خطیب

See also: خطيب

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَطِيب (ḵaṭīb).

Noun

خطیب • (hatîb) (plural خطبا)

  1. a public speaker, an orator
  2. a good speaker
  3. (Islam) an official preacher who delivers khutbah before the Friday prayer

Descendants
  • Turkish: hatip

Further reading

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَطِيب (ḵaṭīb).

Pronunciation
 
  • (Dari, formal) IPA(key): [xä.t̪ʰíːb]
    • (Kabuli) IPA(key): [xä.t̪ʰíːb]
    • (Hazaragi) IPA(key): [xä.t̪ʰíb̥]

Readings
Classical reading? xatīḇ
Dari reading? xatīb
Iranian reading? xatib
Tajik reading? xatib

Noun
Dari خطیب
Iranian Persian
Tajik хатиб

خطیب • (xatib) (plural خطبا (xotabâ))

  1. a public speaker, an orator

Urdu

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Persian خطیب (xat̤īb), itself from Arabic خَطِيب (ḵaṭīb).

Pronunciation
  • (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /xə.t̪iːb/
  • (common) IPA(key): /xə.t̪eːb/
  • Rhymes: -iːb, -eːb
  • Hyphenation: خَ‧طیب

Noun

خَطِیب or خَطیب • (xatīb or xateb) m (formal plural خطبا, feminine خطیبہ, Hindi spelling ख़तीब or ख़तेब)

  1. (religion) an orator, preacher (one who delivers a sermon)
  2. representative (one who speaks for a community; group)
  3. (figuratively) a reader

Declension
Declension of خطیب
singular plural
direct خطیب (xatīb) خطیب (xatīb)
oblique خطیب (xatīb) خطیبوں (xatībō̃)
vocative خطیب (xatīb) خطیبو (xatībō)

Further reading
  • “خطیب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
  • “خطیب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2024.
  • Qureshi, Bashir Ahmad (1971) “خطیب”, in Kitabistan's 20th Century Standard Dictionary‎, Lahore: Kitabistan Pub. Co.
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