imani

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. faith (in the context of African-American culture) uncountable
    — On Tuesday night at the Club Serene in Brooklyn, Mayor Koch proclaimed Kwanzaa Week in New York. Then he told the crowd of about 400 that he had practiced his Swahili in order to pronounce correctly such exotic-sounding words as kujichagulia (self-determination), ujamaa (cooperative economics) and imani (faith), the theme of Kwanzaa '83.

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Arabic آمَنَ (ʔāmana)
Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān)bor.
Swahili imanibor.
English imani
Borrowed from Swahili imani (“faith”), borrowed from Arabic إِيمَان (ʔīmān), from آمَنَ (ʔāmana).
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