East Ind. Also khuber, khab(b)ar. [Urdū (Pers., Arab.) khabar.] Information, news, report, rumor.
1878. Life in the Mofussil, I. 159 (Y.). ‘Khabar’ (news) of innumerable black partridges has been received.
1879. [G. Aberigh-Mackay], in Vanity Fair, 29 Nov., 299/1 (Y.). He will not tell me … what khabbar has been received.
1891. R. Kipling, City Dreadf. Nt., 75. Just fancy, among these five thousand people, what sort of effect the khuber of an accident would produce!
