قرار

• IPA^(key): /qa.raːr/

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قَرَار • (qarār) m (plural قَرَارَات (qarārāt))

1. verbal noun of قَرَّ (qarra, “to be established, settled”) (form I)
2. decision

   يَنْسُبُ ٱلاِقْتِصَادِيُّونَ ٱلرُّكُودَ إِلَى سِلْسِلَةٍ مِنَ ٱلْقَرَارَاتِ وَٱلسِيَاسَاتِ ٱلْمَالِيَّةِ غَيْرِ ٱلْمَحْظُوظَةِ.

   yansubu l-iqtiṣādiyyūna r-rukūda ʔilā silsilatin mina l-qarārāti was-siyāsāti l-māliyyati ḡayri l-maḥẓūẓati.

   Economists ascribe the recession to a series of unfortunate financial decisions and policies.

3. fixed residence, domicile

   Synonyms: بَيْت (bayt), سَكَن (sakan), مَسْكَن (maskan)

4. secure dwelling

   Synonym: مَقَر (maqar)

5. stability

   Synonym: اِسْتِقْرَار (istiqrār)

6. steadiness
7. perseverance
8. rest, quietude
9. patience
10. assurance, promise, agreement
11. security
12. truth
13. consent
14. deepest spot, bottom, low plain
    • Souad al-Sabah

      يَا لَهُمْ، وَاللُّؤْلُؤُ الْمَكْنُونُ فِي جَوْفِ الْبِحَارِ / لَمْ يَزَلْ يَسْأَلُ عَنْهُمْ كُلَّ لَيْلٍ وَنَهَارِ
      لَمْ يَزَلْ فِي شُعَبِ الْمَرْجَانِ حَيًّا وَدَفِينًا / فِي قَرَارٍ لَمْ تَطَأْهُ قَدَمٌ مُنْذُ سِنِينَ

      yā lahum, walluʔluʔ al-maknūnu fī jawfi l-biḥār / lam yazal yasʔalu ʕanhum kulla laylin wanahār
      lam yazal fī šuʕabi l-marjāni ḥayyan wadafīn / fī qarārin lam taṭaʔhu qadamun munḏu sinīn

      To them, and the pearls located in the depths of the seas / still asking for them every night and day
      Still in the reefs alive and buried / in a place no foot had touched for years

15. pool

• → Gulf Arabic: قرار (qarār) (learned)
• → Azerbaijani: qərar
• → Bashkir: ҡарар (qarar)
• → Kazakh: қарар (qarar)
• → Ottoman Turkish: قرار (karar)
  • Turkish: karar
  • → Armenian: խարար (xarar), ղարար (ġarar), կարար (karar)
  • → Ladino: karar
• → Persian: قرار (qarâr)
  • → Bengali: করার (korar)
  • → Chagatai: قرار (qarār)
    • Uyghur: قارار (qarar)
    • Uzbek: qaror
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi: क़रार (qarār)

    Urdu: قَرار (qarār)

  • → Punjabi: ਕਰਾਰ (karār)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قرار”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَرَار (qarār).

• IPA^(key): /ɡa.raːr/, [qa.raːr]

قرار • (garār) m (plural قرارات (garārāt))

1. decision

From Arabic قَرَار (qarār).

قرار • (karar)

1. decision, resolution
2. (law) decree
3. (music) pause

• Turkish: karar
• → Armenian: խարար (xarar), ղարար (ġarar), կարար (karar)
• → Ladino: karar

• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “karâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 587
• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN

Borrowed from Arabic قَرَار (qarār).

قرار • (qarâr) (plural قرارات (qarârât))

1. arrangement, agreement:
   1. agreement to meet
   2. romantic date

      قرار اول خیلی تاثیر داره تو رابطه.

      qarâr-e avval xeyli ta'sir dâre tu râbete.

      The first date has a big impact on your relationship.

   3. condition; stipulation

      Synonym: شرط (šart)

   4. (law) decision; ruling

      Synonym: حکم (hokm)

2. stable state:
   1. rest; repose; calm

      Synonyms: آرامش (ârâmeš), آسایش (âsâyeš), استراحت (esterâhat)

      • c. 1390, Hafez, “Ghazal 2”, in دیوان حافظ [The Divān of Hafez]‎^[3]:

        قَرَار و خْوَاب زِ حَافِظ طَمَع مَدَار اَی دوسْت
        قَرَار چِیسْت؟ صَبُورِی کُدَام و خْوَاب کُجَا؟

        qarār u xwāb z-i hāfiz tama' madār ay dōst
        qarār čīst? sabūrī kudām u xwāb kujā?

        Seek not rest and sleep from Hafez, o friend;
        What is rest? What is patience, and where is sleep?

        (romanization in Classical Persian)

   2. permanence; constance

      Synonyms: دوام (davâm), ثبات (sabât)

   3. (by extension) any state; situation; condition; position

      Synonyms: حال (hâl), وضع (vaz')

3. rate

• → Bengali: করার (korar)
• → Chagatai: قرار (qarār)
  • Uyghur: قارار (qarar)
  • Uzbek: qaror
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: क़रार (qarār)

  Urdu: قَرار (qarār)

• → Punjabi: ਕਰਾਰ (karār)

Learned borrowing from Arabic قَرَار (qarār).

• IPA^(key): /qa.raːr/, [qɑˈrˤɑːrˤ]

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قرار • (qarār) m (plural قرارات (qarārāt))

1. decision

Borrowed from Classical Persian قرار (qarār), from Arabic قَرَار (qarār).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qə.ɾɑːɾ/
• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ

قَرار • (qarār) m (Hindi spelling क़रार)

1. peace, tranquility, rest, calm

   Synonyms: اَمْن (amn), سُکُون (sukūn), شانْتی (śāntī), آرام (ārām)

2. conclusion, confirmation
3. decision, promise, agreement

• “قرار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “قرار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.