خدا

See also: جدا and حدا

Baluchi

Noun

خدا • (xuda)

1. God, god

See also

• ہدا (huda)

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Laki

Noun

خدا (transliteration needed)

1. God, god

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Persian

Alternative forms

• خدای (xodây) (archaic)

Etymology

From earlier خدای (xodây), from Middle Persian hwtʾy (xwadāy, “lord”) (Manichaean Middle Persian xwdʾy (xwadāy)), with both religious and secular connotations. Rendered in Book Pahlavi as the ideogram MNA (Aramaic [script needed] (mona), also meaning "lord"), this word is in turn borrowed from Avestan [script needed] (x^vaδata-) "self-determined" (in the sense of "not dependent on anything/anyone"). The related Sanskrit term is स्वधा (svádhā), with the same meaning. Cognate with Bactrian χοαδηο (xoadēo, “lord”) and Kurdish خوا (xwâ).

Pronunciation

• (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): [xoˈd̪ɒː]

Noun

Dari	خدا
Iranian Persian	خدا
Tajik	Худо, худо (Xudo, xudo)

خدا • (xodâ) (plural خدایان (xodâyân))

1. God, god
2. lord
3. patron
4. chief
5. master
6. owner

Inflection

predicative forms of خدا

	singular	plural
1st person (I am/we are)	خدایم (xodâyam) خدام (xodâm) (colloquial)	خداییم (xodâyim)
2nd person (you are)	خدایی (xodâyi)	خدایید (xodâyid) خدایین (xodâyin) (colloquial)
3rd person (he, she, it is/they are)	خداست (xodâst) خداس، خدائه (xodâs, xodâe) (colloquial)	خدایند (xodâyand) خدان (xodân) (colloquial)

Related terms

• خدائی, خدایی
• خدا حافظ
• خداحافظی
• کدخدا (kadxodâ)
• دهخدا (dehxodâ)
• خداوند (xodâvand)

Descendants

• Bashkir: хоҙай (xoðay)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胡大 (húdà) (often Lanyin and Zhongyuan)

References

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xwadāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95

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Urdu

Etymology

From Persian خدا (xodâ).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xʊd̪aː]

Noun

خدا • (xudā) m (Hindi spelling ख़ुदा)

1. God, god

   مخلوق میں خالق کا نظر آیا جس کو اس دیکھنے والے نے خدا کو دیکھا

   Maxlūq mẽṅ xāliq kā nazar āyā jis ko us dekhne vāle ne xudā ko dekhā

   Who has seen the creator in the creation, that observer has seen God

2. lord
3. patron
4. chief
5. master
6. owner

Derived terms

• خدا حافظ (xudā hāfiz)