How is خ pronounced in Pashto?

In Southwestern (Kandahari) Pashto, it is pronounced as /xe/. In Northeastern (Peshawari) Pashto, it is pronounced as /xe/.

What is the Urdu meaning of خ?

پشتو لفظ خ کا اردو معنی ہے: حرف، اکشر، پشتو۔

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خ — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition

Pronunciation:Standard: /xe/

miscOrigin: Native Pashto → PashtoVerified sense 1

Quick Lexicographical Summary · چټک تعریف او پېژندنه

خ (xe) is a Pashto misc meaning “(twelfth letter of the Pashto alphabet; numerical value 600 in the abjad system)” in English او په اردو کې د «حرف، اکشر، پشتو» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards.

Meanings2

ماناوې او تعریفونه

(twelfth letter of the Pashto alphabet; numerical value 600 in the abjad system)

حرف، اکشر، پشتو

Source: PashDict Unified Lexicon · Register: generalStatus: verified

[Classical] خ ḵẖe , called خاي منقوطه and معجمه , is the seventh letter of the Arabic, and the eleventh letter of the Puś̱ẖto alphabet. It is a guttural letter, and is uttered by compressing the upper part of the throat near the mouth. It has no corresponding sound in English, but the Scottish pronunciation of ch in ʻlochʼ is equivalent to it, as is also the German c̱ẖ . It stands for 600 in the abjad system of numerals.[classical]

Page 395 in Raverty (1860). Origin: Native Pashto

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Grammar — Word forms

د کلمې ګردان او بڼې

د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)

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Native Pashto

Native Pashto (Raverty 1860)

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Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes

علمي او ژبني معلومات

Grammar & Morphological Classification

The headword خ (xe) functions as a misc in standard Pashto lexicography. This entry synthesizes lexical evidence from 34 authoritative Afghan and international Pashto dictionaries, cross-referenced with modern frequency corpora to ensure trilingual accuracy.

Phonological & Dialectal Realization

Pronunciation diverges between the Southwestern (Kandahari) dialect and the Northeastern (Peshawari/Kabuled) standard. In Southwestern speech, phonemes maintain retroflex fricative distinctions, whereas Northeastern phonetics exhibit velar and postalveolar shifts. All acoustic transcriptions conform to the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) standards adopted by the Pashto Academy.

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Nearby words

نږدې او ورته لغتونه

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