# خالق
## Arabic
### Etymology

Derived from the active participle of خَلَقَ (ḵalaqa, “to create”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xaː.liq/

### Adjective

خَالِق • (ḵāliq) (feminine خَالِقَة (ḵāliqa), masculine plural خَالِقُون (ḵāliqūn), feminine plural خَالِقَات (ḵāliqāt))
* creative

#### Declension
### Noun

خَالِق • (ḵāliq) m (plural خَالِقُون (ḵāliqūn), feminine خَالِقَة (ḵāliqa))
* Creator, Maker (God)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 59:24:هُوَ ٱللّٰهُ ٱلْخَالِقُ ٱلْبَارِئُ ٱلْمُصَوِّرُhuwa llāhu l-ḵāliqu l-bāriʔu l-muṣawwiru(please add an English translation of this quotation)
** 1968 June [1958], Frank Allen, “نشأة العالم - هل هو مصادفة أو قصد؟ [Origin of the World – By Chance or Design?]”, in الدمرداش عبد المجيد سرحان, transl., edited by John Clover Monsma, اَللّٰهُ يَتَجَلَّى فِي عَصْرِ الْعِلْم [allāhu yatajallā fī ʕaṣri l-ʕilm], Cairo, Egypt: مؤسسة الحلبي وشركاه للنشر والتوزيع, translation of The Evidence of God in an Expanding Universe, page 6:أَمَّا الشَّمْسُ الْمُسْتَعِرَة وَٱلنُّجُومُ الْمُتَوَهِّجَةُ وَٱلْأَرْضُ الْغَنِيَّةَ بِأَنْوَاعِ الْحَيَاةِ، فَكُلُّهَا دَلِيلٌ وَاضِحٌ عَلَى أَنَّ أَصْلَ الْكَوْنِ أَوْ أَسَاسَهُ يَرْتَبِطُ بِزَمَانٍ بَدَأَ مِنْ لَحْظَةٍ مُعَيَّنَةٍ، فَهُوَ إِذًا حَدَثٌ مِنَ الْأَحْدَاثِ. وَمَعْنَى ذٰلِكَ أَنَّهُ لَا بُدَّ لِأَصْلِ الْكَوْنِ مِنْ خَالِقٍ أَزَلِيٍّ لَيْسَ لَهُ بِدَايَةٌ، عَلِيمٌ مُحِيطٌ بِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ، لَيْسَ لِقُدْرَتِهِ حُدُودٌ، وَلَا بُدَّ أَنْ يَكُونَ هٰذَا الْكَوْنُ مِنْ صُنْعِ يَدَيْهِ.ʔammā š-šamsu l-mustaʕira(t) wan-nujūmu l-mutawahhijatu wal-ʔarḍu l-ḡaniyyata biʔanwāʕi l-ḥayāti, fakulluhā dalīlun wāḍiḥun ʕalā ʔanna ʔaṣla l-kawni ʔaw ʔasāsahu yartabiṭu bizamānin badaʔa min laḥẓatin muʕayyanatin, fahuwa ʔiḏan ḥadaṯun mina l-ʔaḥdāṯi. wamaʕnā ḏālika ʔannahu lā budda liʔaṣli l-kawni min ḵāliqin ʔazaliyyin laysa lahu bidāyatun, ʕalīmun muḥīṭun bikulli šayʔin, laysa liqudratihi ḥudūdun, walā budda ʔan yakūna hāḏā l-kawnu min ṣunʕi yadayhi.[original: The hot sun and stars, the earth with its wealth of life, are complete evidence that the origin of the universe has occurred in time, at a fixed point of time, and therefore the universe must have been created. A great First Cause, an eternal, all-knowing and all-powerful Creator must exist, and the universe if His handiwork.]
* inventor, maker, author

#### Declension
## Persian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَالِق (ḵāliq).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Persian) IPA: [xɑː.ˈliq]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xɑː.lɪ́q]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [xɑː.lɪ́q]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [xɑː.lɪ́q]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [xɔː.líq]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [xɒː.léɢ̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [χɔ.líq]

### Noun

خالِق • (xâleq)
* the Creator (God)
* creator, maker
    خالق این رمان ― xâleq-e in român ― creator of this novel

#### Descendants

* → Gujarati: ખાલિક (khālik)

## Urdu
### Etymology

Learned borrowing from Arabic خَالِق (ḵāliq).

### Pronunciation

* (Standard Urdu) IPA: /xɑː.lɪq/
* Rhymes: -ɪq

### Noun

خالِق • (xāliq) m (Hindi spelling ख़ालिक़)
* creator, an epithet for God
    مخلوق میں خالق کا نظر آیا جس کو اس دیکھنے والے نے خدا کو دیکھاmaxlūq mẽ xāliq kā nazar āyā jis ko us dekhne vāle ne xudā ko dekhāWho has seen the creator in the creation, that observer has seen God

#### Declension
### References

* “خالق”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
* “خالق”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.