خط

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”).

• IPA^(key): /xatˤ.tˤa/

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

• IPA^(key): /xatˤtˤ/

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خَطّ • (ḵaṭṭ) m (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

• Баранов, Х. К. (2011), “خط”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893), “خط”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, 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

• خط on the Arabic Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^ar

From Arabic حَطَّ (ḥaṭṭa) with an irregular change of ḥ > ḵ. Compare Sudanese Arabic خط (ḵaṭṭa, “to put”).

خط • (ḵatta) I (non-past يخط (yuḵutt))

1. to put, to place

From Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).

خط • (ḵatt) m (plural خطوط (ḵutūt))

1. line
2. (divination) geomancy

• Heath, Judith; Mahadi, Mahamat Zene (2021), Lexique Arabe Tchadien-Français‎^[2] (in French), 11th edition, N'Djamena, Chad: SIL Chad, page 83
• Pommerol, Patrice Jullien de (1999), Dictionnaire Arabe Tchadien-Français (in French), Éditions Karthala, →ISBN, page 1302

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).

خط • (ḫat)

1. line
2. writing
3. letter, missive

• Uyghur: خەت (xet)
• Uzbek: xat

From Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ).

• IPA^(key): /χətˤː/

خَط • (ḵaṭṭ) m (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 الخط ― lā tʕaddi l-ḵaṭṭ ― Don't skip the line

3. handwriting

   خطچ حلو ― ḵaṭṭič ḥilu ― Your handwriting is pretty

4. calligraphy
5. script

   خط الرقعة ― ḵaṭṭ ir-ruqʕa ― Ruqʿa script

6. (typography, computing) font

   خط مفتوح المصدر ― ḵaṭ maftūḥ il-maṣdar ― An 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

Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).

خط • (hat) (plural خطوط (hutut))

1. line (symbol)
2. (military) line
   • 1927 October, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Nutuk‎^[3], page 341:

     یونانلیلر، ۲۲ حزیران ٣٣٦ده (میلن) خطندن عمومی تعرضه كچدیلر.

     Yunanlılar, 22 haziran 336'da Milne hattından umumî ta'arruza geçtiler.

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3. line (railroad track)

• Turkish: hat
• → Laz: ჰათთი (hatti)

Borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).

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

1. line

   خط مستقیم ― xatt-e mostaqim ― straight line

   خط منحنی ― xatt-e monhani ― curved line

2. streak, stripe
3. handwriting, writing
4. script; writing system

   خط چینی ― xatt-e čini ― Chinese 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 yaġmâ

     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.

Borrowed from Classical Persian خَطّ (xatt), borrowed from Arabic خَطّ (ḵaṭṭ), from خَطَّ (ḵaṭṭa).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /xət̪/

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• Rhymes: -ət̪

خَط • (xat) m (Hindi spelling ख़त)

1. letter, correspondence

   Synonym: چِٹِّھی (ciṭṭhī)

• → Phalura: xat