اخبار

اخبار (axbār)

1. officer

Borrowed from Arabic أَخْبَار (ʔaḵbār).

• Rhymes: -ɑːr

اخبار • (axbâr)

1. news (plural of خبر (xabar))
2. information
3. newspaper
4. histories, annals
5. traditions
   • c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3744:

     خویش را تاویل کن نه اخبار را
     مغز را بد گوی نی گلزار را

     xwēš rā tā'wīl kun na axbār rā
     maġz rā bad gōy na gulzār rā

     Alter yourself, not the Traditions (of the Prophet):
     abuse your brain, not the rose garden (the true sense).

• → Dogri: अखबार (akhbār)
• → Hindustani:

  → Hindi: अख़बार (axbār)

  → Urdu: اخبار (axbār)

• → Malvi: अखबार (akhbār)
• → Nepali: अखबार (akhbār)
• → Punjabi:

  → Gurmukhi script: ਅਖਬਾਰ (akhabār)

  → Shahmukhi script: اخبار (axbār)

• → Kazakh: ақпар (aqpar)

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “اخبار”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Classical Persian اَخْبَار (axbār), from Arabic أَخْبَار (ʔaḵbār).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /əx.bɑːɾ/

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• Rhymes: -ɑːɾ
• Hyphenation: اخ‧بار

اخبار • (axbār) m (formal plural اخبارات, Hindi spelling अख़बार)

1. newspaper

   Synonym: روزنامہ (roznāma)

2. (by extension) gazette, journal
3. (dated or formal) plural of خبر (xabar, “news”)

• اخبار نویس (axbār-navīs, “reporter, journalist”)
• اخبار نویسی (axbār-navīsī, “reporting, journalism”)
• خبر (xabar, “news”)
• اخباری (axbārī, “journalistic”)
• اخباری تھڑا (axbārī thaṛā, “news stand”)

• “اخبار”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “اخبار”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “اخبار”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.