Arabic

Noun

خَاطِب • ‎(ḵāṭib) m ‎(plural خُطَّاب ‎(ḵuṭṭāb) or خُطَبَاء ‎(ḵuṭabāʾ))

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

Declension

References

• “خاطب” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
• Steingass, Francis Joseph (1884), “خاطب”, in The Student's Arabic–English Dictionary, 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 0-87950-003-4

Adjective

خَاطِب • ‎(ḵāṭib) ‎(masculine plural خُطَّاب ‎(ḵuṭṭāb) or خُطَبَاء ‎(ḵuṭabāʾ))

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

Declension

References

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

Etymology 2

Verb

خَاطَبَ • ‎(ḵāṭaba) III, non-past يُخَاطِبُ‎ (yuḵāṭibu)

1. to address

Conjugation

Persian

Etymology

From Arabic خَاطِب ‎(ḵāṭib).

Noun

خاطب • ‎(xâteb)

1. (Islam) preacher
2. speaker