خدا
Balti
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /χu.dɑː/, [χu.dɑː]
- Hyphenation: خُ‧دَا
Persian
Alternative forms
- خدای (xodây) (archaic)
Etymology
From earlier خدای (xodây), from Middle Persian [script needed] (hwtʾy /xwadāy/, “lord”) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫑𐫇𐫅𐫀𐫏 (xwadāy)), with both religious and secular connotations. Rendered in Book Pahlavi as the ideogram [script needed] (MRA) (Aramaic 𐡌𐡍𐡀 (mnʾ /mara/), also meaning "lord"), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *hwatā́wā (“lord, god”).
Cognates with Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬜𐬀𐬙𐬀 (xᵛaδata, “self-determined”) (in the sense of "not dependent on anything/anyone"), Bactrian χοαδηο (xoadēo, “lord”), Northern Kurdish xwedê and Central Kurdish خوا (xwa), Sanskrit स्वधा (svádhā). Also related to خود (xod, “self”), خدیو (xadiv, “lord, master”), خاتون (xâtun, “lady, noblewoman”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Persian): IPA(key): /xudɑː/
- (Dari): IPA(key): /xʊdɒː/
- (Iranian Persian): IPA(key): /xodɒː/
- (Tajik): IPA(key): /xudɔː/
Inflection
Predicative forms of خدا (xodâ) | ||
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singular | plural | |
1st person (“I am, we are”) |
خدایم (xodâyam) خدام △ (xodâm) |
خداییم (xodâyim) |
2nd person (“you are”) |
خدایی (xodâyi) |
خدایید (xodâyid) خدایین △ (xodâyin) |
3rd person (“he/she/it is, they are”) |
خداست (xodâst) خداس، خدائه △ (xodâs, xodâe) |
خدایند (xodâyand) خدان △ (xodân) |
△ Colloquial. |
Related terms
Descendants
- Tajik: худо (xudo), Худо (Xudo)
- → Azerbaijani: xuda
- → Balti: ཁུ༹་དཱ (xu dā)
- → Bashkir: хоҙай (xoðay)
- → Bengali: খোদা (khōda)
- ⇒ Chinese:
- → Dungan: хўда (hwda), Хўда (Hwda)
- → Mandarin: 胡大 (Húdà) (often Lanyin and Zhongyuan), 胡達/胡达 (Húdá) (Yinchuan, Xining, Ürümqi, and Sokuluk)
- → Crimean Tatar: quday
- → Hindustani:
- Hindi: ख़ुदा (xudā)
- → Romani: xulay
- Urdu: خدا (xudā)
- → Kazakh: құдай (qūdai)
- → Karakalpak: quday
- → Khakas: худай (xuday)
- → Kyrgyz: кудай (kuday)
- → Kumyk: худай (xuday)
- → Southern Altai: кудай (kuday)
- → Shor: қудай
- → Punjabi:
- → Tatar: ходай (xoday)
- → Turkish: hüda
- → Uyghur: خۇدا (xuda)
- → Uzbek: xudo
References
- MacKenzie, D. N. (1971), “xwadāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian خدا (xudā).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /xʊ.d̪ɑː/
- (Deccani) IPA(key): /xʊ.d̪ɑː/
Audio (PK) (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː
Noun
خُدا • (xudā) m (Hindi spelling ख़ुदा)
- God
- مخلوق میں خالق کا نظر آیا جس کو اس دیکھنے والے نے خدا کو دیکھا۔
- maxlūq mẽ xāliq kā nazar āyā jis ko us dekhne vāle ne xudā ko dekhā.
- Who has seen the creator in the creation, that observer has seen God.
- god
- تمہارا یہ پتھر کا خدا کیا کر سکتا ہے؟
- tumhārā ye paththar kā xudā kyā kar saktā hai?
- What can this god of stone of yours do?
- lord
- master, owner
- (figurative) husband
Derived terms
- خدا حافظ (xudā hāfiz)
References
- “خدا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “خدا”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “خدا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.