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Amin (name)

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Amin
PronunciationArabic: [ʔamiːn]
GenderMale
Language(s)Arabic
Other gender
FeminineAmina
Origin
Word/nameArabic
MeaningTruthful
Other names
Alternative spellingAmine, Ameen, Amien, ʾAmīn
Variant form(s)
Nickname(s)Amz
Derivedأ-م-ن (ʾ-m-n) (security)
Related namesIman
Popularitysee popular names

Amin or Amine (Arabic: أمين, romanizedamīn), cognate to amen (Arabic: آمين, ʾāmīn), is an Arabic male given name, meaning "devoted, honest, straightforward, trusty, worth of belief (believable), loyal, faithful, obedient".

The name has been loaned into a few other languages, namely ones spoken by Muslim populations. In Persian (امین‌, amīn) it has the same meaning. The Turkish written form of the name is Emin.

In the Balkans, Amin is popular among Bosniaks in the former Yugoslav nations. It is also popular among Albanians. The name is a modification to the name Emin. This region also has a female equivalent to the name: Amina (for example, Amina Kajtaz).

Other spellings include Ameen and Amien.

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  • Al-Amin (787–813), also known as Abū Mūsā Muḥammad ibn Hārūn al-Rashīd, better known by his regnal name Al-Amin, the sixth Abbasid Caliph, ruling from 809 until 813

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  • Mohammad Amin al-Husayni (c. 1897–1974), Mufti of Jerusalem
  • Mohamed Amin Didi (1910–1954), president of the Maldives from 1953 to 1954
  • Sami Amin Al-Arian (born 1958), Palestinian political activist, computer engineering professor in the United States, convicted of aiding a terrorist organization

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Amine

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