خوبی

Persian

Etymology

From (xûb, “good”) +‎ (-i, nominalizing suffix).

Pronunciation

(Classical Persian) IPA^(key): /xuː.ˈbiː/

(Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xuː.bíː]
- (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xuː.bíː]
- (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xu.bí]

(Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xuː.bíː]

(Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χu.bí]

Readings
Classical reading^?	xūbī
Dari reading^?	xūbī
Iranian reading^?	xubi
Tajik reading^?	xubi

Noun


Iranian Persian	خوبی
Dari	خوبی
Tajik	хубӣ

خوبی • (xûbi)

goodness, kindness
fairness, beauty
- c. 1260s, Jalāl ad-Dīn Mohammad Rūmī, translated by Reynold A. Nicholson, مثنوی معنوی [Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi], volume I, verse 3492:
  اهل صیقل رسته‌‌اند از بوی و رنگ
  هر دمی بینند خوبی بی‌‌درنگ
  ahl-i-sayqal rasta-and az bôy u rang
  har dami bînand xûbî bê-dirang
  They that burnish (their hearts) have escaped from scent and colour:
  they behold Beauty at every moment without tarrying.

References

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