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

• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “خطیب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[1], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 856

Persian

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic خَطِيب (ḵaṭīb).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Persian) IPA^(key): [xa.ˈtiːβ]

 

• (Dari, formal) IPA^(key): [xä.t̪ʰíːb]

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

• (Iran, formal) IPA^(key): [xæ.t̪ʰíːb̥]

• (Tajik, formal) IPA^(key): [χä.t̪ʰíb]

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.