क़ीमा
Hindi edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Classical Persian قیمه (qīma, “ground meat, mincemeat”), likely ultimately from Turkic; compare Ottoman Turkish قیمه (kıyma) (whence modern Turkish kıyma (“minced meat”)), Punjabi ਕ਼ੀਮਾ (qīmā) / قِیمہ (qīmh), Gujarati ખીમો (khīmo), Marathi खिमा (khimā), Bengali কিমা (kima).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
क़ीमा • (qīmā) m (Urdu spelling قِیمَہ)
Declension edit
Declension of क़ीमा (masc ā-stem)
Descendants edit
References edit
- McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “क़ीमा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press