See also: حراب

Arabic edit

 
خَرَاب

Etymology edit

From the root خ ر ب (ḵ-r-b).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

خَرَاب (ḵarābm

  1. (uncountable) ruin, wreck
  2. (uncountable) ruination, wreckage, desolation

Declension edit

Adjective edit

خَرَاب (ḵarāb)

  1. ruined, wrecked, destroyed

Declension edit

Descendants edit

  • Azerbaijani: xarab
  • Northern Kurdish: xirab
  • Ottoman Turkish: خراب (harâb)
  • Persian: خراب (xarâb)

Ottoman Turkish edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic خَرَاب (ḵarāb, ruined, wrecked).

Adjective edit

خراب (harab)

  1. ruined, desolated, devastated
    Synonyms: ویران (viran), یباب (yebab), ییقق (yıkık)
  2. uninhabited, having no inhabitants
    Synonym: چول (çöl)
  3. spoilt, marred, wasted
  4. impoverished, dilapidated

Noun edit

خراب (harab)

  1. ruin, desolation, devastation, waste
    Synonym: تخریب (tahrib)
  2. impoverishment, immiseration, dilapidation
  3. decline, decay, deterioration

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

Persian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Arabic خَرَاب (ḵarāb).

Pronunciation edit

 

Readings
Classical reading? xarāḇ
Dari reading? xarāb
Iranian reading? xarâb
Tajik reading? xarob
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Adjective edit

Dari خراب
Iranian Persian
Tajik хароб

خراب (xarâb)

  1. ruined, devastated, demolished, destroyed
    Synonyms: ویرانه (virâne), ویران (virân)
  2. drunk, intoxicated
  3. spoiled
  4. miserable
  5. (chiefly Dari) bad
    Synonym: بد
  6. (chiefly Tajik) thin, slim (denoting of a person's size as not being fat, not fat. See below for the antonym and a more-formal synonym.)
    Synonym: لاغر Antonym: فربه

Noun edit

خراب (xarâb)

  1. ruin, desolation
    Synonym: ویرانه (virâne)

Derived terms edit

Urdu edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Classical Persian خراب (xarāb), from Arabic خَرَاب (ḵarāb).

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

خَراب (xarāb) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़राब)

  1. spoiled, ruined, damaged
  2. bad, evil
    Synonym: بُرا (burā)
  3. (food) rotten
  4. (machinery) out of order, broken
  5. volatile

Further reading edit

  • خراب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • خراب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “خراب”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John Thompson (1884), “خراب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., →ISBN, →OCLC
  • S. W. Fallon (1879), “خراب”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834), “خراب”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

Ushojo edit

Etymology edit

From Urdu خراب (xarāb).

Adjective edit

خراب (xarāb)

  1. spoiled, ruined, damaged, broken
  2. bad, evil