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خشک

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Persian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Iranian *Hhúškah (dry), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas (dry), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- (to be dry).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xušk
Dari reading? xušk
Iranian reading? xošk
Tajik reading? xušk
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Adjective

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Dari خشک
Iranian Persian
Tajik хушк

خشک (xošk) (comparative خشک‌تَر (xošk-tar), superlative خشک‌تَرین (xošk-tarin))

  1. dry
  2. arid

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ੁਸ਼ਕ (xuśak)
    Shahmukhi script: خشک (xušk)

Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian خُشْک (xušk), from Proto-Iranian *Hhúškah (dry), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hsúškas (dry), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂sews- (to be dry). Doublet of سُوکھا (sūkhā, dried up).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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خُشْک (xuśk) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़ुश्क)

  1. dry
  2. parched
  3. withered

Further reading

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  • خشک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • خشک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خشک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884) “خشك”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 490
  • S. W. Fallon (1879) “خشک”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834) “خشک”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC