قاعدة

From the verb قَعَدَ‎ (qaʕada, “to sit down, to lie in wait, to waylay”), root ق ع د‎ (q-ʕ-d).

• IPA^(key): /qaː.ʕi.da/

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قَاعِدَة • (qāʕida) f (plural قَوَاعِد‎ (qawāʕid))

1. foundation

   Synonym: أَسَاس‎ (ʔasās)

   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 16:26:

     ‏قَدْ مَكَرَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَى اللَّهُ بُنْيَانَهُم مِّنَ الْقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّقْفُ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَأَتَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ‎

     qad makara allaḏīna min qablihim faʔatā l-lahu bunyānahum mmina l-qawāʕidi faḵarra ʕalayhimu s-saqfu min fawqihim waʔatāhumu l-ʕaḏābu min ḥayṯu lā yašʕurūna

     Indeed, those before them had plotted, but Allah struck at the ˹very˺ foundation of their structure, so the roof collapsed on top of them, and the torment came upon them from where they did not expect.

2. basis

   Synonym: أَسَاس‎ (ʔasās)

3. precept, rule, principle
4. fundament
5. (military) base
6. (chemistry) base

   Synonym: قَلَوِيّ‎ (qalawiyy)

   Antonym: حَمْض‎ (ḥamḍ)

7. support, socle, pedestal
8. chassis, undercarriage
9. formula

   ‏قَاعِدَة فِيثَاغُورَس‎ ― qāʿidat fīṯāḡōras ― Pythagorean formula, Pythagorean theorem

10. method, manner
11. model, pattern

    Synonym: نَمَط‎ (namaṭ)

• → Armenian: ղայդա (łayda)
• ‌ Gulf Arabic: قاعدة‎ (qāʕida)
• → Azerbaijani: qayda
• → Bashkir: ҡағиҙә (qağiðä)
• → Hausa: ƙa'ida
• → Georgian: ყაიდა (q̇aida)
• → Kazakh: қағида (qağida), қағидат (qağidat)
• → Malay: kaidah, kaedah
  • → Indonesian: kaidah
• Maltese: qagħda
• → Ottoman Turkish: قاعده‎ (ka'ide)
  • → Turkish: kaide
• → Persian: قاعده‎ (qâ'ede) (see there for further descendants)
• → Tatar: кагыйдә (qağıydä)
• → Turkmen: kada
• → Uyghur: قائىدە‎ (qa'ide)
• → Uzbek: qoida

(via plural form قَوَاعِد‎ (qawāʕid)):

• → Persian: قواعد‎ (qavâ'ed)
  • → Gujarati: કવાયત (kavāyat)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: क़वायद (qavāyad)

    Urdu: قَواعِد‎

  • → Kannada: ಕವಾಯತು (kavāyatu)
  • → Marathi: कवाईत (kavāīt)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਕਵਾਇਦ (kavāida)

    Shahmukhi script: قَواعد‎ (qauā‘d)

  • → Sindhi:

    Arabic script: قَوَاعِدُ‎

    Devanagari script: क़वाइद

  • → Telugu: కవాతు (kavātu)
• → Swahili: kawaida

From Arabic قَاعِدَة‎ (qāʕida).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡaːʕda/ (common pronunciation for the adjective and can be used for the noun)
  • IPA^(key): [ˈqaːʕ(ɪ)da] (common pronunciation only for the noun)

قاعدة • (gāʕ(i)da) f (plural قواعد‎ (gawāʿid) or قاعدات‎ (gāʿ(i)dāt))

1. basis
2. (military) base
3. rule, principle, precept
4. (beverage) coaster
5. foundation
6. fundament

قاعدة • (gāʿda) (masculine plural قاعدين‎ (gāʿdīn), feminine plural قاعدات‎ (gāʿdāt)) (masculine singular قاعد‎ (gāʿid))

1. sitting; active participle of قَعَد‎ (gaʕad)
2. Forms a present continuous tense

   Synonym: بِـ‎ (bi)

   ‏قاعدة تلعب / بِتِلْعَب‎

   gāʿda tilʿab / bitilʿab

   she is playing

The feminine plural قاعدات‎ (gāʕdāt) is not used as an adjective, in general the masculine plural is used instead as a general plural.