# خوشبو
## Persian
### Alternative forms

* خوشبوی (xošbuy)

### Etymology

From خوش (xoš) +‎ بو (bu).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [xʷaʃ.boː], [xʷaʃ.boːj]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xʊʃ.boː], [xʊʃ.buːj], [xʊʃ.buː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xʊʃ.boː], [xʊʃ.buːj], [xʊʃ.buː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [xʊʃ.boː], [xʊʃ.buːj], [xʊʃ.buː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [xuʃ.bʊː], [xuʃ.buj], [xuʃ.bu]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [xoʃ.buː], [xoʃ.buːj]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [χuʃ.bɵ], [χuʃ.bɵj]

### Adjective

| Dari | خوشبو |
| Iranian Persian | خوشبو |
| Tajik | хушбӯ, хушбӯй |
خوشبو • (xošbu)
* 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 گشتمna-yāftam čū ruxat ay parī gulē xwašbō ba-yād-i wasl-i tō harčand dar čaman gaštamI 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)
* fragrance, perfume

#### Descendants

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

### Further reading

* Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “خوشبو”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

## 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).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /xʊʃ.buː/
* Rhymes: -uː

### Noun

خُوشْبُو • (xūśbū) f (Hindi spelling ख़ुशबू)
* pleasant-smell; sweet-smell
    اس کی داڑھی سے خوشبو آرہی تھیus ke dāṛhī se xušbū ārhī thīa pleasant-smell was coming off his beard
* fragrance, scent; odor, aroma
    تیری خوشبو جنت کی ہےterī xušbū jannat kī haiyour fragrance is that of paradise
* perfume, cologne
    خوشبو لگانا، فرشتاوں اناxušbū lagānā, farištõ ānāput on perfume, the angels visit

#### Antonyms

* بد بو (bad-bū)

#### Derived terms

* خوشبوئی (xušbū'ī, “fragrance”)
* خوشبودار (xušbūdār, “fragrant”)
* خوشبو دانہ (xušbū-dāna, “incense”)
* خوشبو ساز (xušbū-sāz, “perfumer”)
* خوشبو خانہ (xušbū-xāna)

### References

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

### Further reading

* “خوشبو”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
* 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.
* S. W. Fallon (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