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كاتب
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See also: کاتب
Arabic
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
Verb
كَاتَبَ • (kātaba) III (non-past يُكَاتِبُ (yukātibu), verbal noun مُكَاتَبَة (mukātaba))
- to keep up a correspondence, to correspond with
Conjugation
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))
- active participle of كَتَبَ (kataba): writing
Declension
Derived terms
- آلَة كَاتِبَة (ʔāla kātiba)
Noun
كَاتِب • (kātib) m (plural كُتَّاب (kuttāb) or كَتَبَة (kataba), feminine كَاتِبَة (kātiba))
- writer; author
- Synonym: مُؤَلِّف (muʔallif)
- 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)
- clerk
- secretary bird, a bird of the species Sagittarius serpentarius.
Declension
Further reading
كاتب (طائر) on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ar
Descendants
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Ottoman Turkish
Etymology
Noun
كاتِب • (kâtib) (plural كُتّاب (küttâb))
- secretary, especially in a government office
- clerk
- writer
Derived terms
- كاتبلك (katiblik)
Descendants
- Turkish: kâtip
References
- Kélékian, Diran (1911), “كاتب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 1004a
- Redhouse, James W. (1890), “كاتب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon, Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1513
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