خیال

See also: حيال and خيال

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic خَيَال (ḵayāl).

Noun

خیال • (hayal) (plural خیاللر)

1. dream

   Synonym: دوش (düş)

2. imagination

Related terms

• خیالی (hayali)

Descendants

• Turkish: hayal

Persian

Etymology 1

Dari	خیال
Iranian Persian
Tajik	хаёл

Etymology tree

Arabic خَيال (ḵayāl)bor.

Persian خیال

Borrowed from Arabic خَيال (ḵayāl).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xa.ˈjɑːl]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xä.jɑ́ːl]

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xä.jɑ́ːl]
  • (Kabuli) IPA^(key): [xä.jɑ́ːl]
  • (Hazaragi) IPA^(key): [xä.jɔ́ːl̥]

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xi.jɒ́ːl̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χä.jɔ́l]

Readings

Classical reading?	xayāl
Dari reading?	xayāl
Iranian reading?	xiyâl
Tajik reading?	xayol

Noun

خَیال • (xiyâl) (plural خیالات (xiyâlât))

1. imagination; fiction; reverie; fantasy

   Synonyms: تصور (tasavvor), وهم (vahm)

   خیال کودکانه ― xiyâl-e kudakâne ― childlike dream

   • c. 1380, Jahān Malik Khātūn, “Ghazal 267”, in دیوان جهان [Divān-i Jahān]‎:

     ای دوست خیال مهر رویت
     از دیده‌ی ما دمی جدا نیست

     ay dōst xayāl-i mihr-i rōy-at
     az dīda-yi mā damē judā nēst

     O beloved! Daydreams of love from your face
     Will not leave my eyes for a single moment.

     (Classical Persian romanization)

2. idea; thought; plan, intention

   Synonyms: فکر (fekr), اندیشه (andiše), پندار (pendâr)

   با خیال راحت ― bâ xiyâl-e râhat ― peacefully, with a peaceful mind

   خیال سفر دارم. ― xiyâl-e safar dâram. ― I'm thinking about traveling.

3. illusion; phantom; apparition

Derived terms

• بى خیال (bi xiyâl)
• خیال بستن (xiyâl bastan, “to imagine, to fancy”)
• خیال کردن (xiyâl kardan, “to imagine, to suppose, to think”)

Descendants

• → Bengali: খেয়াল (kheẏal)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: ख़याल (xayāl), ख़्याल (xyāl), खयाल (khayāl), ख्याल (khyāl)

  Urdu: خَیال (xayāl)

  • → Ushojo: خیال

• → Punjabi:

  Gurmukhi script: ਖ਼ਿਆਲ (xiāla)

  Shahmukhi script: خیال (xeyāl)

• Sylheti: ꠈꠤꠀꠟ (kíal)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [xi.jɒ́ːl̥]

Noun

خِیال • (xiyâl)

1. (Isfahan, Mashhad) Dialectal form of خیار (xiyâr, “cucumber”).

Urdu

Etymology

Etymology tree

Arabic خَيال (ḵayāl)bor.

Classical Persian خَیالbor.

Urdu خَیَال (xayāl)

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَیال, borrowed from Arabic خَيال (ḵayāl).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xə.jɑːl/, /xjɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl

Noun

خَیال • (xayāl) m (formal plural خیالات (xyālāt), Hindi spelling ख़याल)

1. thought, opinion

   آپ کا کیا خیال ہے؟

   āp kā kyā xayāl hai?

   What do you think?

2. imagination

   یہ سب کچھ تمہارے خیالوں میں ہے!

   yih sab kuch tumhāre xayālō̃ mẽ hai!

   This is all in your imagination!

3. care; regard; concern

   تم اپنی بہن کا خیال نہیں رکھتے۔

   tum apnī bahan ka xayāl nahī̃ rakhte.

   You don't take care of your sister.

4. (music) a genre – khyal

Declension

Declension of خیال

	singular	plural
direct	خَیَال (xayāl)	خَیَال (xayāl)
oblique	خَیَال (xayāl)	خَیَالوں (xayālõ)
vocative	خَیَال (xayāl)	خَیَالو (xayālo)

Descendants

• → Ushojo: خیال

References

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

Ushojo

Etymology

From Urdu خیال (xayāl), from Arabic خَيَال (ḵayāl).

Noun

خیال (xyāl)

1. thought, opinion
2. imagination