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Azerbaijani
Adjective
قدیم
- Arabic spelling of qədim
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm).
Adjective
قدیم • (kadîm) (feminine قدیمه (kadîme))
- old
- Synonym: اسكی (eski)
Descendants
Further reading
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm).
Pronunciation
| Readings
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| Classical reading?
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qaḏīm
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| Dari reading?
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qadīm
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| Iranian reading?
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ğadim
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| Tajik reading?
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qadim
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Adjective
| Dari
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قدیم
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| Iranian Persian
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| Tajik
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қадим
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قدیم • (qadim)
- old
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قدیم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قدیم (qadīm), itself from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm).
Pronunciation
Adjective
قَدِیم • (qadīm) (Hindi spelling क़दीम)
- old, ancient, antiquated, immemorial
- Synonyms: پرانا (purānā), پراچین (parācīn), سابق (sābiq)
- قدیم یونان ― qadīm yūnān ― Ancient Greece
- قدیم سنگی دور ― qadīm saṅgī daur ― Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Age
Further reading
- “قدیم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “قدیم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قدیم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.