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خَطّ
line /ˈxatˤtˤ/
nounA1#524 most common
Also: handwriting, calligraphy, telephone line
Example sentences
هٰذا خَطّ.
This is a line.
خَطّي جَميل.
My handwriting is beautiful.
ارسُم خَطًّا مُستَقيمًا على الوَرَقة.
Draw a straight line on the paper.
الخَطّ الهاتِفيّ مَشغول الآن.
The telephone line is busy now.
يَمتاز هٰذا الفَنّان بِجَمالِ خَطِّهِ العَرَبيّ.
This artist stands out for the beauty of his Arabic calligraphy.
مَدَّ المُهَندِسون خَطًّا حَديديًّا جَديدًا يَربِط العاصِمة بِالمُدُن السّاحِليّة.
The engineers laid a new railway line connecting the capital to the coastal cities.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | خَطٌّ | خُطوطٌ |
| Genitive | خَطٍّ | خُطوطٍ |
| Accusative | خَطًّا | خُطوطًا |
| Vocative | يا خَطُّ | يا خُطوطُ |
Word family
خَطَّto write, to draw a line
خَطّاطcalligrapher
خِطّةplan, scheme
تَخطيطplanning, layout
مَخطوطmanuscript
Etymology
خَطّ comes from the Semitic triliteral root خ-ط-ط (kh-ṭ-ṭ), which carries the sense of marking or drawing a line. The basic verb خَطَّ means to write or to trace. From this root Arabic builds a wide family of words for writing, planning, and calligraphy. The noun names both the physical line and, by extension, a person's hand or script.
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