خیابان

Persian

Alternative forms

• خیابون (xiyâbun) (colloquial Tehrani)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xi.jɑː.ˈβɑːn]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xi.jɑː.bɑ́ːn]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xi.jɑː.bɑ́ːn]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xi.jɑː.bɑ́ːn]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xi.jɔː.bɔ́ːn]

 

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xi.jɒː.bɒ́ːn]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xi.jɒː.bɒ́ːn]
  • (Tehrani) IPA^(key): [xi.jɒː.búːn]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χi.jɔ.bɔ́n]

Readings
Classical reading?	xiyāḇān
Dari reading?	xiyābān
Iranian reading?	xiyâbân
Tajik reading?	xiyobon

• Audio (Iran):

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• Rhymes: -ɑːn, (Tehrani) -uːn

Noun

Dari	خیابان
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хиёбон

خیابان • (xiyâbân) (plural خیابان‌ها (xiyâbân-hâ))

1. road
2. street
3. avenue

Descendants

• → Georgian: ხეივანი (xeivani)

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خیابان (xiyābān).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xɪ.jɑː.bɑːn/
• Rhymes: -ɑːn
• Hyphenation: خِ‧یا‧بان

Noun

خِیابان • (xiyābān) m (Hindi spelling ख़ियाबान)

1. avenue, a broad road, a wide street
2. (a path between) a parterre, flower garden.

   Synonyms: چَمَن (caman), گُلِسْتاں (gulistā̃), گُلِسْتان (gulistān)

Declension

Declension of خیابان
	singular	plural
direct	خیابان (xiyābān)	خیابان (xiyābān)
oblique	خیابان (xiyābān)	خیابانوں (xiyābānõ)
vocative	خیابان (xiyābān)	خیابانو (xiyābāno)

Further reading

• “خیابان”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خیابان”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خيابان”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “خيابان”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.