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khutbah

noun · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /ˈkʊtbə/
  • /ˈxʊtbə/
  • Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -ʊtbə

1

noun

Meaning 1

A talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer, or at other special occasions.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: Islam, lifestyle, religion

Examples

  • Save your khutbah for another time.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba).

Across languages

Translations

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: hytbe — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Arabic: خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Armenian: խուտբա (xutba) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Azerbaijani: xütbə — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Bashkir: хөтбә (xötbə) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Bengali: খুতবা (khutoba) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Bulgarian: ху́тба (hútba) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Chinese Mandarin: 呼圖白 /呼图白 — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Czech: chutba — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • French: khotba — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Gujarati: ખુતબો (khutbo) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Hebrew: חֻ׳טְבּה — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Hindi: ख़ुतबा (xutbā) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Indonesian: khutbah — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Indonesian: khotbah — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Indonesian: kotbah — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Javanese: kutbah — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Kashmiri: خۄطبہٕ (khọtbụ) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Kazakh: хұтба (xūtba) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Northern Kurdish: xutbe — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Kyrgyz: кутпа (kutpa) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Malay: khutbah — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Pashto: خطبه (xotbá) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Persian: خطبه (xotbe) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Polish: chutba — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Portuguese: khutba — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Russian: ху́тба (xútba) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Serbo-Croatian: хутба — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Serbo-Croatian: худба — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Serbo-Croatian: hutba — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Serbo-Croatian: hudba — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Swahili: hotuba — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Tajik: хутба (xutba) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Tatar: хөтбә (xötbä) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Tausug: hutba' — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Turkish: hutbe — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Urdu: خطبہ (xutba) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Uyghur: خۇتبە (xutbe) — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Uzbek: xutba — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer
  • Yakan: hutba' — talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer