معیار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِعْيَار (miʕyār, “standard, gauge”).

Noun

معیار • (miʼyâr) (definite accusative معیاری (miʼyârı), plural معیارلر (miʼyârlar))

standard, measure, criterion, a principle or example by which individual things or people may be compared and judged
Synonym: قسطاس (kıstas)
(chemistry) reagent, a compound or mixture of compounds used to treat or test materials, samples, or reactants in a lab

Descendants

Turkish: miyar

Further reading

Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “miyar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 3244
Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “mi'yâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 782
Kélékian, Diran (1911) “معیار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1197
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Modulus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 1064
Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “معیار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 4781
Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “miyar”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
Redhouse, James W. (1890) “معیار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1917

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مِعْيَار (miʕyār).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /miʔ.ˈjaːɾ/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [me̞ʔ.jɑ́ːɾ]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [meː.jɑ́ːɾ]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [meː.jɔ́ːɾ]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [meʔ.jɒ́ːɹ]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [meʔ.jɔ́ɾ]

Readings
Classical reading^?	mi'yār
Dari reading^?	me'yār
Iranian reading^?	me'yâr
Tajik reading^?	me'yor

Noun

معیار • (me'yâr) (plural معیارها)

standard; criterion

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian (mi'yār), from Arabic مِعْيَار (miʕyār).

Pronunciation

(Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /mɪʕ.jɑːɾ/, /mɪʔ.jɑːɾ/, [me.jɑːɾ]
(Punjabic Urdu) IPA^(key): [mə.jɑːɾ]
- (formal) IPA^(key): [mɑ.jɑːɾ]
Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
Hyphenation: مِع‧یَار

Noun

مِعْیَار • (mi'yār) m (formal plural مِعْیَارَات (mi'yārāt), Hindi spelling मेयार)

standard, quality
rule; regulation; criterion
style; way
touchstone; standard of measure
scale; measure
example; a good attribute (ie. of a person)
Synonyms: خُوبی (xūbī), کَمال (kamāl)

Declension

Declension of **معیار**
	singular	plural
direct	مِعْیَار (mi'yār)	مِعْیَار (mi'yār)
oblique	مِعْیَار (mi'yār)	مِعْیَاروں (mi'yārõ)
vocative	مِعْیَار (mi'yār)	مِعْیَارو (mi'yāro)

Further reading

“معیار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
“معیار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “معيار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co., page 598
Platts, John T. (1884) “معيار”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 1050
John Shakespear (1834) “معیار”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC