تقدیر

See also: تقدير

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr), verbal noun of قَدَّرَ (qaddara, to determine, estimate, assess).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tak.diːr/

Noun

تقدیر • (takdir)

  1. prearrangement, the act of arranging or condition of being arranged beforehand
  2. estimate, appraisal, a rough calculation or assessment of the value of something
  3. appreciation, a fair valuation or recognition of excellence, merit or worth
  4. supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, guess, a still unproven statement or idea
  5. (religion) predestination, foreordination, the doctrine that all events have been willed by God

Derived terms

  • تقدیر الهی (takdir-i ilâhî, destiny)
  • تقدیر ایتمك (takdir etmek, to prearrange, to estimate)
  • تقدیر خدا (takdir-i hüda, destiny)
  • تقدیرجه (takdirce, in case, supposing)
  • تقدیری (takdirî, estimated)

Descendants

  • Turkish: takdir

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr).

Pronunciation

 

Readings
Classical reading? taqdīr
Dari reading? taqdīr
Iranian reading? taġdir
Tajik reading? taqdir

Noun

Dari تقدیر
Iranian Persian
Tajik тақдир

تقدیر • (taqdir) (plural تقدیرها (taqdir-hâ))

  1. fate, destiny, predestination
    • c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:
      سوم روز احمد ارسلان‌ گفت: زندگانی خداوند دراز باد، آنچه تقدیر است ناچار بباشد، در غمناک بودن بس‌ فایده نیست.
      siwum rōz ahmad-i arslān guft: zindagānī-yi xudāwand darāz bād, ānči taqdīr ast nāčār bibāšad, dar ġamnāk budan bas fāyida nēst.
      On the third day, Ahmad Arslān said: "May my lord's life be long! What is preordained is unavoidable. There is no use in being sad any longer."
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
  2. approval, appreciation
    قابل تقدیرqâbel-e taqdirappreciable
    لوح تقدیرlowh-e taqdirthank you plaque
  3. appreciation, evaluation, measurement
    • 1611, ʿAbd al-Sattār ibn Qāsim Lāhōrī, مجالس جهانگیری [Majālis-i Jahāngīrī]:
      اگر بر تقدیر معقولیت میفرمایید پس باطلترین و نجسترین و گنده‌ترین دینها پیش من دین ایشان است بلكه دین هنود نزد من از دین ایشان بهتر!
      agar bar taqdīr-i ma'quliyat mē-farmāyēd pas bātiltarīn u najistarīn u gandatarīn-i dīn-hā pēš-i man dīn-i ēšān ast balki dīn-i hunūd nazd-i man az dīn-i ēšān bihtar!
      If you assess it based on plausibility, then my view is that the absurdest, the impurest, and the dirtiest of religions is theirs: I think the religion of the Hindus is better than theirs!

Derived terms

  • تقدیراً (taqdiran)
  • تقدیری (taqdiri)

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَقْدِیر (taqdīr), from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr).

Pronunciation

Noun

تَقْدِیر • (taqdīrf (Hindi spelling तक़दीर)

  1. fate
  2. destiny
  3. predestination
    Synonyms: قِسْمَت (qismat), بھاگْیَہ (bhāgya), لَلاٹ (lalāṭ), نَصِیب (nasīb)

Descendants

References

  • Platts, John T. (1884) “تقدير”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “تقدير”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.