خاطئة

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See also: خاطئه and خاطیه

Arabic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Root
خ ط ء (ḵ ṭ ʔ)
10 terms

Adjective

خَاطِئَة (ḵāṭiʔaf

  1. feminine singular of خَاطِئ (ḵāṭiʔ)
Descendants
  • Ottoman Turkish: خاطئه (hâtı'a), (vulgar) خاطیه (hâtiye)

Further reading

  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “خاطئة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

Etymology 2

Root
خ ط ء (ḵ ṭ ʔ)
10 terms

Kazimirski and Lane considered this word to be an alternative (irregular) verbal noun of the verb أَخْطَأَ (ʔaḵṭaʔa). Quoting Penrice's definition of أَخْطَأَ (ʔaḵṭaʔa):

خَاطِئَةٌ said to be a v.a. Habitual sinfulness; or it may be regarded as the fem. of خَاطِئٌ and agree with ٱلأَفْعَالِ understood, as at 69, v. 9. Note: the ة is not unfrequently added to nouns to give intensity; .[1]

Noun

خَاطِئَة (ḵāṭiʔaf (plural خَاطِئَات (ḵāṭiʔāt))

  1. sin, sinfulness
    • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 69:9:
      وَجَاءَ فِرْعَوْنُ وَمَنْ قَبْلَهُ وَٱلْمُؤْتَفِكَاتُ بِٱلْخَاطِئَةِ
      wajāʔa firʕawnu waman qablahu wal-muʔtafikātu bi-l-ḵāṭiʔati
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension

References

  1. ^ Penrice, John (1873) “خاطئة”, in A Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran, page 43

Further reading

  • Kazimirski, Albin de Biberstein (1860) “خاطئة”, in Dictionnaire arabe-français contenant toutes les racines de la langue arabe, leurs dérivés, tant dans l’idiome vulgaire que dans l’idiome littéral, ainsi que les dialectes d’Alger et de Maroc (in French), Paris: Maisonneuve et Cie
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خاطئة”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
  • Penrice, John (1873) “خاطئة”, in A Dictionary and Glossary of the Koran