# تقدیر
## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tak.diːr/

### Noun

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

#### Derived terms

* 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 (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 1227
* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “تقدیر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, 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, 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, Vienna, column 1308
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “takdir”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Redhouse, James W. (1890) “تقدیر”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 576

## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَقْدِير (taqdīr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [taq.ˈdiːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰäq.d̪íːɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰäq.d̪íːɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [t̪ʰäq.d̪íːɾ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [t̪ʰäq.d̪íɾ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰæʁ.d̪íːɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [t̪ʰäq.d̪íɾ]

### Noun

| Dari | تقدیر |
| Iranian Persian | تقدیر |
| Tajik | тақдир |
تقدیر • (taqdir) (plural تقدیرها (taqdir-hâ))
* 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 ğamnāk 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)
* approval, appreciation
    قابل تقدیر ― qâbel-e taqdir ― appreciable
* 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: /t̪əq.d̪iːɾ/
* Rhymes: -iːɾ

### Noun

تَقْدِیر • (taqdīr) f (Hindi spelling तक़दीर)
* fate
* destiny
* predestination

#### 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.