قاعدہ

See also: قاعده and قاعدة

Urdu

Etymology

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 (kāidā).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

قاعِدَہ • (qā‘ida) m (formal plural قَواعِد (qavā'id), 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	قاعِدَہ (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 (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “qaa'ida”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• 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.