قدیم

See also: قديم

Azerbaijani

Adjective

قدیم

1. Arabic spelling of qədim

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm).

Adjective

قدیم • (kadîm) (feminine قدیمه (kadîme))

1. old

   Synonym: اسكی (eski)

Descendants

• Turkish: kadim

Further reading

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قدیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1440

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qa.ˈðiːm]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.d̪íːm]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.d̪íːm]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qä.d̪íːm]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qä.d̪ím]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qæ.d̪íːm]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qä.d̪ím]

Readings
Classical reading?	qaḏīm
Dari reading?	qadīm
Iranian reading?	ğadim
Tajik reading?	qadim

Adjective

Dari	قدیم
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қадим

قدیم • (qadim)

1. old

Further reading

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قدیم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قدیم (qadīm), itself from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qə.d̪iːm/
• Rhymes: -iːm
• Hyphenation: قَ‧دِیم

Adjective

قَدِیم • (qadīm) (Hindi spelling क़दीम)

1. old, ancient, antiquated, immemorial

   Synonyms: پرانا (purānā), پراچین (parācīn), سابق (sābiq)

   قدیم یونان ― qadīm yūnān ― Ancient Greece

   قدیم سنگی دور ― qadīm saṅgī daur ― Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Age

Further reading

• “قدیم”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قدیم”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قدیم”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.