خشک

From Proto-Iranian *Hhúškah (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas (“dry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- (“to be dry”).

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خشک • (xošk) (comparative خشک‌تَر, superlative خشک‌تَرین)

1. dry
2. arid

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਕ (xuśak)

  Shahmukhi script: خشک (xušk)

Borrowed from Classical Persian خُشْک (xušk), from Proto-Iranian *Hhúškah (“dry”), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas (“dry”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- (“to be dry”). Doublet of سُوکھا (sūkhā, “dried up”).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xʊʃk/
• Rhymes: -ʊʃk

خُشْک • (xuśk) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ुश्क)

1. dry
2. parched
3. withered

• “خشک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خشک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خشک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “خشك”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 490
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “خشک”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “خشک”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC