क़ीमा

Hindi

Etymology

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

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /qiː.mɑː/, [qiː.mäː], /kiː.mɑː/, [kiː.mäː]

Noun

क़ीमा • (qīmā) m (Urdu spelling قِیمَہ)

1. keema, mincemeat

   क़ीमा करना ― qīmā karnā ― to mince

Declension

Declension of क़ीमा (masc ā-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	क़ीमा qīmā	क़ीमे qīme
oblique	क़ीमे qīme	क़ीमों qīmõ
vocative	क़ीमे qīme	क़ीमो qīmo

Descendants

• → Burmese: ကီးမား (ki:ma:)
• → English: keema
• → Swahili: kima

References

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