خواہ مخواہ

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خواه م‌خواه‎ (xʷāh ma-xʷāh, literally “willing (or) not willing, willy-nilly”).

Adverb

خواہ مَخواہ‎ • (xāh maxāh) (Hindi spelling ख़वाह मख़वाह)

  1. uncalled for, without reason, justification, provocation
  2. certainly, positively, absolutely, inevitably
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