قیمہ

See also: قیمه

Urdu

Alternative forms

• قِیما (qīmā)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qiːm.ɑ(ː)/, /qiː.mə/, /kiːm.ɑ(ː)/, /kiː.mə/

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• Rhymes: -ɑ, -ɑː, -ə

Noun

قِیمَہ • (qīma) m (Hindi spelling क़ीमा)

1. mincemeat, ground meat

   قِیمَہ کَرْنَا ― qīmā karnā ― to mince

Declension

Declension of قیمہ

	singular	plural
direct	قِیمَہ (qīmah)	قِیمے (qīme)
oblique	قِیمے (qīme)	قِیموں (qīmõ)
vocative	قِیمے (qīme)	قِیمو (qīmo)

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.