khutbah
/ˈkʊtbə/noun
khutbah is a noun meaning “A talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer, or at other special occasions” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-U-T-B-A-H, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khutbah is khutbahs.
What does khutbah mean?
noun
- 1
A talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer, or at other special occasions.
Save your khutbah for another time.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce khutbah?
- /ˈkʊtbə/
- /ˈxʊtbə/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-khutbah.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of khutbah
- khutbahs plural
- khotbah
- khotbeh
- khutba
- khutbeh
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is khutbah?
Khutbah appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 165,739th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Khutbah in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense talk or sermon delivered in mosques before the Friday prayer:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | khotba |
| Portuguese | khutba |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does khutbah come from?
Borrowed from Arabic خُطْبَة (ḵuṭba).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).