خدا

See also: جدا and حدا

Baluchi

Noun

خدا • (xuda)

1. God, god

See also

• ہدا (huda)

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Laki

Noun

خدا (xda)

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 𐫑𐫇𐫅𐫀𐫏 (xwadāy)), with both religious and secular connotations. Rendered in Book Pahlavi as the ideogram MNA (Aramaic 𐡌𐡍𐡀 (mona), also meaning "lord"), this word is in turn borrowed from Aramaic 𐡇𐡃𐡉𐡀 (xdaya) & Classical Syriac ܚܕܝܐ (xadaya, “first/one”) (meaning "the one that is alone") or Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬜𐬀𐬙𐬀 (xᵛaδata, “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.

Noun

Dari	خدا
Iranian Persian
Tajik	Худо, худо

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

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

Inflection

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

Related terms

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

Descendants

• Bashkir: хоҙай (xoźay)
• Bengali: খোদা (khōda)
• Chinese:

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

• Crimean Tatar: quday
• Kazakh: құдай (qūdai)
• Karakalpak: quday
• Khakas: худай (xuday)
• Kyrgyz: кудай (kuday)
• Kumyk: худай (xuday)
• Southern Altai: кудай (kuday)
• Shor: қудай
• Tatar: ходай (xoday)

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

Borrowed from Persian خدا (xodâ).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xʊ.d̪ɑː/

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 mẽ 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)