پیدا

Persian

Etymology

From Middle Persian pdyʾg (/⁠paydāg⁠/), borrowed from Parthian [Term?], from Proto-Iranian *pati-diHā-kah, from Proto-Iranian *pati- (“towards, against”) + Proto-Iranian *daiH- (“to look, see”); see Sanskrit ध्यै (dhyai, “to contemplate, meditate”) for more on the root.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [paj.ˈdɑː]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.d̪ɑ́ː]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.d̪ɑ́ː]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.d̪ɑ́ː]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.d̪ɔ́ː]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [pej.d̪ɒ́ː]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [pʰäj.d̪ɔ́]

Readings
Classical reading?	paydā
Dari reading?	paydā
Iranian reading?	peydâ
Tajik reading?	paydo

Adjective

پیدا • (peydâ)

1. evident, visible, apparent
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3508:

     هشت جنت هفت دوزخ پیش من
     هست پیدا همچو بت پیش شمن

     hašt jannat haft dōzax pēš-i-man
     hast paydā hamčō but pēš-i-šaman

     The Eight Paradises and the Seven Hells
     are as visible to me as the idol to the idolater.

2. clear, obvious

Derived terms

• پیدا کردن (peydâ kardan)

Descendants

• → Bengali: পয়দা (poẏda)
• → Gujarati: પેદા (pedā)

• → Larestani: پیدا

• → Old Hindi: पैदा (paidā)
  • Hindustani: paidā

    Hindi: पैदा

    Urdu: پَیدا (paidā)

• → Kashmiri: پٲدٕ (pạ̄dụ)
• → Marathi: पैदा (paidā)
• → Marwari: पैदा (paidā)
• → Odia: ପଇଦା (pôida)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਪੈਦਾ (paidā)

  Shahmukhi script: پَیدا (paidā)

• → Sindhi:

  Arabic script: پَیدا

  Devanagari script: पैदा

• → Ottoman Turkish: پیدا

  →⇒ Turkish: peyda, peydah

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian پیدا (paidā). Compare Kashmiri پٲدٕ (pạ̄dụ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /pɛː.d̪ɑː/

Adjective

پیدا • (paidā) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling पैदा)

1. born
2. arisen, created

References

• “پیدا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “پیدا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.