خراب

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See also: حراب

Arabic

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Root
خ ر ب (ḵ r b)
7 terms
خَرَاب

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خَرَاب (ḵarābm

  1. (uncountable) ruin, wreck
  2. (uncountable) ruination, wreckage, desolation

Declension

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Adjective

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خَرَاب (ḵarāb)

  1. ruined, wrecked, destroyed

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Descendants

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Ottoman Turkish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic خَرَاب (ḵarāb, ruined, wrecked).

Adjective

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خراب (harab)

  1. ruined, desolated, devastated
    Synonyms: ویران (viran), یباب (yebab), ییقق (yıkık)
  2. uninhabited, having no inhabitants
    Synonym: چول (çöl)
  3. spoilt, marred, wasted
  4. impoverished, dilapidated

Noun

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خراب (harab)

  1. ruin, desolation, devastation, waste
    Synonym: تخریب (tahrib)
  2. impoverishment, immiseration, dilapidation
  3. decline, decay, deterioration

Derived terms

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Descendants

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Further reading

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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic خَرَاب (ḵarāb).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xarāḇ
Dari reading? xarāb
Iranian reading? xarâb
Tajik reading? xarob
  • Audio (Iran):(file)

Adjective

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Dari خراب
Iranian Persian
Tajik хароб

خراب (xarâb)

  1. ruined, devastated, demolished, destroyed
    Synonyms: ویرانه (virâne), ویران (virân)
  2. drunk, intoxicated
  3. spoiled, rotten
  4. miserable
  5. (chiefly Dari) wrong; bad (not good)
    Synonym: بد
  6. (chiefly Dari) corrupt, wicked, bad
    Synonym: بد
  7. (chiefly Dari) out of order (machine, etc)
  8. (chiefly Tajik) thin, slim (not fat)
    Synonym: لاغر Antonym: فربه

Noun

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خراب (xarâb)

  1. ruin, desolation
    Synonym: ویرانه (virâne)

Derived terms

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Sindhi

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian خراب (xarāb).

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Adjective

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خَرَابُ (xarābu) (Devanagari ख़राबु)

  1. bad

References

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  • Khānu, Balocu (19601988) “خَرَابُ”, in Jāmiʻ Sindhī lughāta (in Sindhi), Hyderabad, Sindh: Sindhī Adabī Borḍ

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian خراب (xarāb), from Arabic خَرَاب (ḵarāb).

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Adjective

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خَراب (xarāb) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़राब)

  1. spoiled, ruined, damaged
  2. bad, evil
    Synonym: بُرا (burā)
  3. (food) rotten
  4. (machinery) out of order, broken
  5. volatile

Descendants

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Further reading

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  • خراب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • خراب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خراب”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “خراب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “خراب”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “خراب”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC

Ushojo

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Etymology

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From Urdu خراب (xarāb).

Adjective

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خراب (xarāb)

  1. spoiled, ruined, damaged, broken
  2. bad, evil