See also: کاتب

Arabic

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Root
ك ت ب (k t b)
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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Verb

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

  1. to keep up a correspondence, to correspond with
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Etymology 2

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

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Adjective

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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
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Noun

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كَاتِب (kātibm (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.
 
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Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic كَاتِب (kātib).

Noun

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كاتِب (kâtib) (plural كُتّاب (küttâb))

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

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