خطبہ
Urdu edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba) (through Classical Persian خطبه (xut̤ba)).
Pronunciation edit
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /xʊt̪.bɑ(ː)/
- Hyphenation: خُط‧بَہ
- Homophone: خطبا (xut̤abā)
Noun edit
خُطْبَہ • (xutba) m (formal plural خطبات, Hindi spelling ख़ुत्बा)
- (Islam) khutbah
- (religion) sermon
- (uncommon) discourse, speech
- (by extension) a lecture
- a preface of a book
Declension edit
| Declension of خطبہ | ||
|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | |
| direct | خُطْبہ (xut̤bah) | خُطْبے (xut̤be) |
| oblique | خُطْبے (xut̤be) | خُطْبوں (xut̤bõ) |
| vocative | خُطْبے (xut̤be) | خُطْبو (xut̤bo) |
Further reading edit
- “خطبہ”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “خطبہ”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خطبہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- “خطبہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.