قاعدہ
See also: قاعده and قاعدة
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian قاعده (qâ'ede), from Arabic قَاعِدَة (qāʿida). Compare Hindi क़ायदा (qāydā), Punjabi ਕ਼ਾਇਦਾ (qāidā) / قاعِدَہ (qā‘idah), Sindhi قاعِدو / क़ाइदो, Gujarati કાયદો (kāyado), Marathi कायदा (kāydā), Kannada ಕಾಯ್ದೆ (kāyde), Oriya କାଇଦା (kaida).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /qɑːɪ.d̪ə/
Noun
قاعِدَہ • (qā‘ida) m (plural قواعد, Hindi spelling क़ायदा)
- abecedarium, primer
- custom, practice
- law, rule
- regulation, rule
- principle
- way, method, habit
Declension
| Declension of قاعدہ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | قاعِدہ (qā‘idah) | قاعِدے (qā‘ide) |
| oblique | قاعِدے (qā‘ide) | قاعِدوں (qā‘idõ) |
| vocative | قاعِدے (qā‘ide) | قاعِدو (qā‘ido) |
Further reading
- “قاعدہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “قاعِدَہ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قاعده”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884), “قاعده”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.