اعتماد

Arabic

Root
ع م د (ʕ m d)
15 terms

Etymology

Verbal noun of اِعْتَمَدَ (iʕtamada).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /iʕ.ti.maːd/

Noun

اِعْتِمَاد • (iʕtimādm

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

Declension

Declension of noun اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād)
singular basic singular triptote
indefinite definite construct
informal اِعْتِمَاد
iʕtimād
الِاعْتِمَاد
al-iʕtimād
اِعْتِمَاد
iʕtimād
nominative اِعْتِمَادٌ
iʕtimādun
الِاعْتِمَادُ
al-iʕtimādu
اِعْتِمَادُ
iʕtimādu
accusative اِعْتِمَادًا
iʕtimādan
الِاعْتِمَادَ
al-iʕtimāda
اِعْتِمَادَ
iʕtimāda
genitive اِعْتِمَادٍ
iʕtimādin
الِاعْتِمَادِ
al-iʕtimādi
اِعْتِمَادِ
iʕtimādi

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: etimad
  • Persian: اعتماد
  • Ottoman Turkish: اعتماد (itimad)
  • Turkmen: ygtymаt
  • Uyghur: ئېتىماد (ëtimad)
  • Uzbek: eʼtimod

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[1] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 110b

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic اِعْتِمَاد (iʕtimād).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [ʔe̞ʔ.t̪ʰɪ.mɑːd̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [ʔeː.t̪ʰɪ.mɑːd̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [ʔeː.t̪ʰi.mɔːd̪̥]

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

Noun

اعتماد • (i'timād / e'temâd) (Tajik spelling эътимод)

  1. trust, confidence

Derived terms

Urdu

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /ɪʔ.t̪ɪ.mɑːd̪/, [e(ʔ).t̪ɪ.mɑːd̪], [e(ʔ).t̪e.mɑːd̪]
  • (Punjabic Urdu) IPA(key): [ɛːt̪.mɑːd̪]
  • Rhymes: -ɑːd̪
  • Hyphenation: اِع‧تِ‧ماد

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'timādõ)
vocative اِعْتِمَاد (i'timād) اِعْتِمَادو (i'timādo)

Adverb

اِعْتِمَاد • (i'timād) (Hindi spelling एतिमाद)

  1. in confidence, privately (+ میں (mẽ))

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 [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اعتماد”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “اعتماد”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • 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