قدیم
See also: قديم
Azerbaijani
Adjective
قدیم
- Arabic spelling of qədim
Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm).
Adjective
قدیم • (kadîm) (feminine قدیمه (kadîme))
Descendants
- Turkish: kadim
Further reading
- Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قدیم”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1440
Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian) IPA(key): /qa.ˈdiːm/
- (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [qä.d̪íːm]
- (Iran, formal) IPA(key): [qæ.d̪íːm]
- (Tajik, formal) IPA(key): [qä.d̪ím]
| Readings | |
|---|---|
| Classical reading? | qadīm |
| Dari reading? | qadīm |
| Iranian reading? | ġadim |
| Tajik reading? | qadim |
Adjective
| Dari | قدیم |
|---|---|
| Iranian Persian | |
| Tajik | қадим |
قدیم • (qadim)
Further reading
- Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قدیم”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian قَدِیم (qadīm), borrowed from Arabic قَدِيم (qadīm). First attested in c. 1635 as Middle Hindi قدیم (qdym /qadīm/).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /qə.d̪iːm/
- Rhymes: -iːm
- Hyphenation: قَ‧دِیم
Adjective
قَدِیم • (qadīm) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling क़दीम)
- ancient, old (ie. historical)
- Synonyms: پرانا (purānā), پراچین (parācīn), سابق (sābiq)
- قدیم یونان ― qadīm yūnān ― Ancient Greece
- قدیم سنگی دور ― qadīm saṅgī daur ― Old Stone Age/Paleolithic Age
- obsolete (ie. no longer in existence, or use)
- eternal (something which has existed since the beginning and has no end, such as God)
Usage notes
Contrary to پُرانا (purānā), قَدِیم (qadīm) is chiefly used to highlight something that may now be historical, or no-longer existing or in use, whereas پُرانا (purānā) may be used for something that may be old, but still in existence. The antonym for قَدِیم (qadīm) is جَدِید (jadīd, “modern”), whereas the antonym for پُرانا (purānā) would be نَیَا (nayā, “new”).