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Etymology

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Particularly: “Is this a borrowing? If not, is it from خی (xi, chi (letter)) +‎ بان (bân, keeper) or something similar, or derived from a verb?”

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xiyāḇān
Dari reading? xiyābān
Iranian reading? xiyâbân
Tajik reading? xiyobon

Noun

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Dari خیابان
Iranian Persian
Tajik хиёбон

خیابان (xiyâbân) (plural خیابان‌ها (xiyâbân-hâ))

  1. road
  2. street
  3. avenue

Descendants

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  • Georgian: ხეივანი (xeivani)

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian خیابان (xiyābān).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خِیابان (xiyābānm (Hindi spelling ख़ियाबान)

  1. avenue, a broad road, a wide street
  2. (a path between) a parterre, flower garden.
    Synonyms: چَمَن (caman), گُلِسْتاں (gulistā̃), گُلِسْتان (gulistān)

Declension

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    Declension of خیابان
singular plural
direct خیابان (xiyābān) خیابان (xiyābān)
oblique خیابان (xiyābān) خیابانوں (xiyābānõ)
vocative خیابان (xiyābān) خیابانو (xiyābāno)

Further reading

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  • خیابان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • خیابان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خيابان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “خيابان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.