خیال

From Arabic خَيَال (ḵayāl).

خیال • (hayal) (plural خیاللر)

1. dream

   Synonym: دوش (düş)

2. imagination

• خیالی (hayali)

• Turkish: hayal

Borrowed from Arabic خَيال (ḵayāl).

خَیال • (xiyâl) (plural خیالات (xiyâlât))

1. imagination; fiction; reverie; fantasy

   Synonyms: تصور (tasavvor), وهم (vahm)

   خیال کودکانه ― xiyâl-e kudakâne ― childlike dream

   • c. 1380, Jahān Malik Khātūn, “Ghazal 267”, in دیوان جهان [Divān-i Jahān]‎^[1]:

     ای دوست خیال مهر رویت
     از دیده‌ی ما دمی جدا نیست

     ay dōst xayāl-i mihr-i rōy-at
     az dīda-yi mā damē judā nēst

     O beloved! Daydreams of love from your face
     Will not leave my eyes for a single moment.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. idea; thought; plan, intention

   Synonyms: فکر (fekr), اندیشه (andiše), پندار (pendâr)

   با خیال راحت ― bâ xiyâl-e râhat ― peacefully, with a peaceful mind

   خیال سفر دارم. ― xiyâl-e safar dâram. ― I'm thinking about traveling.

3. illusion; phantom; apparition

• → Bengali: খেয়াল (kheẏal)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़याल (xayāl), ख़्याल (xyāl), खयाल (khayāl), ख्याल (khyāl)

  Urdu: خَیال (xayāl)

  • → Ushojo: خیال

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ਿਆਲ (xiāla)

  Shahmukhi script: خیال (xeyāl)

• Sylheti: ꠈꠤꠀꠟ (kíal)

• IPA^(key): [xi.jɒ́ːl̥]

خِیال • (xiyâl)

1. (Isfahan, Mashhad) dialectal form of خیار (xiyâr, “cucumber”)

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَیال, borrowed from Arabic خَيال (ḵayāl).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xə.jɑːl/, /xjɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl

خَیال • (xayāl) m (formal plural خیالات (xyālāt), Hindi spelling ख़याल)

1. idea
2. thought, opinion

   آپ کا کیا خیال ہے؟

   āp kā kyā xayāl hai?

   What do you think?

3. imagination

   یہ سب کچھ تمہارے خیالوں میں ہے!

   yih sab kuch tumhāre xayālō̃ mẽ hai!

   This is all in your imagination!

4. care; regard; concern

   تم اپنی بہن کا خیال نہیں رکھتے۔

   tum apnī bahan ka xayāl nahī̃ rakhte.

   You don't take care of your sister.

5. (music) a genre – khyal

• → Ushojo: خیال

• “خیال”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خیال”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.

From Urdu خیال (xayāl), from Arabic خَيَال (ḵayāl).

خیال (xyāl)

1. thought, opinion
2. imagination