خوب

Borrowed from Persian خوب (xub).

خوب (xōb)

1. (with a following noun) good; someone or something good
2. well

From Middle Persian 𐭧𐭥𐭡 (xūb), from Old Persian [script needed] (*ʰuvāpa), from Proto-Iranian *HhuHā́pah, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *HsuHápas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁su- (“good”) +‎ *h₃épos (“work”). Compare Sogdian [script needed] (xwp).

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خوب • (xūb / xub) (comparative خوب‌تَر or بِهْتَر (bihtar / behtar), superlative خوب‌تَرین or بِهْتَرین (bihtarīn / behtarin), Tajik spelling хуб)

1. good
2. well
3. nice

• The comparative and superlative forms خوب‌تر (xub-tar) and خوب‌ترین (xub-tarin) are colloquial and informal. The formal and standard Persian equivalents are بهتر (behtar) and بهترین (behtarin).

• نیک (nik)
• نغز (naġz)
• به (beh)

• خوبانی (xubâni)

• Kazakh: құп (qūp)
• Kyrgyz: куп (kup)
• Urdu: خوب (xub)
• Uzbek: xoʻp

خوب • (xub)

1. well
2. nicely

• بد (bad)

• خوبی (xubi)

• → Bengali: খুব (khub, “very”)
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ੂਬ (xūb)

  Shahmukhi script: خوب (xūb)

• → Sylheti: ꠈꠥꠛ (kúb), ꠈꠥꠙ (kúf)

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خوب”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul
• Aryanpur-Kashani, Manoochehr (2005) The Aryanpur Progressive Persian–English Dictionary‎^[1], Tehran: Jahan Rayaneh, →ISBN
• Rubinčik Ju. A., editor (1985), “خوب”, in Persidsko-russkij slovarʹ [Persian–Russian Dictionary]‎^[2] (in Russian), 3rd edition, Moscow: Russkij jazyk
• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “خوب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim
• “خوب”, in Langenscheidt Universal-Wörterbuch Persisch, München: Langenscheidt, 2002, →ISBN

Borrowed from Classical Persian خُوب (xūb). First attested in c. 1421 as Middle Hindi خوب (xvb /⁠xūb⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xuːb/
• Rhymes: -uːb

خُوب • (xūb) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ूब)

1. good, well, in a good manner
2. (sarcastic) bad
3. pleasant
4. admirable
5. healthy
6. pious
7. reasonable

• خُوبْصُورَت (xūbsūrat)

خُوب • (xūb) (Hindi spelling ख़ूब)

1. very, many, much, a lot

   Synonyms: کافِی (kāfī), بَہَت (bahat), اَنیک (anek), بیش (beś)

خُوب • (xūb) (Hindi spelling ख़ूब)

1. good, excellent
2. wow, hurray, excellent
3. (sarcastic) great, excellent

• “خوب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
• Fallon, Platts, Qureshi, Shakespear (2024) “خوب”, in Digital Dictionaries of South Asia [Combined Urdu Dictionaries]