امانت

Azerbaijani

Noun

امانت

1. Arabic spelling of əmanət

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna, “trust, reliability; deposit”).

Noun

امانت • (emânet) (definite accusative امانتی (emâneti), plural امانتلر (emânetler))

1. trustworthiness, dependability, reliability, the quality of being reliable, dependable, or trustworthy
2. trust, charge, that which is committed or entrusted, something given or received in confidence
3. trusteeship, the office or function of a trustee, to whom property is legally committed in trust

Derived terms

• امانةً (emâneten, “on deposit”)
• امانت ایتمك (emânet etmek, “to trust, rely on”)
• امانت براقمق (emânet bırakmak, “to leave on deposit”)
• امانتجی (emânetci, “depositary, trustee”)
• امانتدار (emânetdar, “depositary, trustee”)
• امانتكار (emânetkar, “trustworthy”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: emanet
• → Albanian: amanet
• → Macedonian: аманет (amanet)
• → Romanian: amanet
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: аманет

  Latin script: amanet

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “emanet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1427
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “emânet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 258
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “امانت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 142
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Securitas”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1530
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “امانت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 411
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “emanet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “امانت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 194

Pashto

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna).

Noun

امانت • (amānát) m

1. deposit

Persian

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic أَمُنَ (ʔamuna)

Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna)bor.

Persian امانت

Borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna), from أَمُنَ (ʔamuna).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [ʔa.mɑː.ˈnat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɑː.nǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɑː.nǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɑː.nǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɔː.nǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔæ.mɒː.nǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [ʔä.mɔ.nǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	amānat
Dari reading?	amānat
Iranian reading?	amânat
Tajik reading?	amonat

Noun

Dari	امانت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	амонат

امانت • (amânat)

1. trustworthiness
2. deposit

Descendants

• → Bengali: আমানত (amanot)
• → Classical Malay: امانت
  • Malay: amanat
    • Indonesian: amanat
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: अमानत (amānat)

  Urdu: امانت (amānat)

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਅਮਾਨਤ (amānat)

  Shahmukhi script: امانت (amānat)

• → Sindhi: امانت

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “امانت”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Sindhi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian امانت (amānat), from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna).

Noun

اَمانَتَ • (amānata) f (Devanagari अमानत)

1. deposit

Further reading

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “اَمانَتَ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “امانت”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic أَمُنَ (ʔamuna)

Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna)bor.

Classical Persian اَمَانَت (amānat)bor.

Urdu اَمَانَت (amānat)

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَمَانَت (amānat), borrowed from Arabic أَمَانَة (ʔamāna), from أَمُنَ (ʔamuna).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /ə.mɑː.nət̪/
• Rhymes: -ət̪
• Hyphenation: اَ‧ما‧نَت

Noun

اَمانَت • (amānat) f (Hindi spelling अमानत)

1. trust; deposit or possession entrusted to someone for safekeeping.
2. (by extension) lost and found
3. a trust (fund setup for a beneficiary)

   Synonym: اَمانَت خانَہ (amānat xāna)

4. (chiefly historical) trusteeship; the office / department of an amin – trustee.
5. (religion) divine faith as revealed by God to man with which one can attain His abode
6. (literally) honesty; integrity; trustworthiness

   Synonyms: اِیمان (īmān), اِیمان داری (īmān dārī), دِیانَت داری (diyānat dārī)

7. safety; security

Declension

Declension of امانت
	singular	plural
direct	اَمانَت (amānat)	اَمانَتیں (amānatẽ)
oblique	اَمانَت (amānat)	اَمانَتوں (amānatõ)
vocative	اَمانَت (amānat)	اَمانَتو (amānato)

Derived terms

Derived terms

• اَمانَت دار (amānat dār)
• اَمانَت خانَہ (amānat xāna)
• اَمانَتِ جاری (amānat-i jārī)
• اَمانَت رَکھْنا (amānat rakhnā)

See also

Urdu terms derived from the Arabic root ء م ن (0 c, 5 e)

Further reading

More information

• “امانت”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “امانت”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “امانت”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “امانت”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “امانت”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “امانت”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC