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Persian
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic كَاتِب (kātib)
Pronunciation
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| Classical reading?
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kātiḇ
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| Dari reading?
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kātib
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| Iranian reading?
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kâteb
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| Tajik reading?
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kotib
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Noun
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کاتب
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| Iranian Persian
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котиб
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کاتِب • (kâteb) (plural کُتّاب (kottâb))
- scribe
Urdu
Etymology
Borrowed from Classical Persian کاتب (kātiḇ), from Arabic كَاتِب (kātib).
Pronunciation
Noun
کاتِب • (kātib) m (Hindi spelling कातिब)
- calligrapher
- amanuensis
- copyist
- clerk
Further reading
- “کاتب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
- “کاتب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
- Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “کاتب”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
- Platts, John T. (1884) “کاتب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
- S. W. Fallon (1879) “کاتب”, in A New Hindustani-English Dictionary, Banaras, London: Trubner and Co.
- John Shakespear (1834) “کاتب”, in A dictionary, Hindustani and English: with a copious index, fitting the work to serve, also, as a dictionary of English and Hindustani, 3rd edition, London: J.L. Cox and Son, →OCLC