قاعدہ

See also: قاعده‎‎ and قاعدة‎‎

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قاعده‎ (qâ'ede), from Arabic قَاعِدَة‎ (qāʿida). 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], 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.