تقدیر

See also: تقدير

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr), verbal noun of قَدَّرَ (qaddara, “to determine, estimate, assess”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tak.diːr/

Noun

تقدیر • (takdir)

1. prearrangement, the act of arranging or condition of being arranged beforehand
2. estimate, appraisal, a rough calculation or assessment of the value of something
3. appreciation, a fair valuation or recognition of excellence, merit or worth
4. supposition, conjecture, hypothesis, guess, a still unproven statement or idea
5. (religion) predestination, foreordination, the doctrine that all events have been willed by God

Derived terms

• تقدیر الهی (takdir-i ilâhî, “destiny”)
• تقدیر ایتمك (takdir etmek, “to prearrange, to estimate”)
• تقدیر خدا (takdir-i hüda, “destiny”)
• تقدیرجه (takdirce, “in case, supposing”)
• تقدیری (takdirî, “estimated”)

Descendants

• Turkish: takdir

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “takdir”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 4550
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “takdîr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1227
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “تقدیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 389
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Destinatio”, 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 367
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “تقدیر”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1308
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “takdir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “تقدیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 576

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /taq.ˈdiːr/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.d̪íːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.d̪íːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.d̪íːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.d̪íɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰæʁ.d̪íːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [t̪ʰäq.d̪íɾ]

• Rhymes: -iːr

Readings
Classical reading?	taqdīr
Dari reading?	taqdīr
Iranian reading?	taġdir
Tajik reading?	taqdir

Noun

تقدیر • (taqdīr / taġdir) (plural تقدیرها (taqdīr-hā / taġdir-hâ), Tajik spelling тақдир)

1. fate, destiny, predestination
   • c. 1075, Abu'l-Fażl Muḥammad ibn Ḥusayn Bayhaqī, تاریخ بیهقی [Tārīkh-i Bayhaqī]:

     سوم روز احمد ارسلان‌ گفت: زندگانی خداوند دراز باد، آنچه تقدیر است ناچار بباشد، در غمناک بودن بس‌ فایده نیست.

     siwum rōz ahmad-i arslān guft: zindagānī-yi xudāwand darāz bād, ānči taqdīr ast nāčār bibāšad, dar ġamnāk budan bas fāyida nēst.

     On the third day, Ahmad Arslān said: "May my lord's life be long! What is preordained is unavoidable. There is no use in being sad any longer."

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. approval, appreciation

   قابل تقدیر ― qâbel-e taqdir ― appreciable

   لوح تقدیر ― lowh-e taqdir ― thank you plaque

3. appreciation, evaluation, measurement
   • 1611, ʿAbd al-Sattār ibn Qāsim Lāhōrī, مجالس جهانگیری [Majālis-i Jahāngīrī]:

     اگر بر تقدیر معقولیت میفرمایید پس باطلترین و نجسترین و گنده‌ترین دینها پیش من دین ایشان است بلكه دین هنود نزد من از دین ایشان بهتر!

     agar bar taqdīr-i ma'quliyat mē-farmāyēd pas bātiltarīn u najistarīn u gandatarīn-i dīn-hā pēš-i man dīn-i ēšān ast balki dīn-i hunūd nazd-i man az dīn-i ēšān bihtar!

     If you assess it based on plausibility, then my view is that the absurdest, the impurest, and the dirtiest of religions is theirs: I think the religion of the Hindus is better than theirs!

Derived terms

• تقدیراً (taqdiran)
• تقدیری (taqdiri)

Further reading

• تقدیر on the Persian Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fa

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian تَقْدِیر (taqdīr), from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /t̪əq.d̪iːɾ/
• Rhymes: -iːɾ

Noun

تَقْدِیر • (taqdīr) f (Hindi spelling तक़दीर)

1. fate
2. destiny
3. predestination

   Synonyms: قِسْمَت (qismat), بھاگْیَہ (bhāgya), لَلاٹ (lalāṭ), نَصِیب (nasīb)

Descendants

• → Punjabi: ਤਕ਼ਦੀਰ (taqdīr)
• → Telugu: తక్‌దీర్ (tak‌dīr)

References

• Platts, John T. (1884), “تقدير”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “تقدير”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.