خاطب

Derived from the active participle of خَطَبَ (ḵaṭaba, “to propose to a woman (by a man or matchmaker), to give in marriage”).

خَاطِب • (ḵāṭib) m (plural خُطَّاب (ḵuṭṭāb) or خَاطِبُون (ḵāṭibūn), feminine خَاطِبَة (ḵāṭiba))

1. suitor (someone who asks a woman to marry him)
2. matchmaker
3. someone who promises his child in marriage
4. fiancé
5. speaker, preacher, orator
6. (Islam) deliverer of a khutbah
7. person in grammar

• Lane, Edward William (1863-1893) “خاطب”, in Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate.
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خاطب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[1], London: W.H. Allen
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “خاطب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN

خَاطِب • (ḵāṭib) (masculine plural خُطَّاب (ḵuṭṭāb) or خَاطِبُون (ḵāṭibūn))

1. betrothed, engaged
2. promising one's child in marriage

• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884) “خاطب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary‎^[2], London: W.H. Allen

خَاطَبَ • (ḵāṭaba) III (non-past يُخَاطِبُ (yuḵāṭibu), verbal noun خِطَاب (ḵiṭāb) or مُخَاطَبَة (muḵāṭaba))

1. to address

Borrowed from Arabic خَاطِب (ḵāṭib).

خاطب • (xâteb)

1. (Islam) preacher
2. speaker

From Arabic خَاطِب (ḵāṭib). Equivalent to the active participle of خطب (ḵaṭab, “to get engaged”).

• IPA^(key): /xaː.tˤib/, [ˈxɑː.tˤɪb]

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خاطب • (ḵāṭeb) (feminine خاطبة (ḵāṭbe), common plural خاطبين (ḵāṭbīn))

1. engaged