stop: the old bashaws click time,     As if on polish'd ice; in trance sublime     The iman hoar with some spruce courtier slides.

From Legends of the Middle Ages Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber