خسر

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خسر

  • /xa.si.ra/

Where it comes from

Possibly related to Hebrew חסר (khasér, “absent, missing”) or Egyptian ḫsr (“to dispel, to drive away”).

verb خَسِرَ · ḵasira · يَخْسَرُ · خُسْرَان · خُسْر · خَسَارَة

  1. to lose
  2. to be deceived, beguiled, cheated, circumvented
  3. to err, go astray, deviate from the right way, to become lost
  4. to perish, die

Opposite: رَبِحَ, كَسَبَ, فَازَ

verb خَسَرَ · ḵasara · يَخْسِرُ · يَخْسُرُ · خَسْر · خُسْرَان

  1. to make defective or deficient
  2. to make (someone) lose
  3. to make (someone) err, go astray, to make (someone) become lost
  4. to make (someone) perish

verb خَسَّرَ · ḵassara · يُخَسِّرُ · تَخْسِير · مُخَسِّر

  1. to destroy, to make perish, to mar, to scathe
  2. to put afar, to alienate, to estrange, to remove
  3. to attribute error to, to claim to have gone astray, to impute loss to

noun خُسْر · ḵusr · الْخُسْر · خُسْرٌ

  1. noun from verb verbal noun of خَسِرَ (ḵasira) (form I)

noun خُسُر · ḵusur · الْخُسُر · خُسُرٌ

  1. noun from verb verbal noun of خَسِرَ (ḵasira) (form I)

noun خَسْر · ḵasr · الْخَسْر · خَسْرٌ

  1. noun from verb verbal noun of خَسَرَ (ḵasara) (form I)
  2. noun from verb verbal noun of خَسِرَ (ḵasira) (form I)

noun خَسَر · ḵasar · الْخَسَر · خَسَرٌ

  1. noun from verb verbal noun of خَسِرَ (ḵasira) (form I)

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In English

  • lose cease to have in one's possession or capability

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"خسر." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%AE%D8%B3%D8%B1. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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خسر. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%AE%D8%B3%D8%B1

Chicago

"خسر." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%AE%D8%B3%D8%B1.

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@misc{micwyn_2026,
  title = {خسر},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/ar/%D8%AE%D8%B3%D8%B1},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}

The meanings are in English: this language's words come from the English Wiktionary. From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Recordings from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own free license: Ar-خسر.ogg.