بیدق

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian بَیدَق (baydaq), from Arabic بَيْدَق (baydaq), back-formation from بَيَادِق (bayādiq), from Middle Persian 𐭯𐭣𐭠𐭲𐭪' (pdʾtk' /⁠payādag, payādak⁠/). Doublet of پِیادَہ (piyāda).

Pronunciation

Noun

بَیدَق • (baidaqm (Hindi spelling बैदक़)

  1. (chess) pawn
    Synonym: پیادَہ (pyāda)

Declension

Declension of بیدق
singular plural
direct بَیدَق (baidaq) بَیدَق (baidaq)
oblique بَیدَق (baidaq) بَیدَقوں (baidaqõ)
vocative بَیدَق (baidaq) بَیدَقو (baidaqo)

References

  • بیدق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “بيدق”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “بيدق”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC
  • بیدق”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.