قیمہ

See also: قیمه

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قیمه (qīma, “ground meat, mincemeat”), likely ultimately from Turkic. Compare Ottoman Turkish قیمه (kıyma) (whence modern Turkish kıyma (“minced meat”)), Punjabi ਕ਼ੀਮਾ (qīmā) / قِیمہ (qīmh), Gujarati ખીમો (khīmo), Marathi खिमा (khimā), Bengali কিমা (kima).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qiː.mɑː/, /kiː.mɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

Noun

قِیمَہ • (qīmā) m (Hindi spelling क़ीमा)

1. mincemeat, ground meat

   قِیمَہ کَرْنَا ― qīmā karnā ― to mince

Descendants

• → Burmese: ကီးမား (ki:ma:)
• → English: keema
• → Swahili: kima

References

• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “قيمہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.