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إِِيمَانٌ أيم أيمان إِيمان ايمان يمين [inf. n. of 4, q. v. ― -b2- Used as a simple subst., Belief; particularly in God, and in his word and apostles &c.: faith: trust, or confidence: &c.] ― -b3- Sometimes it means Prayer; syn. صَلَاةٌ: as in the Kur [ii. 138], where it is said, وَمَا كَانَ اللّٰهُ لِيُضِيعَ إِِيَمانَكُمْ, (Bd, Jel, TA,) i. e. [God will not make to be lost] your prayer towards Jerusalem, (Bd, * Jel,) as some explain it. (Bd.) ― -b4- Sometimes, also, it is used as meaning The law brought by the Prophet. (Er-Rághib, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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