kubber
English edit
Etymology edit
From Hindi ख़बर (xabar) / Urdu خَبَر (xabar), from Persian خبر, from Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar).
Noun edit
kubber (uncountable)
- (India, archaic) News.
- 1869, The Broadway, page 44:
- “The kubber is good, Sahib,” replied the veteran, […]
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References edit
- Henry Yule, A[rthur] C[oke] Burnell (1903) “kubber”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson […] , London: John Murray, […], page 494.
- “Kubber” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary […], 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 211.