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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr), verbal noun of قَدَّرَ (qaddara, “to determine, estimate, assess”).
Pronunciation
Noun
تقدیر • (takdir)
- prearrangement, the act of arranging or condition of being arranged beforehand
- estimate, appraisal, a rough calculation or assessment of the value of something
- appreciation, a fair valuation or recognition of excellence, merit or worth
- supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, guess, a still unproven statement or idea
- (religion) predestination, foreordination, the doctrine that all events have been willed by God
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Descendants
Further reading
- Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “takdir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4550
- Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “takdîr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1227
- Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تقدیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 389
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Destinatio”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 367
- Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “تقدیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1308
- Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “takdir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تقدیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 576
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr).
Pronunciation
Readings
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Classical reading?
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taqdīr
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Dari reading?
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taqdīr
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Iranian reading?
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tağdir
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Tajik reading?
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taqdir
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Noun
Dari
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تقدیر
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Iranian Persian
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Tajik
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тақдир
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تقدیر • (taqdir) (plural تقدیرها (taqdir-hâ))
- fate, destiny, predestination
c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:سوم روز احمد ارسلان گفت: زندگانی خداوند دراز باد، آنچه تقدیر است ناچار بباشد، در غمناک بودن بس فایده نیست.- siwum rōz ahmad-i arslān guft: zindagānī-yi xudāwand darāz bād, ānči taqdīr ast nāčār bibāšad, dar ğamnāk budan bas fāyida nēst.
- On the third day, Ahmad Arslān said: "May my lord's life be long! What is preordained is unavoidable. There is no use in being sad any longer."
- approval, appreciation
- قابل تقدیر ― qâbel-e taqdir ― appreciable
- appreciation, evaluation, measurement
1611, ʿAbd al-Sattār ibn Qāsim Lāhōrī, مجالس جهانگیری [Majālis-i Jahāngīrī]:اگر بر تقدیر معقولیت میفرمایید پس باطلترین و نجسترین و گندهترین دینها پیش من دین ایشان است بلكه دین هنود نزد من از دین ایشان بهتر!- agar bar taqdīr-i ma'quliyat mē-farmāyēd pas bātiltarīn u najistarīn u gandatarīn-i dīn-hā pēš-i man dīn-i ēšān ast balki dīn-i hunūd nazd-i man az dīn-i ēšān bihtar!
- If you assess it based on plausibility, then my view is that the absurdest, the impurest, and the dirtiest of religions is theirs: I think the religion of the Hindus is better than theirs!
Derived terms
Further reading
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian تَقْدِیر (taqdīr), from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr).
Pronunciation
Noun
تَقْدِیر • (taqdīr) f (Hindi spelling तक़दीर)
- fate
- destiny
- predestination
Descendants
References
- Platts, John T. (1884) “تقدير”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تقدير”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.