قیمت

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قِيمَة (qīma).

Pronunciation

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  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [qiː.mǽt̪]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [qiː.mǽt̪]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [qi.mǽt̪]

Readings
Classical reading? qīmat
Dari reading? qīmat
Iranian reading? ğeymat
Tajik reading? qimat

Noun

Dari قیمت
Iranian Persian
Tajik қимат

قیمت • (qeymat) (plural قیمت‌ها (qeymat-hâ))

  1. price
    Synonyms: (less common) بها (bahâ), (less common, standard in Tajik) نرخ (nerx)
    قِیْمَتِ دُلارğeymat-e dolârprice of the dollar
    قِیْمَتِ مَسْکَن دَر تِهْرانğeymat-e maskan dar tehrânhousing prices in Tehran
    • late 1100s, Khāqānī, “Ghazal 55”, in دیوان خاقانی:
      بی‌دلی را که دمی با تو مهیا گردد
      قیمت هر دو جهان نیمهٔ آن یک‌دم نیست
      bē dilī rā ki damē bā tu muhayya gardad
      qīmat-i har du jahān nīma-yi ān yak dam nēst
      For the lovesick one who spends a single moment with you,
      The price of both worlds [this world and the afterlife] is not [worth] half that moment.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Derived terms

Descendants

Adjective

قیمت • (qimat)

  1. (Dari) expensive

See also

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian قِیمَت (qīmat), from Arabic قِيمَة (qīma).

Pronunciation

Noun

قِیمَت • (qīmat) f (Hindi spelling क़ीमत)

  1. price
  2. value
  3. worth
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