See also: جلا

Arabic edit

Root
خ ل و (ḵ-l-w)

Verb edit

خَلَا (ḵalā) I, non-past يَخْلُو‎ (yaḵlū)

  1. to be empty, to be devoid (of) (+مِنْ (min) or عَنْ (ʕan))
  2. to pass
    Synonym: مَضَى (maḍā)

Conjugation edit

Verb edit

خَلَا (ḵalā) I, non-past يَخْلُو‎ (yaḵlū)

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Conjugation edit

Preposition edit

خَلَا (ḵalā) – [+accusative] or [+genitive]

  1. except

Inflection edit

    Inflected forms
Base form خَلَا (ḵalā)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms
Singular Dual Plural
Masculine Feminine Common Masculine Feminine
First person خَلَانِي / خَلَايَ (ḵalānī / ḵalāya) خَلَانَا (ḵalānā)
Second person خَلَاكَ (ḵalāka) خَلَاكِ (ḵalāki) خَلَاكُمَا (ḵalākumā) خَلَاكُمْ (ḵalākum) خَلَاكُنَّ (ḵalākunna)
Third person خَلَاهُ (ḵalāhu) خَلَاهَا (ḵalāhā) خَلَاهُمَا (ḵalāhumā) خَلَاهُمْ (ḵalāhum) خَلَاهُنَّ (ḵalāhunna)

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian خلاء (xalā'), from Arabic خَلَاء (ḵalāʔ).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

خَلا (xalām (Hindi spelling ख़ला)

  1. vacancy, hollowness, lacuna
  2. emptiness, void
  3. (physics) (outer) space
  4. (physics) vacuum
  5. (biology) cell
    Synonym: خَلِیَہ (xaliya)
  6. (Sufism) the void
  7. privy, lavatory

Derived terms edit

References edit

  • خلا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • خلا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.