خَبَرٌ news in Arabic
خَبَرٌ is how you say “news” in Arabic.
Root خ ب ر kh-b-r. noun (verbal noun / common noun). khabar.
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Meaning of news in Arabic
- news, information, a report
- knowledge or cognizance of a thing as verbal noun of khabira, 'he knew it'
Example sentence
قد كنا يا رسول الله نكذبك بما تأتينا به من خبر السماء،
We used to deny you, O Messenger of Allah, concerning what you brought us from the news of the heavens,
خَبَرِ news
khabar means 'news, report'; heading an 'of…' phrase with the next word; the noun after 'min'.
The English is machine-translated.
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How it is used
The root's core sense is knowing the internal, real state of something, not just surface facts — khabara/khabura mean 'to know' or 'to test and thereby find out'. Khabar as a noun is a piece of that knowledge: a report, an item of news, or a saying transmitted from someone.
Words from the same root
- أَخْبَرَ to inform, tell, let someone know
- اِخْتَبَرَ to test, try, examine
- خِبْرَةٌ experience gained through trial
- اِسْتَخْبَرَ to ask for news or information
- خَابَرَ to contract land for sharecropping
More example sentences
نطقت بفضله الْآيَات وَالْأَخْبَار
The verses and reports spoke of his virtue.
وَالْأَخْبَارُ and the reports
'And' plus a broken plural 'reports / hadiths', a second subject, nominative — the prophetic reports. Verses and reports together attest his merit.
يَأْتِيهِ الْخَبَرُ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ،
News will come to him from the sky.
الْخَبَرُ the news
Carries the attached 'the' and stands as the doer of the verb, its ending in the subject case. So although it comes after the verb, this is what actually arrives — the news that comes.
يَلْتَمِسُونَ الْخَبَرَ عَنْ رَسُولِ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ
They seek news about the Messenger of God, may God bless him and grant him peace.
الْخَبَرَ the news
The definite noun 'the news' is the thing being sought, and its '-a' ending marks it as the object of the verb before it. Arabic signals this receiving-the-action role by the vowel ending rather than by position alone.
Common questions
- How do you say "news" in Arabic?
- خَبَرٌ (khabar).
- What does the root kh-b-r (خ ب ر) mean?
- It centers on knowing, informing, and testing or trying something to learn its real state — from this come 'news' (khabar), 'to inform' (akhbara), and 'to test' (ikhtabara).
Related words
Definitions summarised from Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (E. W. Lane, 1863–1893).