क़सम

Borrowed from Classical Persian قسم (qasam), from Arabic قَسَم (qasam). Compare Bengali কসম (qôsom), Punjabi ਕ਼ਸਮ (qasam).

• (Delhi) IPA^(key): /qə.səm/, [qɐ.sɐ̃m], /kə.səm/, [kɐ.sɐ̃m]

क़सम • (qasam) f (Urdu spelling قسم)

1. oath, swearing

   Synonyms: शपथ (śapath), सौंह (sa͠uh), सौगंद (saugand)

   क़सम खाना ― qasam khānā ― to swear, take an oath

   यह है तो सच पर मैं क़सम खाकर नहीं कह सकता।

   yah hai to sac par ma͠i qasam khākar nahī̃ kah saktā.

   Of course it is true, but I cannot swear to it.

• Platts, John T. (1884) “क़सम”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.