خبردار

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَبَرْدَار (xabardār, “beware, aware”), from خَبَر (xabar, “news”) +‎ ـدَار (-dār). By surface analysis, خَبَر +‎ ـدار.

Adjective

خبردار • (haberdâr)

1. aware, informed, cognizant, abreast, apprised, conscious or having knowledge of something

   Synonyms: اكاه (agah), خبیر (habîr)

Derived terms

• خبردار اولمق (haberdâr olmak, “to be informed”)
• خبردار ایتمك (haberdâr etmek, “to inform”)

Descendants

• Turkish: haberdar
• → Armenian: խապարտար (xapartar)

Further reading

• Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “haberdar”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
• Barbier de Meynard, Charles (1881), “خبردار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, volume I, Paris: E. Leroux, page 688
• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “haberdar”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1824
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962), “haberdâr”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎ [Ottoman–Turkish Encyclopedic Dictionary]‎^[1] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 362
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “خبردار”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[2] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 531b
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Conscius”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[3], Vienna, column 250
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “خبردار”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1856
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خبردار”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[5], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 830

Persian

Etymology

From خبر (xabar, “news”) +‎ ـدار (-dār).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xa.bar.ˈdaːr/

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xä.bäɾ.d̪ɑːɾ]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xä.bäɾ.d̪ɑːɾ]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xä.bäɾ.d̪ɑːɾ]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xä.bäɾ.d̪ɔːɾ]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xæ.bæɹ.d̪ɒːɹ]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χä.bäɾ.d̪ɔɾ]

• Rhymes: -aːr

Readings
Classical reading?	xabardār
Dari reading?	xabardār
Iranian reading?	xabardâr
Tajik reading?	xabardor

Adjective

خبردار • (xabardār / xabardâr) (Tajik spelling хабардор)

1. informed, aware
2. careful, cautious

Derived terms

• خَبَرْدَاری (xabardārī, “awareness”)

Descendants

• → Bengali: খবরদার (khobrodar)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़बरदार (xabardār), खबरदार (khabardār) — nuqtaless

  Urdu: خَبَرْدَار (xabardār)

• → Odia: ଖବରଦାର (khabaradāra)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خَبَرْدَار (haberdâr)
  • Turkish: haberdar
  • → Armenian: խապարտար (xapartar)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ਬਰਦਾਰ (xabradār), ਖਬਰਦਾਰ (khabardār) — nuqtaless

  Shahmukhi script: خَبَرْدَار (xabardār)

Noun

خبردار • (xabardâr)

1. informer, spy

Interjection

خبردار • (xabardâr)

1. take care, beware

Further reading

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892), “خبردار”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary (overall work in English), London: Routledge & K. Paul