قاعدہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian قاعده (qā'ida), from Arabic قَاعِدَة (qāʕida). Compare Hindi क़ायदा (qāydā), Punjabi ਕ਼ਾਇਦਾ (qāidā) / قاعِدَہ (qā‘idah), Sindhi قاعِدو / क़ाइदो, Gujarati કાયદો (kāyado), Marathi कायदा (kāydā), Kannada ಕಾಯ್ದೆ (kāyde), Odia କାଇଦା (kaida).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɑː.ɪ.d̪ɑ(ː)/

قاعِدَہ • (qā‘ida) m (formal plural قواعد (qvā'd), Hindi spelling क़ायदा)

1. abecedarium, primer
2. custom, practice
3. law, rule

   Synonyms: وْیاکَرَن (vyākaran), گْرامَر (grāmar)

4. regulation, rule
5. principle
6. way, method, habit

• “قاعدہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قاعِدَہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• 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.