خوراک

From Classical Persian خوَراک (xwarāk).

خوراک • (xwarā́k, xorā́k) m

1. food

خور +‎ ـاک. From Middle Persian xwār meaning food, Akin to Old Armenian խորակ (xorak), an Iranian borrowing.

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خوراک • (xorâk)

1. (Dari or archaic) food, victuals, provisions

   Synonyms: غذا, طعام

   خوراک تیار خوش داری؟ (Formal Dari)

   xōrāk-i tayyār xōš dārī?

   Do you like fast food?

2. daily bread, eatables

• خوراکی (xorâki, “food, meal, nourishment”)

• MacKenzie, D. N. (1971) “xwār”, in A concise Pahlavi dictionary, London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, page 95
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1892) “خوراك”, in A Comprehensive Persian–English dictionary, London: Routledge & K. Paul

Borrowed from Classical Persian خوراک (xwarāk).

خُراک • (xurāk) f (Gurmukhi spelling ਖ਼ੁਰਾਕ)

1. food

From Classical Persian خوراک (xwārāk).

• IPA^(key): /xuː.ɾaːk/

خُوراک (xūrāk) f

1. food

From Classical Persian خوراک (xwarāk).

خوراک • (xorākh)

1. food

Borrowed from Classical Persian خوراک. First attested in c. 1609 as Middle Hindi خوراک (xorāk)

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xʊ.ɾɑːk/
• Rhymes: -ɑːk

خوراک • (xorāk) f (Hindi spelling ख़ुराक)

1. victuals, meal, food (for humans, animals, or plants etc.)

   Synonyms: کھانا (khānā), غَذا (ġazā)

2. one's appetite or diet
3. (medicine) dose
4. expenses (of an employee etc.)

• “خوراک”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• “خوراک”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
• Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خوراک”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “خوراک”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• S. W. Fallon (1879) “خوراک”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
• John Shakespear (1834) “خوراک”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3^rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC