خوف — English and Urdu Meaning, Phonetics and Definition
خوف (xauf) is a Pashto n-m meaning “fear, terror” in English او په اردو کې د «آسنکا، خوف، ڈر» معنی لري. Documented in the Open Pashto Lexicon with dual Kandahari and Peshawari phonetic standards, plural form خوفونه, and 8 verified thesaurus relations.
Meanings4
ماناوې او تعریفونهIdioms1
اصطلاحاتخوف په هک نو کښی دئ
Eastern Horror seized him
Thesaurus: Synonyms & Antonyms(مترادفات او متضادات)
Semantic lexical relations verified from Achakzai Pashto Thesaurus & corpus data
Grammar — Word forms
د کلمې ګردان او بڼېGrammatical Formحالت او بڼه | پښتو بڼهPashto Form | Phoneticتلفظ |
|---|---|---|
Dir Plural (-ūnah) | خوفونه | xauf-ūnah |
Obl Plural (-ūno) | خوفونو | xauf-ūno |
Animate Plural (-ān) | خوفان | xauf-ān |
Animate Obl Plural (-āno) | خوفانو | xauf-āno |
Vocative Singular (-a) | خوفه | xauf-a |
د کلمې اصل او ریښه(Word Origin & Etymology)کتل ▼
Arabic
Arabic (Raverty 1860)
Lexicographical Profile & Dialect Notes
علمي او ژبني معلوماتGrammar & Morphological Classification
The headword خوف (xauf) functions as a n-m 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.