خراب

From the root خ ر ب‎ (ḵ-r-b).

• IPA^(key): /xa.raːb/

خَرَاب • (ḵarāb) m

1. (uncountable) ruin, wreck
2. (uncountable) ruination, wreckage, desolation

خَرَاب • (ḵarāb)

1. ruined, wrecked, destroyed

• → Azerbaijani: xarab
• → Northern Kurdish: xirab
• → Ottoman Turkish: خراب‎ (harâb)
  • → Armenian: խարաբ (xarab)
  • Turkish: harap
• → Persian: خراب‎ (xarâb)
  • → Bengali: খারাপ (kharap)
  • → Urdu: خراب‎ (xarāb)
  • → Northern Luri: خرۏ‎ (xerö)

Borrowed from Arabic خَرَاب‎ (ḵarāb, “ruined, wrecked”).

خراب • (harab)

1. ruined, desolated, devastated

   Synonyms: ویران‎ (viran), یباب‎ (yebab), ییقق‎ (yıkık)

2. uninhabited, having no inhabitants

   Synonym: چول‎ (çöl)

3. spoilt, marred, wasted
4. impoverished, dilapidated

خراب • (harab)

1. ruin, desolation, devastation, waste

   Synonym: تخریب‎ (tahrib)

2. impoverishment, immiseration, dilapidation
3. decline, decay, deterioration

• Turkish: harap
• → Armenian: խարաբ (xarab)

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007), “harap”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 1872
• Kélékian, Diran (1911), “خراب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français, Constantinople: Mihran, page 533
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687), “Desertus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum, Vienna, column 362
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680), “خراب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum, Vienna, column 1541
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–), “harap”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890), “خراب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 835

From Arabic خَرَاب‎ (ḵarāb).

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خراب • (xarâb)

1. ruined, devastated, demolished, destroyed

   Synonyms: ویرانه‎ (virâne), ویران‎ (virân)

2. drunk, intoxicated
3. spoiled
4. miserable
5. (chiefly Dari) bad

   Synonym: بد‎

خراب • (xarâb)

1. ruin, desolation

   Synonym: ویرانه‎ (virâne)

• خراب کردن‎ (xarâb kardan)
• خراب شدن‎ (xarâb šodan)

Borrowed from Persian خراب‎ (xarâb), from Arabic خَرَاب‎ (ḵarāb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xə.ɾɑːb/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /xə.ɾɑːb/
• Rhymes: -ɑːb

خراب • (transliteration needed) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़राब)

1. spoiled, ruined, damaged
2. bad, evil

   Synonym: بُرا‎

3. (food) rotten
4. (machinery) out of order, broken

• “خراب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “خراب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “خراب”, in Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.

From Urdu خراب‎ (xarāb).

خراب (xarāb)

1. spoiled, ruined, damaged, broken
2. bad, evil