خطبہ

See also: خطبة and خطبه

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba) (through Classical Persian خطبه (xut̤ba)).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xʊt̪.bɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: خُط‧بَہ
• Homophone: خطبا (xut̤abā)

Noun

خُطْبَہ • (xutba) m (formal plural خطبات, Hindi spelling ख़ुत्बा)

1. (Islam) khutbah
2. (religion) sermon
3. (uncommon) discourse, speech
4. (by extension) a lecture
5. a preface of a book

Declension

Declension of خطبہ
	singular	plural
direct	خُطْبہ (xut̤bah)	خُطْبے (xut̤be)
oblique	خُطْبے (xut̤be)	خُطْبوں (xut̤bõ)
vocative	خُطْبے (xut̤be)	خُطْبو (xut̤bo)

Further reading

• “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.