خوشبو

Persian

Alternative forms

  • خوشبوی (xošbuy)

Etymology

From خوش (xoš) +‎ بو (bu).

Pronunciation

 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [xʊʃ.boː], [xʊʃ.buːj], [xʊʃ.buː]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [xʊʃ.boː], [xʊʃ.buːj], [xʊʃ.buː]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [xuʃ.bʊː], [xuʃ.buj], [xuʃ.bu]

Readings
Classical reading? xwašbō, xwašbōy
Dari reading? xušbō, xušbūy, xušbū
Iranian reading? xošbu, xošbuy
Tajik reading? xušbü, xušbüy

Adjective

Dari خوشبو
Iranian Persian
Tajik хушбӯ, хушбӯй

خوشبو • (xošbu)

  1. sweet-smelling, fragrant
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 206:
      نیافتم چو رخت ای پری گلی خوشبو
      بیاد وصل تو هرچند در چمن گشتم
      na-yāftam čū ruxat ay parī gulē xwašbō
      ba-yād-i wasl-i tō harčand dar čaman gaštam
      I did not find a rose as fragrant as your cheeks, o fairy,
      Though I went to the meadow in memory of my reunion with you.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)

Noun

خوشبو • (xošbu)

  1. fragrance, perfume

Descendants

  • → Bengali: খোশবু (khošbu)
  • → Hindustani:
    Hindi: ख़ुशबू (xuśbū)
    Urdu: خوشبو (xuśbū)
  • → Punjabi:
    Gurmukhi script: ਖੁਸ਼ਬੂ (khuśbū)
    Shahmukhi script: خوشبو (xuśbū)
  • → Turkmen: hoşboý

Further reading

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خوشبو (xʷašbu). By surface analysis, خوش (xuš, “pleasant; sweet”) +‎ بو (bū, “smell, scent”). First attested in c. 1564 as Middle Hindi خوشبو (xvśbv).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

خُوشْبُو • (xūśbū) f (Hindi spelling ख़ुशबू)

  1. pleasant-smell; sweet-smell
    اس کی داڑھی سے خوشبو آ رہی تھی
    us ke dāṛhī se xuśbū ā rahī thī
    a pleasant-smell was coming off his beard
  2. fragrance, scent; odor, aroma
    تیری خوشبو جنت کی ہے
    terī xuśbū jannat kī hai
    your fragrance is that of paradise
  3. perfume, cologne

Antonyms

Derived terms

  • خوشبوئی (xuśbuī, “fragrance”)
  • خوشبودار (xuśbūdār, “fragrant”)
  • خوشبو دانہ (xuśbū-dāna, “incense”)
  • خوشبو ساز (xuśbū-sāz, “perfumer”)
  • خوشبو خانہ (xuśbū-xāna)

References

  1. ^ “خوشبو”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.

Further reading

More information
  • “خوشبو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “خوشبو”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
  • Platts, John T. (1884), “خوشبو”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
  • Fallon, S. W. (1879), “خوشبو”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
  • John Shakespear (1834), “خوشبو”, 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
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