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English
Etymology
From Hindi ख़बर (xabar) / Urdu خَبَر (xabar), from Persian خبر, from Arabic خَبَر (ḵabar). Doublet of gabber.
Noun
kubber (uncountable)
- (India, archaic) News.
1869, The Broadway, page 44:“The kubber is good, Sahib,” replied the veteran, […]
References
- Henry Yule, A C Burnell (1903) “kubber”, in William Crooke, editor, Hobson-Jobson , London: John Murray, , page 494.
- “Kubber” in [John Camden Hotten], The Slang Dictionary , 5th edition, London: Chatto and Windus, 1874, page 211.