آمن

Cognate to Hebrew הֶאֱמִין (he'emín) and Aramaic הֵימֵן (hēmēn).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː.ma.na/

آمَنَ • (ʔāmana) IV (non-past يُؤْمِنُ (yuʔminu), verbal noun إِيمَان (ʔīmān))

1. to believe

   Synonym: صَدَّقَ (ṣaddaqa)

   Antonyms: كَفَرَ (kafara), كَذَّبَ (kaḏḏaba)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 28:3:

     نَتْلُوا عَلَيْكَ مِن نَّبَإِ مُوسَى وَفِرْعَوْنَ بِٱلْحَقِّ لِقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ

     natlū ʕalayka min nabaʔi mūsā wa-firʕawna bi-l-ḥaqqi li-qawmin yuʔminūna

     We recite to you from the news of Moses and Pharaoh in truth for a people who believe

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:256:

     لَا إِكْرَاهَ فِي ٱلدِّينِ قَدْ تَبَيَّنَ ٱلرُّشْدُ مِنَ ٱلْغَيِّ فَمَنْ يَكْفُرْ بِٱلطَّاغُوتِ وَيُؤْمِنْ بِٱللَّهِ فَقَدِ ٱسْتَمْسَكَ بِٱلْعُرْوَةِ ٱلْوُثْقَى لَا ٱنْفِصَامَ لَهَا وَٱللَّهُ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ

     lā ʔikrāha fī d-dīni qad tabayyana r-rušdu mina l-ḡayyi fa-man yakfur bi-ṭ-ṭāḡūti wa-yuʔmin bi-llahi fa-qadi stamsaka bi-l-ʕurwati l-wuṯqā lā nfiṣāma lahā wa-llahu samīʕun ʕalīmun

     There shall be no compulsion in the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing.

• مُؤْمِن (muʔmin)

Derived from the active participle of the verbs أَمِنَ (ʔamina, “to be safe”), أَمُنَ (ʔamuna, “to be trustworthy”).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː.min/

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آمِن • (ʔāmin) (feminine آمِنَة (ʔāmina))

1. safe, secure
2. trustworthy

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː.man/

آمَن • (ʔāman)

1. elative degree of أَمُنَ (ʔamuna) and أَمِنَ (ʔamina)

• Lane, Edward William (1863) “آمن”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “آمن”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “ءمن”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

آمن (form I)

1. آمُنُ (ʔāmunu) /ʔaː.mu.nu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of أَمُنَ (ʔamuna)
2. آمُنَ (ʔāmuna) /ʔaː.mu.na/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of أَمُنَ (ʔamuna)
3. آمُنْ (ʔāmun) /ʔaː.mun/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of أَمُنَ (ʔamuna)
4. آمَنُ (ʔāmanu) /ʔaː.ma.nu/: first-person singular non-past active indicative of أَمِنَ (ʔamina)
5. آمَنَ (ʔāmana) /ʔaː.ma.na/: first-person singular non-past active subjunctive of أَمِنَ (ʔamina)
6. آمَنْ (ʔāman) /ʔaː.man/: first-person singular non-past active jussive of أَمِنَ (ʔamina)

From Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana). The contracted fourth stem was reinterpreted as a regular third stem.

آمن • (ʾāman) (nonpast يآمن (yʾāmin))

1. to believe, to have faith (optionally with بِـ (b-, “in”))

Learned borrowing from Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana).

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː.man/,

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آمن • (ʔāman) III (present بآمن (biʔāmen))

1. to believe, to have faith