قید

Borrowed from Arabic قَيْد (qayd).

قید • (qeyd) (plural قیدها, or قیود (qoyud), or اقیاد (aqyâd))

1. shackle, fetter
2. press, champ
3. reservation, condition, stipulation

   Synonym: شرط (šart)

   بدون قید و شرط ― bedun-e qeyd o šart ― unconditional, without qualifications

4. obligation, bond

   قیود همسایگی ― qoyud-e hamsâyegi ― bonds/obligations as neighbors

5. confinement, bondage

   در قید بردگی ― dar qeyd-e bardegi ― in the grip of slavery

   آزادی به قید شرط ― âzâdi be qeyd-e šart ― conditional release

6. restriction, limitation

   Synonym: محدودیت (mahdudiyyat)

   قید و بند ― qeyd o band ― restrictions

7. (grammar) adverb

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قید”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian قید (qayd), itself from Arabic قَيْد (qayd).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qɛːd̪/
• Rhymes: -ɛːd̪

قَید • (qaid) f (Hindi spelling क़ैद)

1. jail, prison
2. confinement
3. captive

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