क़ीमा
Hindi
Etymology
Borrowed from Persian قیمه (qime, “ground meat, mincemeat”), likely ultimately from Turkic; compare Ottoman Turkish قیمه (kıyma) (whence modern Turkish kıyma (“minced meat”)), Punjabi ਕ਼ੀਮਾ (qīmā) / قِیمہ (qīmh), Gujarati ખીમો (khīmo), Marathi खिमा (khimā), Bengali কিমা (kima).
Pronunciation
- (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /qiː.mɑː/, [qiː.mäː], /kiː.mɑː/, [kiː.mäː]
Noun
क़ीमा • (qīmā) m (Urdu spelling قِیمَہ)
- keema, mincemeat
- क़ीमा करना ― qīmā karnā ― to mince
Declension
Declension of क़ीमा (masc ā-stem)
singular | plural | |
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direct | क़ीमा qīmā | क़ीमे qīme |
oblique | क़ीमे qīme | क़ीमों qīmõ |
vocative | क़ीमे qīme | क़ीमो qīmo |
Descendants
- → Burmese: ကီးမား (ki:ma:)
- → English: keema
- → Swahili: kima
References
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “क़ीमा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press