خدا

• IPA^(key): /χu.dɑː/,

خُدَا (xudâ) (Tibetan script ཁུ༹་དཱ)

1. God

خدا • (xuda)

1. God, god

• ہدا (huda)

خُدا (Xudâ) (definite accusative خُداݧ)

1. Arabic spelling of Xudâ (“God”)

خدا (xda)

1. God, god

From Arabic أَخَذَ (ʔaḵaḏa). Compare Maltese ħa.

• IPA^(key): /xda/

خدا • (ḵda) I (non-past ياخد (yāḵud))

1. Alternative spelling of خدى (ḵdā)

• خدای (xudāy) (archaic)
• خداه/خذاه (xudāh/xuðāh)

From earlier خدای (xudāy), from Middle Persian (hwtʾy /⁠xwadāy⁠/, “lord”) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫑𐫇𐫅𐫀𐫏 (xwadāy)), with both religious and secular connotations. Rendered in Book Pahlavi as the ideogram (MRA) (Aramaic 𐡌𐡍𐡀 (mnʾ /⁠mara⁠/), also meaning "lord"), ultimately from Proto-Iranian *hwatā́wā (“lord, god”).

Cognates with Avestan 𐬓𐬀𐬜𐬀𐬙𐬀 (xᵛaδata, “self-determined”) (in the sense of "not dependent on anything/anyone"), Bactrian χοαδηο (xoadēo, “lord”), Northern Kurdish xwedê and Central Kurdish خوا (xwa), Sanskrit स्वधा (svadhā́). Also related to خود (xod, “self”), خدیو (xadiv, “lord, master”), خاتون (xâtun, “lady, noblewoman”).

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خُدا • (xodâ) (plural خدایان (xodâyân))

1. God (the singular divinity of monotheism)

   Synonyms: ایزد (izad), یزدان (yazdân), الله (allâh)

2. god, deity

   Synonym: اله (elâh)

3. (obsolete except as the second element of a compound) lord, patron, master, owner

• This is the normal word for "God" in Persian.

• → Azerbaijani: xuda
• → Balti: ཁུ༹་དཱ (xu dā)
• → Bashkir: хоҙай (xoźay)
• → Bengali: খোদা (khōda)
• → Chagatai: خدا
  • Uyghur: خۇدا (xuda)
  • Uzbek: xudo
• ⇒ Chinese:

  → Dungan: хўда (hwda), Хўда (Hwda)

  → Mandarin: 胡大 (Húdà) (often Lanyin and Zhongyuan), 胡達 / 胡达 (Húdá) (Yinchuan, Xining, Ürümqi, and Sokuluk)

• → Crimean Tatar: quday
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़ुदा (xudā)

  • → Romani: xulay

  Urdu: خدا (xudā)

• → Kamassian: кхудай (kʰudaj) (indirectly)
• → Karakalpak: quday
• → Kazakh: құдай (qūdai)
• → Khakas: худай (xuday)
• → Khalaj: Xudâ
• → Kyrgyz: кудай (kuday)
• → Kumyk: худай (xuday)
• → Ottoman Turkish: خدا
  • Turkish: hüda
• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖੁਦਾ (khudā)

  Shahmukhi script: خدا (xudā)

• → Southern Altai: кудай (kuday)
• → Shor: қудай
• → Tatar: ходай (xoday)
• → Turkmen: hudaý

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xwadāy”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95

Urdu Wikipedia has an article on:

خدا

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Borrowed from Classical Persian خدا (xudā).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xʊ.d̪ɑː/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː

خُدا • (xudā) m (Hindi spelling ख़ुदा)

1. God

   مخلوق میں خالق کا نظر آیا جس کو اس دیکھنے والے نے خدا کو دیکھا۔

   maxlūq mẽ xāliq kā nazar āyā jis ko us dekhne vāle ne xudā ko dekhā.

   Who has seen the creator in the creation, that observer has seen God.

2. god

   تمہارا یہ پتھر کا خدا کیا کر سکتا ہے؟

   tumhārā ye paththar kā xudā kyā kar saktā hai?

   What can this god of stone of yours do?

3. lord
4. master, owner
5. (figurative) husband

• (God): اللہ (allā, allāh), الٰہ (ilāh)
• ایشور (īśvar)

• خدا حافظ (xudā hāfiz)

• “خدا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خدا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خدا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.