اینقدر

Persian

Alternative forms

  • این‌قدر (in-qadr), این قدر (in qadr)
  • اینقذر (inqazar) (dialectal, Hamadan)
  • ایقه (īqa) (dialectal Kabuli, Hazaragi)
  • انقد (enqad) (dialectal, Tehrani)
  • اینقذ (inqaz) (dialectal, Kashan)
  • اقذر (eqezer) (dialectal, Mashhad)[1]

Etymology

From این (in, this) +‎ قدر (qadr, amount).

Pronunciation

 
 

Readings
Classical reading? īnqadr
Dari reading? īnqadr
Iranian reading? inġadr
Tajik reading? inqadr

Adverb

اینقدر • (īnqadr / inġadr) (Tajik spelling инқадр)

  1. this much; so much
    چطور فارسی اینقدر زیباست؟
    četowr fârsi inqadr zibâst?
    How is Persian so beautiful?

References

  1. ^ Ela Filippone (2011) “The Language of the Qorʾān-e Qods and its Sistanic Dialectal Background”, in M. Maggi, P. Orsatti, editors, The Persian Language in History[1], Wiesbaden: Reichert, pages 179-235:
    Birǰ. also has qazar for qadar ‘divine decree’, čeqazar for čeqadr ‘how much’, which reminds Mašh. eqezer ‘so much’ (= Standard Prs. in qadr). Mašh. bezem, bezet, bezeš, etc. for ‘to me, to you, to him/­her, etc.’ (= Prs. be man, be to, be u) have also been interpreted as from pad + suffix with z < d.