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Pashto
Etymology
From Classical Persian خوَراک (xwarāk).
Noun
خوراک • (xwarā́k, xorā́k) m
- food
Persian
Etymology
خور + ـاک. From Middle Persian xwār meaning food, Akin to Old Armenian խորակ (xorak), an Iranian borrowing.
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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xwarāk
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| Dari reading?
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xōrāk, xurāk
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| Iranian reading?
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xorâk
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| Tajik reading?
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xurok
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Noun
خوراک • (xorâk)
- (Dari or archaic) food, victuals, provisions
- Synonyms: غذا, طعام
خوراک تیار خوش داری؟ (Formal Dari)- xōrāk-i tayyār xōš dārī?
- Do you like fast food?
- daily bread, eatables
Derived terms
- خوراکی (xorâki, “food, meal, nourishment”)
References
Punjabi
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian خوراک (xwarāk).
Noun
خُراک • (xurāk) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ੁਰਾਕ)
- food
Saraiki
Etymology
From Classical Persian خوراک (xwārāk).
Pronunciation
Noun
خُوراک (xūrāk) f
- food
Sindhi
Etymology
From Classical Persian خوراک (xwarāk).
Noun
خوراک • (xorākh)
- food
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian خوراک. First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi خوراک (xorāk)
Pronunciation
Noun
خوراک • (xorāk) f (Hindi spelling ख़ुराक)
- victuals, meal, food (for humans, animals, or plants etc.)
- Synonyms: کھانا (khānā), غَذا (ġazā)
- one's appetite or diet
- (medicine) dose
- expenses (of an employee etc.)
Declension
| Declension of خوراک
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singular
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plural
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| direct
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خوراک (xorāk)
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خوراکیں (xorākẽ)
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| oblique
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خوراک (xorāk)
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خوراکوں (xorākõ)
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| vocative
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خوراک (xorāk)
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خوراکو (xorāko)
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Further reading
- “خوراک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “خوراک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خوراک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “خوراک”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “خوراک”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “خوراک”, 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