خط

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Arabic

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Etymology

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From the root خ ط ط (ḵ-ṭ-ṭ). Cognate to Nabataean Aramaic 𐢊𐢋𐢋 (to pull out; to engrave), Jewish Babylonian Aramaic חֲטַט (ḥăṭaṭ, to dig out, to hollow out, to excavate), Classical Syriac ܚܰܛ (ḥaṭṭ, to dig out; to excavate; to carve), Akkadian 𒄩𒁕𒂅 (ḫa-ṭa-ṭu /⁠ḫaṭāṭu⁠/, to dig out; to dredge; to make an incision).

Pronunciation

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  • Verb: IPA(key): /xatˤ.tˤa/
  • Noun: IPA(key): /xatˤtˤ/
  • Audio:(file)

Verb

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خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) I (non-past يَخُطُّ (yaḵuṭṭu), verbal noun خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ))

  1. to draw a line
  2. to draw
  3. to write
  4. to carve, inscribe
  5. to outline, mark

Conjugation

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Noun

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خَطّ (ḵaṭṭm (plural خُطُوط (ḵuṭūṭ))

  1. verbal noun of خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa) (form I)
  2. (writing, railroad, telephony, supply) line
    • 2017 October 1, “تسرب خطوط الغاز بقرية "ترسا" فى الفيوم.. وقطع الخدمة لحين إصلاح العطل”, in Bawwāba Aḵbār Maṣr[1], archived from the original on 13 November 2017:
      وبالانتقال والفحص تبين تسرب غاز من المواسير الأرضية بخط الغاز الرئيسى المغذى للقرية.
      And through the passthrough and the inspection it came to light the leakage of gas from the earth pipes through the main gas supply line of the village.
  3. stroke
  4. stripe
  5. ridge
  6. handwriting
  7. calligraphy
  8. script

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Gulf Arabic: خط (ḵaṭ(ṭ))
  • Maltese: ħatt
  • Azerbaijani: xətt
  • Bashkir: хат (xat)
  • Northern Kurdish: xet
  • Ottoman Turkish: خط (hat)
  • Persian: خط (xatt)
  • Turkmen: hat
  • Uzbek: xat

References

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  • Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “خط”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
  • Lane, Edward William (1863) “خط”, in Arabic-English Lexicon[2], London: Williams & Norgate
  • Wehr, Hans (1979) “خط”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN
  • Wehr, Hans (1960) “خط”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz

Gulf Arabic

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Etymology

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Root
خ ط ط
1 term

From Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خَط (ḵaṭṭm (plural خْطوط (ḵṭūṭ))

  1. line
  2. queue, line (usually to refer to a line in a queue with multiple lines)
    Synonym: طابور (ṭābūr)
    لا تعدي الخطlā tʕaddi l-ḵaṭṭDon't skip the line
  3. handwriting
    خطچ حلوḵaṭṭič ḥiluYour handwriting is pretty
  4. calligraphy
  5. script
    خط الرقعةḵaṭṭ ir-ruqʕaRuqʿa script
  6. (typography, computing) font
    خط مفتوح المصدرḵaṭ maftūḥ il-maṣdarAn open-source font
  7. SIM card, (by extension) phone number
    اول ما توصول الكويت اشترلك خط يديد
    awwal mā tōṣaḷ li-kwēt ištar-lik ḵaṭṭ yidīd
    Buy yourself a new SIM card/phone number once you arrive in Kuwait
  8. (euphemistic, humorous) buttocks

Ottoman Turkish

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Etymology

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From Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).

Noun

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خط (hat) (plural خطوط (hutut))

  1. line (symbol)
  2. (military) line
  3. line (railroad track)

Descendants

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Persian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).

Pronunciation

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Readings
Classical reading? xatt
Dari reading? xatt
Iranian reading? xatt
Tajik reading? xatt

Noun

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Dari خط
Iranian Persian
Tajik хат, хатт

خط (xatt) (plural خطوط (xotut) or خط‌ها (xatt-hâ))

  1. line
    خط مستقیمxatt-e mostaqimstraight line
    خط منحنیxatt-e monhanicurved line
  2. streak, stripe
  3. handwriting, writing
  4. script; writing system
    خط چینیxatt-e činiChinese characters
    • c. 1011, Abu'l-Qāsim Firdawsī, “The Reign of Khusraw Nōshēnrawān”, in شاهنامه [Book of Kings]‎[4]:
      نبشت او بران نامهٔ خسروی
      نبود آن زمان خط جز پهلوی
      nibišt ō bar-ān nāma-yi xusrawī
      na-būd ān zamān xatt juz pahlawī
      He wrote an imperial book on it;
      In those times, there was no script except for Pahlavi.
      (Classical Persian romanization)
  5. written character; letter
  6. (poetic) down or fresh facial hair on an adolescent face (a mark of beauty)
    • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 112:
      چو خط که از لب لعلت دمد رقم نتوان کرد
      اگر شوند چو یاقوت قدسیان همه کاتب
      čū xatt ki az lab-i la'lat damad raqam natawān kard
      agar šawand čū yāqūt-i qudsiyān hama kātib
      When the hair blooms from your ruby lips, it cannot be written down
      Even were all the scribes to become like the Yāqūt of the angels.
      (Classical Persian transliteration)
    • c. 1911, Mohammad Hossein Âğuli Torki-ye Shirâzi, دیوان ترکی شیرازی[5]:
      چشم تو و خط و خالت ای بت رعنا
      برده زمن عقل و صبر و هوش به یغما
      čašm-e to o xatt o xâl-at ey bot-e ra'nâ
      borde zaman-e aql o sabr o huš be yağmâ
      Your eye and your down and your beauty-mark, o beautiful idol,
      Has carried off as plunder the time for reason and patience and wisdom.
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Descendants

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Urdu

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Classical Persian خط (xat), from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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خط (xatm (Hindi spelling ख़त)

  1. letter
  2. correspondence

Synonyms

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