Top Qs
Timeline
Chat
Perspective

كاتب

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Remove ads
See also: کاتب

Arabic

More information Root ...

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

Verb

كَاتَبَ (kātaba) III (non-past يُكَاتِبُ (yukātibu), verbal noun مُكَاتَبَة (mukātaba))

  1. to keep up a correspondence, to correspond with
Conjugation
More information verbal noun الْمَصْدَر, active participle اِسْم الْفَاعِل ...

Etymology 2

Derived from the active participle of كَتَبَ (kataba, to write). Compare Hebrew כותב.

Pronunciation

Adjective

كَاتِب (kātib) (feminine كَاتِبَة (kātiba), masculine plural كَاتِبُونَ (kātibūna) or كُتَّاب (kuttāb) or كَتَبَة (kataba), feminine plural كَاتِبَات (kātibāt))

  1. active participle of كَتَبَ (kataba): writing
Declension
More information singular, masculine ...
Derived terms

Noun

كَاتِب (kātib) m (plural كُتَّاب (kuttāb) or كَتَبَة (kataba), feminine كَاتِبَة (kātiba))

  1. writer; author
    Synonym: مُؤَلِّف (muʔallif)
  2. copyist
    Synonym: ناسِخ (nāsiḵ)
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 2:283:
      وَإِن كُنتُمْ عَلَىٰ سَفَرٍ وَلَمْ تَجِدُوا كَاتِبًا فَرِهَانٌ مَّقْبُوضَةٌ
      wa-ʾin kuntum ʿalā safarin wa-lam tajidū kātiban farihānun mmaqbūḍatun
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  3. clerk
  4. secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.
Declension
More information singular, basic singular triptote ...
Further reading

Descendants

  • Azerbaijani: katib
  • Chagatai: کاتب
  • Malay: katib
  • Ottoman Turkish: كاتب (kâtib)
  • Persian: کاتب (kâteb)
    • Gujarati: કાતિબ (kātib)
    • Punjabi: کاتِب (kātib)
    • Urdu: کاتِب (kātib)
  • Turkmen: kätip
  • Tajik: котиб (kotib)
Remove ads

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From Arabic كَاتِب (kātib).

Noun

كاتِب (kâtib) (plural كُتّاب (küttâb))

  1. secretary, especially in a government office
  2. clerk
  3. writer

Derived terms

Descendants

References

Remove ads

Wikiwand - on

Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.

Remove ads