ख़बर

See also: खबर

Hindi

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خبر (xabar), from Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar). Compare Punjabi ਖ਼ਬਰ (xabar) / خَبَر (xabar), Nepali खबर (khabar), Gujarati ખબર (khabar), Marathi खबर (khabar), Bengali খবর (khobor), Kannada ಖಬರು (khabaru), Telugu కబురు (kaburu), Assamese খবৰ (khobor).

Pronunciation

• (Delhi Hindi) IPA^(key): /xə.bəɾ/, [xɐ.bɐɾ], /kʰə.bəɾ/, [kʰɐ.bɐɾ]

Noun

ख़बर • (xabar) f (Urdu spelling خَبَر)

1. news

   Synonym: समाचार (samācār)

2. information, intelligence, knowledge
3. message, notification

Declension

Declension of ख़बर (fem cons-stem)

	singular	plural
direct	ख़बर xabar	ख़बरें xabarẽ
oblique	ख़बर xabar	ख़बरों xabarõ
vocative	ख़बर xabar	ख़बरो xabaro

Derived terms

• ख़बर लेना (xabar lenā)
• ख़बरी (xabrī)
• ख़बरदार (xabardār)

References

• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993) “ख़बर”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press