# قدر
## Arabic
### Etymology 1
#### Verb

قَدَرَ • (qadara) I (non-past يَقْدِرُ (yaqdiru), verbal noun قُدْرَة (qudra) or مَقْدُرَة (maqdura) or مَقْدَرَة (maqdara) or مَقْدِرَة (maqdira)) قَدِرَ • (qadira) I (non-past يَقْدَرُ (yaqdaru), verbal noun قَدَر (qadar))
* to have power [with عَلَى (ʕalā) ‘over someone’]
* to be equal to, to be up to
* to be able to [with عَلَى (ʕalā) or أَن (ʔan, + subjunctive clause) ‘do(ing) something’]
    كي نضمِّن أن توصلنا قراراتنا في المجالات الأخلاقية إلى نتائج جيدة، لا نقدر أن نتَّكل فقط على إحساسنا أو رأي الآخرين.In order to ensure that our decisions in ethical areas lead to good results, we cannot rely solely on our own feelings or the opinions of others.

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2
#### Verb

قَدَّرَ • (qaddara) II (non-past يُقَدِّرُ (yuqaddiru), verbal noun تَقْدِير (taqdīr))
* to determine, to fix
* to estimate, to assess, to forecast
* to foresee, to wager
* to enable someone to something (with accusative and عَلَى)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 3
#### Noun

قَدْر • (qadr) m (plural أَقْدَار (ʔaqdār))
* quantity, quantum, measure, magnitude, size, bulk, proportion, extent, space, amount, sum, number
    هٰذَا قَدْرُ ذَاكَ ― hāḏā qadru ḏāka ― this is as much as that
    هُمْ قَدْرُ مِئَةٍ ― hum qadru miʔatin ― they are as many as 100
    أَقَمْتُ عِنْدَهُ قَدْرَ أَنْ يَفْعَلَ كَذَاʔaqamtu ʕindahu qadra ʔan yafʕala kaḏāI remained at his house long enough for him to do thus
    عَلَى قَدْرٍ مَا ― ʕalā qadrin mā ― to a certain extent
* worth, value
* greatness, majesty, honorableness, nobleness
* preordained destiny, predestination, fate
* will of God, divine decree, providence
* might, power, position, influence, wealth

##### Descendants

* → Armenian: ղադր (ġadr)
* → Georgian: ყადრი (q̇adri)
** → Bats: ყადრ (q̇adr)
* → Hausa: ƙàddar̃ā̀
** → Yoruba: kádàrá
* → Persian: قدر, قه (qa) (Dari, colloquial)
** → Bengali: কদর (kodor)
** → Chagatai: قدر (qadar)
*** → Bashkir: ҡәҙәр (qəźər)
*** → Kazakh: қадір (qadır)
*** Uyghur: قەدىر (qedir)
*** Uzbek: qadar
** → Hindustani:
    Hindi: क़द्र (qadar)
    Urdu: قَدَر (qadar)
*** → Nepali: कदर् (kadar)
** → Khalaj: -qadar
** → Old Anatolian Turkish: قَدَرْ
*** Azerbaijani: qədər
*** Gagauz: kadar
*** Ottoman Turkish: قدر (kadar)
**** Turkish: kadar, kader
**** → Armenian: խըտար (xətar), խատար (xatar), ղըդա̈ր (ġədär), կա̈նդա̈ր (kändär)
**** → Crimean Tatar: qadar
** → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਕਦਰ (kadar)
    Punjabi: قدر (qadr)
* → Somali: khadar

##### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “قدر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قدر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

### Etymology 4
#### Noun

قَدَر • (qadar) m (plural أَقْدَار (ʔaqdār))
* verbal noun of قَدِرَ (qadira, “to be able to”) (form I)
* fate, destiny
* power, capacity, faculty
* ability
* competence
* sufficiency, riches
* quantity, measure, size, space, amount, sum, number
* worth, value
* greatness, majesty, honorableness, nobleness

##### Derived terms

* قَضَاءٌ وَقَدَرٌ (qaḍāʔun wa-qadarun, coordinated pair)

##### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “قدر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قدر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen

### Etymology 5
#### Noun

قِدْر • (qidr) f (plural قُدُور (qudūr))
* (cooking) pot, kettle, cooking pot
    قِدْر نُحَاس ― qidr nuḥās ― copper pot

##### Descendants

* Gulf Arabic: جدر (jidir)
* Hijazi Arabic: قدر (gidir)

##### References

* Lane, Edward William (1863) “قدر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “قدر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎, London: W.H. Allen
* Wehr, Hans (1960) “قدر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

## Egyptian Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic قَدَرَ (qadara).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʔidir/

### Verb

قدر • (ʔidir) I (non-past يقدر (yiʔdar))
* to be able to, to can

#### Conjugation

$^1$ The future tense can be prefixed with either هـ (ha-) or حـ (ḥa-) depending on the speaker.

## Hijazi Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic قَدَر (qadar).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡa.dar/

#### Noun

قدر • (gadar) m (plural أقدار (agdār))
* destiny, fate
    Synonyms: مصير, نصيب, قسمة

### Etymology 2

From Arabic قَدْر (qadr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡa.dir/

#### Noun

قدر • (gadir) m (construct state قَدْر (gadr))
* quantity, quantum, measure, magnitude, size, much
    Synonym: قد (gadd)
    مَا كُنْت أَعْرِف إنِّك تِحُبِّيه بِهٰذَا القَدِرmā kunt ʔaʕrif ʔinnik tiḥubbīh bihāḏā al-gadirI didn't know that you love him this much

### Etymology 3

From Arabic قِدْر (qidr).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡi.dir/

#### Noun

قدر • (gidir) m (construct state قِدْر (gidr), plural قدور (gudūr))
* cooking pot
    Synonym: حلة (ḥalla)

### Etymology 4

From Arabic قَدَرَ (qadara) or قَدِرَ (qadira).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡi.dir/

#### Verb

قدر • (gidir) I (non-past يقدر (yigdar), active participle قادر (gādir))
* to be up to (doing something), to be able to (do something)

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 5

From Arabic قَدَّرَ (qaddara).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡad.dar/

#### Verb

قدر • (gaddar) II (non-past يقدر (yigddir))
* to appreciate
* to estimate

##### Conjugation
## Old Anatolian Turkish
### Etymology

Borrowed from Persian قدر (qadar, qadr), from Arabic قَدْر (qadr).

### Noun

قَدَرْ (qädär)
* amount, quantity, size

#### Descendants

* Azerbaijani: qədər
* Gagauz: kadar
* Ottoman Turkish: قدر (kadar)
** Turkish: kadar, kader
** → Armenian: խըտար (xətar), խատար (xatar), ղըդա̈ր (ġədär), կա̈նդա̈ր (kändär)
** → Crimean Tatar: qadar

## Ottoman Turkish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish قَدَرْ (qädär), from Persian قدر (qadar, qadr), from Arabic قَدْر (qadr).

### Adverb

قدر • (kadar)
* as much as
* up to, until
* about, approximately

### Noun

قدر • (kadar)
* amount, quantity, size

#### Descendants

* Turkish: kadar, kader
* → Armenian: խըտար (xətar), խատար (xatar), ղըդա̈ր (ġədär), կա̈նդա̈ր (kändär)
* → Crimean Tatar: qadar

### Further reading

* Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قدر”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎, Constantinople: Mihran, page 948

## Persian
### Alternative forms

* قه (qa) (Dari, colloquial)

### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic قَدْر (qadr).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ˈqaðɾ], [qa.ˈðaɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qǽd̪ɾ], [qä.d̪ǽɾ]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [qǽd̪ɾ], [qä.d̪ǽɾ]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [qǽ]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [qǽ]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [qǽd̪ɹ], [qæ.d̪ǽɹ]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [qǽd̪ɾ], [qä.d̪ǽɾ]

### Noun

قدر • (qadr or qadar)
* amount, quantity, size
    Synonyms: اندازه (andâze), مقدار (meqdâr)
* importance, value, worth
    Synonym: ارزش (arzeš)
* dignity, rank
* preordained destiny, predestination, fate
* will of God, divine decree, providence
* (mathematics) value
    قدر مطلقqadr-e motlaqabsolute value
* (astronomy) magnitude of a star
    قدر ظاهریqadr-e zâheriapparent magnitude

#### Derived terms

* آنقدر (anqadr, “that much”)
* اینقدر (inqadr, “this much”)
* چقدر (čeqadr, “how much”)

#### Descendants

* → Bengali: কদর (kodor)
* → Chagatai: قدر (qadar)
** → Bashkir: ҡәҙәр (qəźər)
** → Kazakh: қадір (qadır)
** Uyghur: قەدىر (qedir)
** Uzbek: qadar
* → Hindustani:
    Hindi: क़द्र (qadar)
    Urdu: قَدَر (qadar)
** → Nepali: कदर् (kadar)
* → Khalaj: -qadar
* → Old Anatolian Turkish: قَدَرْ
** Azerbaijani: qədər
** Gagauz: kadar
** Ottoman Turkish: قدر (kadar)
*** Turkish: kadar, kader
*** → Armenian: խըտար (xətar), խատար (xatar), ղըդա̈ր (ġədär), կա̈նդա̈ր (kändär)
*** → Crimean Tatar: qadar
* → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਕਦਰ (kadar)
    Punjabi: قدر (qadr)

## South Levantine Arabic
### Etymology 1

From Arabic قَدِرَ (qadira).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Urban) /ʔi.dir/, [ˈʔidɪr]
* IPA: (Bedouin) /ɡi.dir/, [ˈɡi.dɪr]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

قدر • (ʔidir) I (present بقدر (biʔdar), active participle قادر (ʔāder))
* to be able to (do something)
    ما بقدر اقول بالزبط. ― mā baʔdar aʔūl biẓ-ẓabṭ. ― I can't say exactly.
    قليل من الناس بقدرو يطلعو اجازات كل اكم من شهر.ʔalīl min in-nās biʔdaru yiṭlaʕu ijazāt kull akamm min šahr.Not many people can go on vacation every few months.

##### Conjugation
### Etymology 2

From Arabic قَدَّرَ (qaddara).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Urban) /ʔad.dar/, [ˈʔad.dar]
* IPA: (Bedouin) /ɡad.dar/, [ˈɡad.dar]
* Audio (al-Lidd):(file)

#### Verb

قدّر • (ʔaddar) II (present بقدّر (biʔadder))
* to appreciate, to estimate, to value