Arabic vocabulary
عِمْرَانImran in Arabic
عِمْرَان is how you say “Imran” in Arabic. Hear it pronounced and see it used in real example sentences from classical texts below.
Root ع م ر (ʿ-m-r)proper noun (masculine given name)Pronounced ʿimrān
Meaning of Imran in Arabic
- Imran (a masculine personal name) — a proper name built on this root; it does not carry an independent common-noun meaning of its own in the lexicon
ʿImrān is used as a personal name (English "Imran"); it belongs to the ع م ر word family, whose other members center on a long life span (ʿumr) and on a place becoming inhabited, built up, or kept in a flourishing state (ʿimāra, ʿumrān, ʿāmir). As a name it functions as a label rather than carrying that common-noun sense directly.
Words from the same root
- عُمْرٌlife, lifetime (from 'he lived long')
- عَمَّرَto prolong or lengthen a person's life
- عِمَارَةٌbuilding up; keeping a place inhabited or in good repair
- عُمْرَانٌthe state of being inhabited, well-peopled, flourishing
- عَامِرٌinhabited, flourishing, populated (active participle)
Common questions
- How do you say "Imran" in Arabic?
- عِمْرَان (ʿimrān).
- What root does the name Imran come from?
- It comes from the root ع م ر (ʿ-m-r), whose other derived words relate to a long life (ʿumr) and to a place becoming inhabited or flourishing (ʿumrān, ʿimāra, ʿāmir).
Definitions synthesised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).
Example sentences
وَإِن تعلق أَمر الدّين بِهِ كَقَوْلِه تَعَالَى آل عمرَان وَلَا تهنوا وَلَا تحزنوا وَأَنْتُم الأعلون إِن كُنْتُم مُؤمنين
And if the matter of religion relates to it, as in His saying in Al-Imran: 'Do not weaken and do not grieve, for you will be superior if you are believers.'
عِمْرَانَ — Imran. Second part of the chapter name, 'Imran', completing 'Family of Imran'. As a foreign personal name it does not take the usual indefinite ending; it sits in the owned position naming the chapter.
From: Patience in Hard Times →أَنشَدَ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عِمْرَانَ التَّمِيمِيُّ قَاضِيُ الْمَدِينَةِ
Muhammad ibn Imran al-Tamimi, the judge of the city, recited.
عِمْرَانَ — Imran. The father's name closing the 'son of...' pairing as its owner, so it takes the genitive 'of' ending that fuses the lineage tag together. The case is set by its slot in the name chain, not by the wider sentence.
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