# خدا
## Balti
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /χu.dɑː/, [χu.dɑː]

### Noun

خُدَا (xudâ) (Tibetan script ཁུ༹་དཱ)
* God

## Baluchi
### Noun

خدا • (xuda)
* God, god

### See also

* ہدا (huda)

## Khalaj
### Noun

خُدا (Xudâ) (definite accusative خُداݧ)
* Arabic spelling of Xudâ (“God”)

#### Declension
## Laki
### Noun

خدا (xda)
* God, god

## Moroccan Arabic

* Root
* ء خ د
* 3 terms

### Etymology

From Arabic أَخَذَ (ʔaḵaḏa). Compare Maltese ħa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xda/

### Verb

خدا • (ḵda) I (non-past ياخد (yāḵud))
* Alternative spelling of خدى (ḵdā)

## Persian
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

From earlier خدای (xudāy), from Middle Persian [script needed] (hwtʾy /⁠xwadāy⁠/, “lord”) (Manichaean Middle Persian 𐫑𐫇𐫅𐫀𐫏 (xwadāy)), with both religious and secular connotations. Rendered in Book Pahlavi as the ideogram [script needed] (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 (khoadēo, “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”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [xu.ðɑː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xʊ.d̪ɑː]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xʊ.d̪ɑː]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [xʊ.d̪ɑː]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [xu.d̪ɔː]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [xo.d̪ɒː]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [χu.d̪ɔ]
* Audio (Iran):(file)

### Noun

| Dari | خدا |
| Iranian Persian | خدا |
| Tajik | Худо, худо |
خُدا • (xodâ) (plural خدایان (xodâyân))
* God (the singular divinity of monotheism)
    Synonyms: ایزد (izad), یزدان (yazdân), الله (allâh)
* god, deity
    Synonym: اله (elâh)
* (obsolete except as the second element of a compound) lord, patron, master, owner

#### Usage notes

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

#### Derived terms

* خدابنده (xodâbande)
* خداحافظ (xodâhâfez)
* خداحافظی (xodâhafezi)
* خداوند (xodâvand)
* خدایی (xodâyi)
* دهخدا (dehxodâ)
* ناخدا (nâxodâ)
* کدخدا (kadxodâ)

#### Descendants

* → 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), 胡達 / 胡达 (Húdá) (often Lanyin and Central Plains)
* → 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

### References

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

## Urdu
### Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خدا (xudā).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /xʊ.d̪ɑː/
* Audio (Pakistan):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɑː

### Noun

خُدا • (xudā) m (Hindi spelling ख़ुदा)
* 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.
* 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?
* lord
* master, owner
* (figurative) husband

#### Synonyms

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

#### Derived terms

* خدا حافظ (xudā hāfiz)

### References

* “خدا”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “خدا”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.
* Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خدا”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.