ख़ता

• (Standard Hindi) IPA^(key): /xə.t̪ɑː/, [xɐ.t̪äː], /kʰə.t̪ɑː/, [kʰɐ.t̪äː]
• Rhymes: -ɑː
• Hyphenation: ख़‧ता

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطَا (xatā), from Arabic خَطَأ (ḵaṭaʔ). First attested in c. 1578^[1] as Middle Hindi خطا (xt̤a /⁠xatā⁠/).

ख़ता • (xatā) f (Urdu spelling خَطا)

1. a mistake; error; fault

   Synonyms: अपराध (aprādh), क़सूर (qasūr), ग़लती (ġaltī)

2. sin, crime

   Synonyms: गुनाह (gunāh), अपराध (aprādh)

3. oversight, slip
4. a miss (of a target etc.)
5. incorrect, wrong

   Synonyms: ग़लत (ġalat), भूल (bhūl)

6. (mathematics, logic) counterexample
7. (geology) This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

• ख़ता करना (xatā karnā)

• “ख़ता”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2026.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971), “ख़ता”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884), “ख़ता”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• Fallon, S. W. (1879), “ख़ता”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834), “ख़ता”, 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
• McGregor, Ronald Stuart (1993), “ख़ता”, in The Oxford Hindi-English Dictionary, London: Oxford University Press

Borrowed from Arabic خَطَا (ḵaṭā).

ख़ता • (xatā) ? (Urdu spelling خَطا)

1. Cathay, northern China

• ख़ताई (xatāī)

• Platts, John T. (1884), “ख़ता”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.