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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic مِعْيَار (miʕyār).
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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mi'yār
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| Dari reading?
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me'yār
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| Iranian reading?
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me'yâr
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| Tajik reading?
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meʾyor
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Noun
معیار • (me'yâr) (plural معیارها (me'yâr-hâ))
- standard; criterion
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian مِعْیَار (mi'yār), from Arabic مِعْيَار (miʕyār).
Pronunciation
Noun
مِعْیَار • (mi'yār) m (formal plural مِعْیَارَات (mi'yārāt), Hindi spelling मेयार)
- standard, quality
- rule; regulation; criterion
- style; way
- touchstone; standard of measure
- scale; measure
- example; a good attribute (ie. of a person)
- Synonyms: خُوبی (xūbī), کَمال (kamāl)
Declension
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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مِعْیَار (mi'yār)
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مِعْیَار (mi'yār)
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| oblique
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مِعْیَار (mi'yār)
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مِعْیَاروں (mi'yārō̃)
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| vocative
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مِعْیَار (mi'yār)
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مِعْیَارو (mi'yārō)
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Further reading
- “معیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “معیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “معيار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 598
- Platts, John T. (1884) “معيار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1050
- John Shakespear (1834) “معیار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC