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Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قاعده (qā'ida), from Arabic قَاعِدَة (qāʕida). Compare Hindi क़ायदा (qāydā), Punjabi ਕ਼ਾਇਦਾ (qāidā) / قاعِدَہ (qā‘idah), Sindhi قاعِدو / क़ाइदो, Gujarati કાયદો (kāyado), Marathi कायदा (kāydā), Kannada ಕಾಯ್ದೆ (kāyde), Odia କାଇଦା (kāidā).
Pronunciation
Noun
قاعِدَہ • (qā‘ida) m (formal plural قواعد (qvā'd), Hindi spelling क़ायदा)
- abecedarium, primer
- custom, practice
- law, rule
- Synonyms: وْیاکَرَن (vyākaran), گْرامَر (grāmar)
- regulation, rule
- principle
- way, method, habit
Declension
| Declension of قاعدہ
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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قاعِدَہ (qā‘idah)
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قاعِدے (qā‘ide)
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| oblique
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قاعِدے (qā‘ide)
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قاعِدوں (qā‘idõ)
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| vocative
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قاعِدے (qā‘ide)
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قاعِدو (qā‘ido)
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Further reading
- “قاعدہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “قاعِدَہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- 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.