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Etymology edit

From Malay kaidah (Standard Malay kaédah), from Arabic قَاعِدَة (qāʕida).

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [kaˈidah]
  • Hyphenation: ka‧i‧dah

Noun edit

kaidah (plural kaidah-kaidah, first-person possessive kaidahku, second-person possessive kaidahmu, third-person possessive kaidahnya)

  1. rule:
    1. (biology, chemistry, economics, linguistics, physics) A regulation, law, guideline.
    2. (mathematics) A determinate method prescribed for performing any operation and producing a certain result.
  2. (medicine) method
  3. (philosophy) maxim

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