اعتماد

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Arabic

Root
ع م د (ʕ-m-d)

Etymology

Verbal noun of اِعْتَمَدَ (iʕtamada).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimādm

  1. verbal noun of اِعْتَمَدَ (iʕtamada) (form VIII)
  2. confidence, trust, base, fundament
  3. reliance, dependence
  4. accreditation

Declension

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: etimad
  • Persian: اعتماد‎
  • Ottoman Turkish: اعتماد‎ (itimad)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād).

Noun

اعتماد (itimad) (definite accusative اعتمادی (itimadı))

  1. trust, confidence

Usage notes

  • The thing trusted or relied upon is in the dative.

Descendants

References

  • Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “itimad”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
  • Kélékian, Diran (1911) “اعتماد”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 110b

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading? i'timāḏ
Dari reading? e'timād
Iranian reading? e'temâd
Tajik reading? eʾtimod

Noun

اِعتِماد (e'temâd)

  1. trust, confidence

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād), from Arabic اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād).

Pronunciation

Noun

اِعْتِمَاد (i'timādm (Hindi spelling एतिमाद)

  1. belief
  2. confidence, trust
  3. reliance

Declension

Declension of اعتماد
singular plural
direct اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād) اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād)
oblique اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād) اِعْتِمَادوں (i'timādō̃)
vocative اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād) اِعْتِمَادو (i'timādō)

Adverb

اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād) (Hindi spelling एतिमाद)

  1. in confidence, privately

Further reading

  • اعتماد”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • اعتماد”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اعتماد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884) “اعتماد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “اِعتِماد”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 99
  • John Shakespear (1834) “اعتماد”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC