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The word was borrowed from Hebrew into Arabic in only this context, thus it is strictly used in Arabic as a final amen to conclude supplications or to declare affirmation, and has no initial amen usage with the meaning of truly or certainly as found in the word’s original Hebrew language grammar.
The text of the Matthean Lord's Prayer in the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible ultimately derives from first Old English translations. Not considering the doxology, only five words of the KJV are later borrowings directly from the Latin Vulgate (these being debts, debtors, temptation, deliver, and amen). [1]
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Amin or Amine (Arabic: أمين, romanized: amīn), 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.
"Amen" (gospel song), a traditional song, popularized by The Impressions with their 1964 version "Amen" (Ana Soklič song), the Slovenian entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2021
The Pali word 'sādhu' is derived from the Sanskrit root 'sādh' which means 'to accomplish', 'to succeed', or 'to be efficient'. [11] [12] By adding the suffix '-u', it creates the adjective meaning 'accomplished' or 'efficient.' [13] The meaning describes someone who has succeeded in their spiritual or moral endeavors. [14]
A few books of English chant (notably Burgess and Palmer's The Plainchant Gradual) make use of oioueae for the equivalent English phrase, "world without end. Amen". According to Guinness World Records, Euouae is the longest word in the English language consisting only of vowels, and also the English word with the most consecutive vowels. [3]
As a word it has a full range of derived forms according to the standard rules of Hebrew morphology. This is quite different to 'Amen' as a word in the English language, where it is a loanword with few real derived forms (i.e. 'to amen', 'amens' and 'amening', while they make sense, are somewhat artificial nonces).