قطب

From the root ق ط ب (q ṭ b). The plant-name is suspect of an old Aramaic loan, preceding dissimilated Classical Syriac ܩܘܽܪܛܒܳܐ (qurṭəḇā) and ܛܘܽܪܒܳܐ (ṭurṭəḇā) (and ܩܘܽܛܒܳܐ (quṭəḇā), ܩܘܽܛܒܬܳܐ (quṭəḇtā, “puncture-vine”), possibly Arabisms), however already with the meaning specification, but agreeing with Biblical Hebrew קֹטֶב (qōṭəḇ), קֶטֶב (qeṭeḇ, “thorn”). Compare رَتَم (ratam) for a similar constellation.

قَطَبَ • (qaṭaba) I (non-past يَقْطِبُ (yaqṭibu), verbal noun قَطْب (qaṭb))

1. to gather, to collect, to bind together, to contract, to concentrate at one point
2. (obsolete) to mix the wine, to fill it into its vessels in a blended state
   • a. 625, اَلأَعْشَى (al-ʔaʕšā)

     وَكَأسٍ كَعَينِ الديكِ باكَرتُ حَدَّها
     بِفِتيانِ صِدقٍ وَالنَواقيسُ تُضرَبُ
     سُلافٍ كَأَنَّ الزَعفَرانَ وَعَندَما
     يُصَفَّقُ في ناجودِها ثُمَّ تُقطَبُ

     wa-kaʾsin ka-ʿayni ad-dīki bākartu ḥadda-hā
     bi-fityāni ṣidqin wa-n-nawāqīsu tuḍrabu
     sulāfin ka-ʾanna az-zaʿfarāna wa-ʿindamā
     yuṣaffaqu fī nājūdi-hā ṯumma tuqṭabu

     There are stoops splendid like cock’s eyen, and I betook myself early to cross the border [into the land of the Christians]
     with friendly lads, where the bells are hit,
     where there is fore-must wine like saffron,
     and one clinks the beakers and then mixes the wine.

قَطَبَ • (qaṭaba) I (non-past يَقْطِبُ (yaqṭibu), verbal noun قَطْب (qaṭb) or قُطُوب (quṭūb))

1. to knit the eyebrows, to scowl, frown

قَطَّبَ • (qaṭṭaba) II (non-past يُقَطِّبُ (yuqaṭṭibu), verbal noun تَقْطِيب (taqṭīb))

1. to scowl, to glower; to knit the brow, to frown
2. (obsolete) to mix the wine, to fill it into its vessels in a blended state
3. to bind or sew together

قُطْب • (quṭb) m (plural أَقْطَاب (ʔaqṭāb))

1. axis, axle
2. pivot, hub
3. (electricity, astronomy, geography) pole
4. (usually in the plural) leader, authority, leading personality, celebrity

• قُطْبِيّ (quṭbiyy, “polar”)

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܩܘܼܛܒܵܐ (quṭbā)
• → Azerbaijani: qütb
• → Bengali: কুতুব (kutub)
• → Chagatai: قطب
  • Uyghur: قۇتۇپ (qutup)
  • Uzbek: qutb
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: क़ुतुब (qutub)
  • Urdu: قطب (qutb)
• → Israeli Hebrew: קֹטֶב (kótev)
• → Malay: kutub
  • Indonesian: kutub
• → Ottoman Turkish: قطب (kutb, vulg. kutub, kutup)
  • Turkish: kutup
• → Pashto: قطب
• → Persian: قطب (qotb)
• → Punjabi: قُطْب (qut̤b)
• → Sindhi: قطب
• → Tatar: котып (qotıp)

قَطْب • (qaṭb) m

1. verbal noun of قَطَبَ (qaṭaba) (form I)

قَطْب or قُطُب • (qaṭb or quṭub) m

2. puncture-vine (Tribulus spp.)

   Synonyms: شَرْشَر (šaršar), شَكُوهَج (šakūhaj), حَسَك (ḥasak)

• → Israeli Hebrew: קֹטֶב (kótev)
• → Tigre: ቅጠብ (ḳəṭäb), ቀጠብ (ḳäṭäb)

• Freytag, Georg (1835) “قطب”, in Lexicon arabico-latinum praesertim ex Djeuharii Firuzabadiique et aliorum Arabum operibus adhibitis Golii quoque et aliorum libris confectum‎^[1] (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, page 463
• Wehr, Hans (1979) “قطب”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, →ISBN, page 905

قطب (plural قطب-قطب or قطب٢)

1. Jawi spelling of kutub.‎‎

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb, “axis, axle; pole”).

قطب • (kutb or kutub) (definite accusative قطبی (kutbu, kutubu), plural اقطاب (aktâb) or قطوب (kutub))

1. axle, pivot, the pin or spindle on which a wheel revolves, or which revolves with a wheel

   Synonyms: ایك (iğ), دنكل (dingil), قازیق (kazık), محور (mihver)

2. (geography) pole, either of the two points on the earth's surface around which it rotates
3. (Sufism) qutb, one of the Sufi spiritual leaders, thought to have divine connection with God

• Turkish: kutup

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “kutup”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 2869
• Devellioğlu, Ferit (1962) “kutb”, in Osmanlıca-Türkçe Ansiklopedik Lûgat‎‎^[2] (in Turkish), Istanbul: Türk Dil Kurumu, page 633
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “قطب”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[3] (in French), Constantinople: Mihran, page 964
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Polus”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[4], Vienna, column 1315
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “قطب”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[5], Vienna, column 3719
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “kutup”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “قطب”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[6], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1461

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

قطب • (qutb) m

1. pole

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Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

قطب • (qotb) (plural قطب‌ها, or اقطاب (aqtâb))

1. pole

   قطب شمال ― qotb-e šomâl ― North Pole

2. (Sufism) saint; specifically, a high-ranking saint considered the "pole of the world".

• Hayyim, Sulayman (1934) “قطب”, in New Persian–English dictionary, Teheran: Librairie-imprimerie Béroukhim

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

قُطْب • (qut̤b) m (Gurmukhi spelling ਕੁਤਬ)

1. pole

• Iqbal, Salah ud-Din (2002) “قُطب”, in vaḍḍī panjābī lughat‎ (in Punjabi), Lahore: ʻAzīz Pablisharz

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

قُطِبُ • (transliteration needed) ?

1. pole

• Parmanand, Mewaram (1910) “قُطِبُ”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, Hyderabad, Sindh: The Sind Juvenile Co-operative Society
• “قطب”, in Sindhi-English Dictionary, University of Chicago: Center for Language Engineering, Pakistan, 1866–1938

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب (quṭb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qʊt̪b/, /qʊ.t̪ʊb/, /qʊ.t̪əb/

قُطْب • (qutb) m (Hindi spelling क़ुत्ब)

1. pole

• “قطب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (urdū luġat) (in Urdu), Ministry of Education: Government of Pakistan, 2017.
• Platts, John T. (1884) “قطب”, in A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London: W. H. Allen & Co.
• “قطب”, in ریخْتَہ لُغَت (rexta luġat) - Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English], Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2025.