From the verbقَعَدَ(qaʕada,“tosit down, tolie in wait, towaylay”), rootق ع د(q ʕ d).

• IPA^(key):/qaː.ʕi.da/

قَاعِدَة• (qāʕida) f (pluralقَوَاعِد(qawāʕid))

1. foundation

   Synonym:أَسَاس(ʔasās)

   • 609–632CE,Qur'an,16:26:

     قَدْ مَكَرَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَى اللَّهُ بُنْيَانَهُم مِّنَ الْقَوَاعِدِ فَخَرَّ عَلَيْهِمُ السَّقْفُ مِن فَوْقِهِمْ وَأَتَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

     qad makara llaḏīna min qablihim faʔatā l-lahu bunyānahum mina l-qawāʕidi faḵarra ʕalayhimu s-saqfu min fawqihim waʔatāhumu l-ʕaḏābu min ḥayṯu lā yašʕurūna

     Indeed, those before them had plotted, but Allah struck at the ˹very˺foundation of their structure, so the roof collapsed on top of them, and the torment came upon them from where they did not expect.

2. basis

   Synonym:أَسَاس(ʔasās)

3. precept,rule,principle
4. fundament
5. (military)base
6. (chemistry)base

   Synonym:قَلَوِيّ(qalawiyy)

   Antonym:حَمْض(ḥamḍ)

7. (grammar)rule

   قَاعِدَة الْمُضَارِع الْمُسْتَمِرّ ―qāʕidat al-muḍāriʕ al-mustamirr ―The present continuous rule

8. support,socle,pedestal
9. chassis,undercarriage
10. formula

    قَاعِدَة فِيثَاغُورَس ―qāʿidat fīṯāḡōras ―Pythagorean formula, Pythagorean theorem

11. method,manner
12. model,pattern

    Synonym:نَمَط(namaṭ)

• → Armenian:ղայդա(ġayda)
• Gulf Arabic:قاعدة(qāʕida)
• → Azerbaijani:qayda
• → Bashkir:ҡағиҙә(qağiźə)
• → Hausa:ƙa'ida
• → Georgian:ყაიდა(q̇aida)
• → Kazakh:қағида(qağida),қағидат(qağidat)
• → Malay:kaidah,kaedah
  • → Indonesian:kaidah
• Maltese:qagħda
• → Ottoman Turkish:قاعده(ka'ide)
  • → Turkish:kaide
• → Persian:قاعده(qâ'ede) (see there for further descendants)
• → Tatar:кагыйдә(qağıydä),qağıydä
• → Turkmen:kada
• → Uyghur:قائىدە(qa'ide)
• → Uzbek:qoida

(via plural formقَوَاعِد(qawāʕid)):

• → Persian:قواعد(qavâ'ed)
  • → Gujarati:કવાયત(kavāyat)
  • → Hindustani:

    Hindi:क़वायद(qavāyad)

    Urdu:قَواعِد(qavā'id)

  • → Kannada:ಕವಾಯತು(kavāyatu)
  • → Marathi:कवाईत(kavāīt)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script:ਕਵਾਇਦ(kavāida)

    Shahmukhi script:قَواعد(qauā‘d)

  • → Sindhi:

    Arabic script:قَوَاعِدُ

    Devanagari script:क़वाइद

  • → Telugu:కవాతు(kavātu)
• → Swahili:kawaida

FromArabicقَاعِدَة(qāʕida).

• IPA^(key):/ɡaːʕ.da/(common pronunciation for the adjective and can be used for the noun)
  • IPA^(key):[qaː.ʕ(ɪ).da](common pronunciation only for the noun)

قَاعْدةorقَاعِدة• (gāʕdaorgāʕida) f (pluralقَوَاعِد(gawāʕid)orقاعْدات(gāʕdāt))

1. basis
2. (military)base
3. rule,principle,precept
4. (beverage)coaster
5. foundation
6. fundament

قاعدة• (gāʕda) (common pluralقاعدين(gāʕdīn),feminine pluralقاعدات(gāʕdāt))

1. feminine ofقَاعِد(gāʕid,“sitting”)
2. Forms apresent continuous tense

   Synonym:بِـ(bi)

   قاعدة تلعب / بِتِلْعَب ―gāʕda tilʕab / bi-tilʕab ―she is playing

The common plural adjective is used with both feminine and masculine plural nouns, while the feminine plural adjective is rarely used and only used with feminine nouns.

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