قطب

From the root ق ط ب (q-ṭ-b). The plant-name is suspect of an old Aramaic loan, preceding dissimilated Classical Syriac ܩܘܽܪܛܒܳܐ (qurṭəḇā) and ܛܘܽܪܒܳܐ (ṭurṭəḇā) (and ܩܘܽܛܒܳܐ (quṭəḇā), ܩܘܽܛܒܬܳܐ (quṭəḇtā, “puncture-vine”), possibly Arabisms), however already with the meaning specification, but agreeing with Biblical Hebrew קֹטֶב (qōṭəḇ), קֶטֶב (qeṭeḇ, “thorn”). Compare رَتَم (ratam) for a similar constellation.

قَطَبَ • (qaṭaba) I (non-past يَقْطِبُ (yaqṭibu), verbal noun قَطْب (qaṭb))

1. to gather, to collect, to bind together, to contract
2. (obsolete) to mix the wine, to fill it into its vessels in a blended state
   • a. 625, اَلأَعْشَى (al-ʔaʕšā)

     وَكَأسٍ كَعَينِ الديكِ باكَرتُ حَدَّها
     بِفِتيانِ صِدقٍ وَالنَواقيسُ تُضرَبُ
     سُلافٍ كَأَنَّ الزَعفَرانَ وَعَندَما
     يُصَفَّقُ في ناجودِها ثُمَّ تُقطَبُ

     wa-kaʾsin ka-ʿayni ad-dīki bākartu ḥadda-hā
     bi-fityāni ṣidqin wa-n-nawāqīsu tuḍrabu
     sulāfin ka-ʾanna az-zaʿfarāna wa-ʿindamā
     yuṣaffaqu fī nājūdi-hā ṯumma tuqṭabu

     There are stoops splendid like cock’s eyen, and I betook myself early to cross the border
     with friendly lads, where the bells are hit,
     where there is fore-must wine like saffron,
     and one clinks the beakers and then mixes the wine.

قَطَبَ • (qaṭaba) I (non-past يَقْطِبُ (yaqṭibu), verbal noun قَطْب (qaṭb) or قُطُوب (quṭūb))

1. to knit the eyebrows, to scowl

قَطَّبَ • (qaṭṭaba) II (non-past يُقَطِّبُ (yuqaṭṭibu), verbal noun تَقْطِيب (taqṭīb))

1. to scowl, to glower; to knit the brow, to frown
2. (obsolete) to mix the wine, to fill it into its vessels in a blended state
3. to bind or sew together

قُطْب • (quṭb) m (plural أَقْطَاب (ʔaqṭāb))

1. axis, axle
2. pivot, hub
3. (electricity, astronomy, geography) pole
4. (usually in the plural) leader, authority, leading personality, celebrity

• قُطْبِيّ (quṭbiyy, “polar”)

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܘܼܛܒܵܐ (quṭbā)
• → Azerbaijani: qütb
• → Bengali: কুতুব (kutub)
• → Chagatai: قطب
  • Uyghur: قۇتۇپ (qutup)
  • Uzbek: qutb
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: क़ुत्ब (qutb)
  • Urdu: قطب (qutb)
• → Israeli Hebrew: קֹטֶב (kótev)
• → Malay: kutub
  • Indonesian: kutub
• → Ottoman Turkish: قطب (kutb, vulg. kutub, kutup)
  • Turkish: kutup
• → Pashto: قطب
• → Persian: قطب (qotb)
• → Punjabi: قُطْب (qut̤b)
• → Sindhi: قطب
• → Tatar: котып (qotıp)

قَطْب • (qaṭb) m

1. verbal noun of قَطَبَ (qaṭaba) (form I)

قَطْب or قُطُب • (qaṭb or quṭub) m

2. puncture-vine (Tribulus spp.)

   Synonyms: شَرْشَر (šaršar), شَكُوهَج (šakūhaj), حَسَك (ḥasak)

• → Israeli Hebrew: קֹטֶב (kótev)
• → Tigre: ቅጠብ (ḳəṭäb), ቀጠብ (ḳäṭäb)

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قطب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎ (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 463
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “قطب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 905

قطب (plural قطب-قطب or قطب۲, informal 1st possessive قطبکو, 2nd possessive قطبمو, 3rd possessive قطبڽ)

1. Jawi spelling of kutub‎

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

قطب • (qutb) m

1. pole

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

قطب • (qotb) (plural قطب‌ها (qotb-hâ) or اقطاب (aqtâb))

1. pole

   قطب شمال ― qotb-e šomâl ― North Pole

2. (Sufism) saint; specifically, a high-ranking saint considered the "pole of the world".

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قطب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

قُطْب • (qut̤b) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਕੁਤਬ)

1. pole

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “قُطب”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

قُطِبُ • (transliteration needed) ?

1. pole

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “قُطِبُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “قطب”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qʊt̪b/, /qʊ.t̪ʊb/, /qʊ.t̪əb/

قُطْب • (qutb) m (Hindi spelling क़ुत्ब)

1. pole

• “قطب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “قطب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “قطب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary , Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.