قاعدہ

See also: قاعده‎‎ and قاعدة‎‎

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قاعده‎ (qâ'ede), 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), Oriya କାଇଦା (kaida).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /qɑːɪ.d̪ə/

Noun

قاعِدَہ • (qā‘ida) m (plural قواعد‎, Hindi spelling क़ायदा)

  1. abecedarium, primer
  2. custom, practice
  3. law, rule
  4. regulation, rule
  5. principle
  6. way, method, habit

Declension
Declension of قاعدہ
singular plural
direct قاعِدہ‎ (qā‘idah) قاعِدے‎ (qā‘ide)
oblique قاعِدے‎ (qā‘ide) قاعِدوں‎ (qā‘idõ)
vocative قاعِدے‎ (qā‘ide) قاعِدو‎ (qā‘ido)

Further reading
  • “قاعدہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “قاعِدَہ”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
  • 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.
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