خبر

See also: جبر, حبر, چتر, خبز, and چپر

Arabic

Etymology 1

From the root خ ب ر (ḵ-b-r).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.ba.ra/

Verb

1. (transitive) to try, to test

Verb

1. (transitive) to experience, to know by experience, to know well, to know thoroughly

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.bu.ra/

Verb

1. to know thoroughly, to be fully acquainted with

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xab.ba.ra/

Verb

خَبَّرَ • (ḵabbara) II (non-past يُخَبِّرُ (yuḵabbiru), verbal noun تَخْبِير (taḵbīr))

1. to notify, to advise, to apprise, to inform (someone بِ (bi, “about”))

Etymology 4

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.bar/

• Audio:

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Noun

خَبَر • (ḵabar) m (plural أَخْبَار (ʔaḵbār))

1. report, message, notification
2. proposition (“statement expressing something that is either true or false”)
3. news
4. information, intelligence
5. rumor, story
6. matter, affair
7. (grammar) predicate of a nominal clause

Declension

Declension of noun خَبَر (ḵabar)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَبَر ḵabar	الْخَبَر al-ḵabar	خَبَر ḵabar
Nominative	خَبَرٌ ḵabarun	الْخَبَرُ al-ḵabaru	خَبَرُ ḵabaru
Accusative	خَبَرًا ḵabaran	الْخَبَرَ al-ḵabara	خَبَرَ ḵabara
Genitive	خَبَرٍ ḵabarin	الْخَبَرِ al-ḵabari	خَبَرِ ḵabari
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَبَرَيْن ḵabarayn	الْخَبَرَيْن al-ḵabarayn	خَبَرَيْ ḵabaray
Nominative	خَبَرَانِ ḵabarāni	الْخَبَرَانِ al-ḵabarāni	خَبَرَا ḵabarā
Accusative	خَبَرَيْنِ ḵabarayni	الْخَبَرَيْنِ al-ḵabarayni	خَبَرَيْ ḵabaray
Genitive	خَبَرَيْنِ ḵabarayni	الْخَبَرَيْنِ al-ḵabarayni	خَبَرَيْ ḵabaray
Plural	basic broken plural triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	أَخْبَار ʔaḵbār	الْأَخْبَار al-ʔaḵbār	أَخْبَار ʔaḵbār
Nominative	أَخْبَارٌ ʔaḵbārun	الْأَخْبَارُ al-ʔaḵbāru	أَخْبَارُ ʔaḵbāru
Accusative	أَخْبَارًا ʔaḵbāran	الْأَخْبَارَ al-ʔaḵbāra	أَخْبَارَ ʔaḵbāra
Genitive	أَخْبَارٍ ʔaḵbārin	الْأَخْبَارِ al-ʔaḵbāri	أَخْبَارِ ʔaḵbāri

Antonyms

• (statement): إِنْشَاء (ʔinšāʔ)

Descendants

• → Acehnese: haba
• → Armenian: խաբար (xabar)
• → Azerbaijani: xəbər
• → Bashkir: хәбәр (xəbər)
• → Indonesian: kabar, chabar (pre-1947, 1947-1972), khabar
• → Kazakh: хабар (xabar)
• → Khakas: хабар (xabar)
• → Kyrgyz: кабар (kabar)
• → Kumyk: хабар (xabar)
• → Malay: khabar
• → Ngazidja Comorian: haɓari
• → Nogai: хабар (xabar)
• → Pashto: خبر (xabár)
• → Persian: خبر (xabar)
  • Tajik: хабар (xabar)
  • → Assamese: খবৰ (khobor)
  • → Bengali: খবর (khobor)
  • → Gujarati: ખબર (khabar)
  • → Hindustani

    Hindi: ख़बर (xabar)

    Urdu: خَبَر (xabar)

    → English: kubber

  • → Marathi: खबर (khabar)
  • → Nepali: खबर (khabar)
  • → Northern Luri: خٱڤٱر (xavar)
  • → Punjabi:

    Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ਬਰ (xabar)

    Shahmukhi script: خَبَر (xabar)

  • → Telugu: కబురు (kaburu)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خبر (haber)
  • Turkish: haber
  • → Albanian: haber
  • → Belarusian: ха́бар (xábar)
  • → Bulgarian: хабе́р (habér)
  • → Crimean Tatar: haber
  • → Greek: χαμπάρι (champári)
  • → Ladino:

    Hebrew script: חאביר

    Latin script: haber

  • → Romanian: habar
  • → Russian: хаба́р (xabár)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: ха̀бер, а̀бер

    Latin script: hàber, àber

  • → Ukrainian: хаба́р (xabár)
• → Shor: қабар
• → Swahili: habari
• → Tatar: хәбәр (xäbär)
• → Turkmen: habar
• → Uyghur: خەۋەر (xewer)
• → Uzbek: xabar
• → Chuvash: хыпар (hyp̬ar)

Etymology 5

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xibr/
• IPA^(key): /xubr/

Noun

خِبْر or خُبْر • (ḵibr or ḵubr) m

1. verbal noun of خَبَرَ (ḵabara) (form I)
2. knowledge, information

Declension

Declension of noun خِبْر (ḵibr)‎; خُبْر (ḵubr)

Singular	basic singular triptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خِبْر‎; خُبْر ḵibr‎; ḵubr	الْخِبْر‎; الْخُبْر al-ḵibr‎; al-ḵubr	خِبْر‎; خُبْر ḵibr‎; ḵubr
Nominative	خِبْرٌ‎; خُبْرٌ ḵibrun‎; ḵubrun	الْخِبْرُ‎; الْخُبْرُ al-ḵibru‎; al-ḵubru	خِبْرُ‎; خُبْرُ ḵibru‎; ḵubru
Accusative	خِبْرًا‎; خُبْرًا ḵibran‎; ḵubran	الْخِبْرَ‎; الْخُبْرَ al-ḵibra‎; al-ḵubra	خِبْرَ‎; خُبْرَ ḵibra‎; ḵubra
Genitive	خِبْرٍ‎; خُبْرٍ ḵibrin‎; ḵubrin	الْخِبْرِ‎; الْخُبْرِ al-ḵibri‎; al-ḵubri	خِبْرِ‎; خُبْرِ ḵibri‎; ḵubri

References

• Dozy, Reinhart Pieter Anne (1881) “خبر”, in Supplément aux dictionnaires arabes‎^[1] (in French), volume 1, Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 347
• Freytag, Georg (1830) “خبر”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[2] (in Latin), volume 1, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 455
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خبر”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[3], London: Williams & Norgate, pages 695–696
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خبر”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[4], London: W.H. Allen, page 311
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “خبر”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, pages 261–262

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Moroccan Arabic

Root
خ ب ر
1 term

Etymology 1

From Arabic أَخْبَرَ (ʔaḵbara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xbar/

Verb

خبر • (ḵbar) I (non-past يخبر (yiḵbar))

1. (transitive) to notify, to inform

   Synonym: علم (ʕlam)

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.bar/

• Audio:

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Verb

خبر • (ḵabar) m (plural خبار (ḵbār) or أخبار (ʔaḵbār))

1. report, message, notification
2. news
3. information

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Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar).

Noun

خبر • (haber)

1. news
2. information
3. advice

Descendants

• Turkish: haber
• → Albanian: haber
• → Belarusian: ха́бар (xábar)
• → Bulgarian: хабе́р (habér)
• → Crimean Tatar: haber
• → Greek: χαμπάρι (champári)
• → Ladino:

  Hebrew script: חאביר

  Latin script: haber

• → Romanian: habar
• → Russian: хаба́р (xabár)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: ха̀бер, а̀бер

  Latin script: hàber, àber

• → Ukrainian: хаба́р (xabár)

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Persian

Etymology

From Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar).

Pronunciation

Readings
Classical reading?	x
Dari reading?	x
Iranian reading?	x
Tajik reading?	x

Noun

Dari	خبر
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хабар

خبر • (xabar) (plural خبرها (xabar-hâ) or اخبار (axbâr))

1. news
2. information, intelligence, knowledge

Related terms

• خبرنگار (xabar-negâr)
• بی‌خبر (bê-xabar)
• چه خبر (che xabar)

Descendants

• Tajik: хабар (xabar)
• → Assamese: খবৰ (khobor)
• → Bengali: খবর (khobor)
• → Gujarati: ખબર (khabar)
• → Hindustani

  Hindi: ख़बर (xabar)

  Urdu: خَبَر (xabar)

  → English: kubber

• → Marathi: खबर (khabar)
• → Nepali: खबर (khabar)
• → Northern Luri: خٱڤٱر (xavar)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ਬਰ (xabar)

  Shahmukhi script: خَبَر (xabar)

• → Telugu: కబురు (kaburu)

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South Levantine Arabic

Root
خ ب ر
1 term

Etymology

From Arabic خَبَّرَ (ḵabbara).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xab.bar/, [ˈxab.bar]

• Audio (al-Lidd):

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Verb

خبّر • (ḵabbar) II (present بخبّر (biḵabber))

1. to inform, to let know

   Synonyms: عرّف (ʕarraf), بلّغ (ballaḡ)

Conjugation

Conjugation of خبّر (ḵabbar)
		singular				plural
		1st person	2nd person	3rd person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person
past	m	خبّرت (ḵabbart)	خبّرت (ḵabbart)	خبّر (ḵabbar)		خبّرنا (ḵabbarna)	خبّرتو (ḵabbartu)	خبّرو (ḵabbaru)
	f		خبّرتي (ḵabbarti)	خبّرت (ḵabbarat)
present	m	بخبّر (baḵabber)	بتخبّر (bitḵabber)	بخبّر (biḵabber)		منخبّر (minḵabber)	بتخبّرو (bitḵabbru)	بخبّرو (biḵabbru)
	f		بتخبّري (bitḵabbri)	بتخبّر (bitḵabber)
subjunctive	m	اخبّر (aḵabber)	تخبّر (tḵabber)	يخبّر (yḵabber)		نخبّر (nḵabber)	تخبّرو (tḵabbru)	يخبّرو (yḵabbru)
	f		تخبّري (tḵabbri)	تخبّر (tḵabber)
imperative	m		خبّر (ḵabber)				خبّرو (ḵabbru)
	f		خبّري (ḵabbri)

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Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian خبر (xabar), from Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xə.bəɾ/

Noun

خَبَر • (xabar) f (formal plural اَخْبَار (axbār) or خبریں, Hindi spelling ख़बर)

1. news

   Synonym: سَمَاچَار (samācār)

2. information, intelligence, knowledge
3. message, notification

References

• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خبر”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.