معیار
Persian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic مِعْيَار (miʕyār).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): [miʔ.ˈjɑːɾ]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [meʔ.jɒ́ːɹ]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [meʔ.jɔ́ɾ]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | mi'yār |
| Dari reading? | me'yār |
| Iranian reading? | me'yâr |
| Tajik reading? | meʾyor |
Noun edit
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian مِعْیَار (mi'yār), from Arabic مِعْيَار (miʕyār).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /mɪʕ.jɑːɾ/, /mɪʔ.jɑːɾ/, [me.jɑːɾ]
- (Punjabic Urdu) IPA(key): [mə.jɑːɾ]
- Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
- Hyphenation: مِع‧یَار
Noun edit
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)
Declension edit
| Declension of معیار | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | مِعْیَار (mi'yār) | مِعْیَار (mi'yār) |
| oblique | مِعْیَار (mi'yār) | مِعْیَاروں (mi'yārō̃) |
| vocative | مِعْیَار (mi'yār) | مِعْیَارو (mi'yārō) |
Further reading edit
- “معیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “معیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], 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