خريطة

See also: خریطه

Arabic

Etymology

From the native Semitic root خ ر ط (ḵ-r-ṭ) meaning to peel or strip, to pare, to make sheets out of bark; with phono-semantic matching with Latin charta, from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs), in that sense a doublet of قِرْطَاس (qirṭās).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xa.riː.tˤa/

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Noun

خَرِيطَة • (ḵarīṭa) f (plural خَرَائِط (ḵarāʔiṭ))

1. map

   Synonym: خَارِطَة (ḵāriṭa)

2. sheet of skin, a leaf or strip, thin membrane
3. pouch, skin-bag, case or cover
   • c. 1200, يحيى بن محمد بن أحمد بن العوام [yaḥyā ibn muḥammad ibn ʔaḥmad ibn al-ʕawwām], edited by José Antonio Banqueri, كتاب الفلاحة [Book on Agriculture], volume 2, Madrid: Imprenta Real, published 1802^IA, Cap. 30, Art. 7, page 416:

     وَأَمَّا المُصَنَّبُ فَيُؤْخَذُ الصِنَابُ الْحَدِيثُ وَيُجْتَنَبُ الْقَدِيمُ وَيُغْسَلُ حَبُّهُ بِالْمَاءِ الْعَذْبِ وَيُجَفَّفُ ثُمَّ يُدْرَسُ وَيُغَرْبَلُ ثُمَّ يُعْمَدُ إِلَى الْمُصْطَارِ الْحُلْوِ الْغَايَةِ فِي الْحَلَاوَةِ فَيُمْلِئ مِنْهُ خَابِيَةً وَيُقَسَّمُ ذٰلِكَ الصِنَابُ أَقْسَامًا ثَلَاثَةً وَيُجْعَلُ كُلُّ ثُلْثٍ فِي خَرِيطَةٍ وَيُرْبَطُ فِي قَصَبَةٍ مِثْلَ مَا تَقَدَّمَ وَيُذْرَى مِن ذٰلِكَ الصِنَابِ عَلَى وَجْهِ الْمُصْطَارِ فِي أَعْلَا الْخَابِيَةِ حَتَّى يُسْتَرَ وَيَنْعَقِدَ.

     wa-ʔammā l-muṣannabu fayuʔḵaḏu ṣ-ṣinābu l-ḥadīṯu wa-yujtanabu l-qadīmu wa-yuḡsalu ḥabbu-hū bi-l-māʔi l-ʕaḏbi wa-yujaffafu ṯumma yudrasu wa-yuḡarbalu ṯumma yuʕmadu ʔilā l-muṣṭāri l-ḥulwi l-ḡāyati fī l-ḥalāwati fa-yumliʔ min-hu ḵābiyatan wa-yuqassamu ḏālika ṣ-ṣinābu ʔaqsāman ṯalāṯatan wa-yujʕalu kullu ṯulṯin fī ḵarīṭatin wa-yurbaṭu fī qaṣabatin miṯla mā taqaddama wa-yuḏrā min ḏālika ṣ-ṣinābi ʕalā wajhi l-muṣṭāri fī ʔaʕlā l-ḵābiyati ḥattā yustara wa-yanʕaqida.

     In what concerns the mustard preparation, one takes new mustard, avoiding the old, and cleans its grains with sweet water and dries them, then one threshes and sieves it, thereafter puts it to must of utmost sweetness, and it fills from it a vessel, and this mustard is dealt into three portions, of which all thirds are transferred into a pouch tied up with a cane in the way said earlier, and from this mustard one sews onto the must’s surface in the upper part of the vessel until it is covered and thickens.

4. (botany) pod, pericarp, capsule, skin or wrapping of a seed especially sesame

Declension

Declension of noun خَرِيطَة (ḵarīṭa)

Singular	singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَرِيطَة ḵarīṭa	الْخَرِيطَة al-ḵarīṭa	خَرِيطَة ḵarīṭat
Nominative	خَرِيطَةٌ ḵarīṭatun	الْخَرِيطَةُ al-ḵarīṭatu	خَرِيطَةُ ḵarīṭatu
Accusative	خَرِيطَةً ḵarīṭatan	الْخَرِيطَةَ al-ḵarīṭata	خَرِيطَةَ ḵarīṭata
Genitive	خَرِيطَةٍ ḵarīṭatin	الْخَرِيطَةِ al-ḵarīṭati	خَرِيطَةِ ḵarīṭati
Dual	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَرِيطَتَيْن ḵarīṭatayn	الْخَرِيطَتَيْن al-ḵarīṭatayn	خَرِيطَتَيْ ḵarīṭatay
Nominative	خَرِيطَتَانِ ḵarīṭatāni	الْخَرِيطَتَانِ al-ḵarīṭatāni	خَرِيطَتَا ḵarīṭatā
Accusative	خَرِيطَتَيْنِ ḵarīṭatayni	الْخَرِيطَتَيْنِ al-ḵarīṭatayni	خَرِيطَتَيْ ḵarīṭatay
Genitive	خَرِيطَتَيْنِ ḵarīṭatayni	الْخَرِيطَتَيْنِ al-ḵarīṭatayni	خَرِيطَتَيْ ḵarīṭatay
Plural	basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Construct
Informal	خَرَائِط ḵarāʔiṭ	الْخَرَائِط al-ḵarāʔiṭ	خَرَائِط ḵarāʔiṭ
Nominative	خَرَائِطُ ḵarāʔiṭu	الْخَرَائِطُ al-ḵarāʔiṭu	خَرَائِطُ ḵarāʔiṭu
Accusative	خَرَائِطَ ḵarāʔiṭa	الْخَرَائِطَ al-ḵarāʔiṭa	خَرَائِطَ ḵarāʔiṭa
Genitive	خَرَائِطَ ḵarāʔiṭa	الْخَرَائِطِ al-ḵarāʔiṭi	خَرَائِطِ ḵarāʔiṭi

Descendants

• → Azerbaijani: xəritə
• → Crimean Tatar: harita
• → Ottoman Turkish: خریطه (harita)
  • Turkish: harita
  • → Armenian: խարթա (xartʻa)
• → Pashto: خريطه (xaritá)
• → Persian: خریطه (xarite)
  • ⇒ Persian: خلیطه (xalīta), خلیته (xalīta), خلته (xalta), غلطه (ğalta)
    • Tajik: халта (xalta), халтача (xaltača)
    • → Shughni: خلته (xalta)
    • → Turkic:
      • Southern Altai: калта (kalta)
      • Azerbaijani: qaltaq
        • → Persian: غلتاق (ğaltāq)
      • Bashkir: ҡалта (qalta)
      • Chagatai: خلته (xalta)
        • Uyghur: خالتا (xalta)
        • Uzbek: xalta
      • Karakalpak: qalta
      • Kazakh: қалта (qalta)
      • Kyrgyz: қалта
      • Nogai: калта (kalta)
      • Turkmen: halta
      • → Old East Slavic: калита (kalita)
        • Old Ruthenian: калита (kalita), колита (kolita)
          • Belarusian: калита́ (kalitá)
          • Ukrainian: калита́ (kalytá)
        • Russian: калита́ (kalitá)
        • → Middle Low German: kalite
        • → Lithuanian: kolytà
        • → Latvian: kalīte
        • → Polish: kaleta, (dialectal) kalita, kalota, kalalka
• → Tajik: харита (xarita)
• → Tatar: харита (xarita)
• → Uyghur: خەرىتە (xerite)
• → Uzbek:

  Cyrillic script: харита (xarita)

  Latin script: xarita

• → Zazaki: xerite

References

• Wehr, Hans (1979) “خرط”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN