кітаб

Belarusian

Etymology

Ultimately from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kʲiˈtap]

Noun

кіта́б • (kitáb) m inan (genitive кіта́ба, nominative plural кіта́бы, genitive plural кіта́баў)

1. (historical) a Muslim religious book written in Old Belarusian using the Belarusian Arabic alphabet

Declension

Declension of кіта́б (inan hard masc-form accent-a)

	singular	plural
nominative	кіта́б kitáb	кіта́бы kitáby
genitive	кіта́ба kitába	кіта́баў kitábaŭ
dative	кіта́бу kitábu	кіта́бам kitábam
accusative	кіта́б kitáb	кіта́бы kitáby
instrumental	кіта́бам kitábam	кіта́бамі kitábami
locative	кіта́бе kitábje	кіта́бах kitábax
count form	—	кіта́бы1 kitáby1

¹Used with the numbers 2, 3, 4 and higher numbers after 20 ending in 2, 3, and 4.

References

• “кітаб” in Belarusian–Russian dictionaries and Belarusian dictionaries at slounik.org
• “кітаб”, in Skarnik's Belarusian dictionary (in Belarusian), based on Kandrat Krapiva's Explanatory Dictionary of the Belarusian Language (1977-1984)