Amin (name)

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Al-Amin
PronunciationArabic: [ʔamiːn]
GenderMale
Language(s)Arabic
Origin
Word/nameArabic
MeaningTruthful
Other names
Alternative spellingAmine, Ameen, Amien, ʾAmīn
Variant form(s)Al-Amin
Nickname(s)Amz
Derivedأ-م-ن (ʾ-m-n) (security)
Related namesAmina, Iman
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 Arabic female form of Amin is Amina.

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.

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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