क़ायदा

See also: कायदा

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قاعده (qā'ida), from Arabic قَاعِدَة (qāʕida). Related to क़वायद (qavāyad). Compare Punjabi ਕਾਇਦਾ (kāidā) / قاعِدہ (qā‘idh), Sindhi قاعِدو / क़ाइदो, Gujarati કાયદો (kāyado), Marathi कायदा (kāydā), Kannada ಕಾಯ್ದೆ (kāyde), Odia କାଇଦା (kāidā).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /qɑːj.d̪ɑː/, [qäːj.d̪äː], /kɑːj.d̪ɑː/, [käːj.d̪äː]

Noun

क़ायदा • (qāydā) m (plural क़वायद, Urdu spelling قاعِدَہ)

1. law, rule

   Synonym: शासन (śāsan)

   क़ायदों की इज़्ज़त करनी चाहिए।

   qāydõ kī izzat karnī cāhie.

   One should respect the law.

2. custom, practice
3. regulation, rule

   Synonyms: ग्रामर (grāmar), दस्तूर (dastūr), व्याकरण (vyākraṇ), बुन्याद-ए-लिसान (bunyād-e-lisān)

4. precept

Declension

Declension of क़ायदा (masc ā-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	क़ायदा qāydā	क़ायदे qāyde
oblique	क़ायदे qāyde	क़ायदों qāydõ
vocative	क़ायदे qāyde	क़ायदो qāydo

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “क़ायदा”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press