Meaning of imani | Babel Free

Definitions

1. faith (in the context of African-American culture)
   uncountable
2. A female given name from Swahili.
3. A surname from Persian.

Equivalents

Examples

“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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