How to say "amen" in Arabic
LoanwordMeaningamen
Arabic · Modern Standard Arabic
آمِين
āmīnאמין
آمين
Hebrew · Modern Hebrew
אמן
amenأَمِن
How the two words are related
Loanword
Borrowed between the languages (or by both from a third).
Āmīn is Hebrew אמן, borrowed essentially unchanged into Christian and then Islamic prayer — the same 'so be it' said after Al-Fatiha as after any Hebrew blessing, both ultimately built on ʾ-m-n, 'to be firm, trustworthy.'
Related Hebrew word:אמןamenأَمِن
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In a phrase
قَالَ آمِين بَعْدَ الدُّعَاء
qāla āmīn baʿda ad-duʿāʾקאל אמין בעד א-דעאאhe said amen after the supplication