خستہ

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَسْتَه (xasta). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi خستہ (xsth /⁠xasta⁠/).^[1]

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xəs.t̪ɑ(ː)/
• Hyphenation: خَس‧تَہ

خَسْتَہ • (xasta) (indeclinable, Hindi spelling ख़स्ता)

1. deteriorated, poor (of quality)
2. weak; feeble; injured (of a person)
3. (by extension, figuratively) severely ill
4. (botany) fragile

• “خستہ”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “خستہ”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “خسته”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co., page 490
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “خسته”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co., page 599
• John Shakespear (1834), “خسته”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC, page 805