قیمت

Old Anatolian Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قیمت (qeymat), from Arabic قِيمَة (qīma).

Noun

قِیْمَتْ (qıymät, qiymät)

1. value, worth, valor

   Synonyms: دَكَرْ (dägär), بَهَا (bahā)

2. price, cost

Descendants

• Azerbaijani: qiymət
• Gagauz: kıymet
• Ottoman Turkish: قیمت (kıymet)
  • Turkish: kıymet
  • → Armenian: խըյմէթ (xəymētʻ)

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قِیْمَتْ (qiymät) , which was borrowed from Persian قیمت (qeymat) , further borrowed from Arabic قِيمَة (qīma, “value, worth; price”).

Noun

قیمت • (kıymet) (definite accusative قیمتی (kıymeti), plural قیم (kıyem))

1. value, worth, the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable

   Synonym: دكر (değer)

2. price, cost, the amount of money required or necessary to gain possession of something

   Synonyms: بدل (bedel), بها (baha), فیات (fiyât)

3. (finance) market value, the price which a seller or insurer might reasonably expect to fetch

Derived terms

• قیمت حقیقیه (kıymet-i hakikiye, “fair market value”)
• قیمت رایجه (kıymet-i râyice, “current value”)
• قیمتسز (kıymetsiz, “worthless, valueless”)
• قیمتلندرمك (kıymetlendirmek, “to make or let become valuable”)
• قیمتلنمك (kıymetlenmek, “to become valuable”)
• قیمتلو (kıymetli, “valuable, worthy”)
• قیمتینی بلمك (kıymetini bilmek, “to know the value of a person”)

 

Descendants

• Turkish: kıymet
• → Armenian: խըյմէթ (xəymētʻ)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kıymet”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2653
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kıymet”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 620
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قیمت”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2], Constantinople: Mihran, page 1001
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Valor”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1715
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قیمت”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 3827
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kıymet”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قیمت”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1509

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيمَة (qīma).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [qiː.ˈmat]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qiː.mǽt̪]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [qiː.mǽt̪]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [qiː.mǽt̪]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [qi.mǽt̪]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [qej.mǽt̪]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [qi.mǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading?	qīmat
Dari reading?	qīmat
Iranian reading?	ğeymat
Tajik reading?	qimat

• Audio (Iran):

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Noun

Dari	قیمت
Iranian Persian
Tajik	қимат

قیمت • (qeymat) (plural قیمت‌ها (qeymat-hâ))

1. price

   Synonyms: (less common) بها (bahâ), (less common, standard in Tajik) نرخ (nerx)

   قِیْمَتِ دُلار ― ğeymat-e dolâr ― price of the dollar

   قِیْمَتِ مَسْکَن دَر تِهْران ― ğeymat-e maskan dar tehrân ― housing prices in Tehran

   • late 1100s, Khāqānī, “Ghazal 55”, in دیوان خاقانی‎^[6]:

     بی‌دلی را که دمی با تو مهیا گردد
     قیمت هر دو جهان نیمهٔ آن یک‌دم نیست

     bē dilī rā ki damē bā tu muhayya gardad
     qīmat-i har du jahān nīma-yi ān yak dam nēst

     For the lovesick one who spends a single moment with you,
     The price of both worlds [this world and the afterlife] is not [worth] half that moment.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

• قیمتی (qimati, “costly, valuable”)

 

Descendants

• → Bashkir: ҡиммәт (qimmət), ҡыйбат (qıybat)
• → Gujarati: કિંમત (kimmat)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़ीमत (qīmat)

  Urdu: قِیمَت (qīmat)

• → Kazakh: қымбат (qymbat)
• → Marathi: किंमत (kimmat)
• → Middle Armenian: ղիմաթ (ġimatʻ)
• → Old Anatolian Turkish: قِیْمَتْ (qıymät, qiymät)
  • Azerbaijani: qiymət
  • Gagauz: kıymet
  • Ottoman Turkish: قیمت (kıymet)
    • Turkish: kıymet
    • → Armenian: խըյմէթ (xəymētʻ)
• → Punjabi:
  • Gurmukhi script: ਕ਼ੀਮਤ (qīmat)
  • Shahmukhi script: قِیمَت (qīmat)
• → Rohingya: kimot
• → Uyghur: قىممەت (qimmet)
• → Uzbek: qimmat

Adjective

قیمت • (qimat)

1. (Dari) expensive

See also

• هزینه (hazine, “cost”)

 

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قِیمَت (qīmat), from Arabic قِيمَة (qīma).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qiː.mət̪/

Noun

قِیمَت • (qīmat) f (Hindi spelling क़ीमत)

1. price
2. value
3. worth

Related terms

• قِیمتی (qīmtī)