قیمہ

See also: قیمه‎

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian ‎ (qime, “ground meat, mincemeat”), likely ultimately from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish قیمه‎ (kıyma) (whence modern Turkish kıyma (“minced meat”)), Punjabi ਕ਼ੀਮਾ (qīmā) / قِیمہ‎ (qīmh), Gujarati ખીમો (khīmo), Marathi खिमा (khimā), Bengali কিমা (kima).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qiː.mɑː/

(Deccani) IPA^(key): /xiː.mɑː/
Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

قِیمَہ • (qīmā) m (Hindi spelling क़ीमा)

mincemeat, ground meat
‏قِیمَہ کَرْنَا‎ ― qīmā karnā ― to mince

Descendants

→ Burmese: ကီးမား (ki:ma:)
→ English: keema
→ Swahili: kima

References

Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “قيمہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.

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