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Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb).

kitab (plural kitabs)

1. An Islamic book.
   • 2011, Ronit Ricci, Islam Translated: Literature, Conversion, and the Arabic Cosmopolis of South and Southeast Asia, page 96:

     […] mystical works were virtually absent from the curriculum in the late nineteenth century, and the stress was on kitabs of Islamic law and Arabic grammar.

Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb).

• IPA^(key): /kiˈtab/ [kɪˈtʌb]
• Hyphenation: ki‧tab

kitáb m (plural kitoobá f)

1. book

• Some speakers might use kitáb only in reference to the Quran.

Declension of kitáb
absolutive	kitáb
predicative	kitáaba
subjective	kitáb
genitive	kitáb
Postpositioned forms l-case kitáabal k-case kitáabak t-case kitáabat h-case kitáabah

• búuk

• E. M. Parker; R. J. Hayward (1985), “kitab”, in An Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English), University of London, →ISBN
• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015), L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb). Compare Turkish kitap.

• IPA^(key): [ciˈtɑb], [c͡çiˈtɑb], [ciˈtɑp], [c͡çiˈtɑp]

• Audio (Baku):

  (file)

• (Ganjabasar) IPA^(key): [ctʰaf]

kitab (definite accusative kitabı, sound plural kitablar, broken plural kütüb)

1. book

   kitab oxumaq ― to read a book

   oxunması zəruri olan kitabların siyahısı ― list of must-read books

• kitabça
• kitabxana

• → Tat: kitab

• Orucov, Əliheydər, editor (2006), “kitab”, in Azərbaycan dilinin izahlı lüğəti [Explanatory Dictionary of the Azerbaijani Language]‎^[3] (in Azerbaijani), 2nd edition, volume 2, Baku: Şərq-Qərb, pages 715-716

• katab
• kutab

• IPA^(key): /ˈkitab/ [ˈkiː.t̪ab]
• Hyphenation: ki‧tab

kitab (Badlit spelling ᜃᜒᜆᜊ᜔)

1. to gabble; to talk fast, idly, foolishly, or without meaning

Inherited from Malay kitab, from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb, “book”).^[1]

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈkitab/ [ˈki.t̪ap̚]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -itab
• Syllabification: ki‧tab
• Homophone: KITAP

kitab (plural kitab-kitab)

1. book (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material)

   Synonyms: buku, pustaka

2. holy book, sacred writing, scripture

   Synonym: kitab suci

3. code, body of law

Regularly used to mean a religious book or a book of law.

• Alkitab

• “kitab”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Borrowed from Malay kitab, from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb, “book”).

• (Standard Maguindanaon) IPA^(key): /ˈkitab/ [ˈki.ʈʌb]
• Rhymes: -itab
• Syllabification: ki‧tab

kitab

1. book

   Synonym: libru

Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb, “book”).

• (schwa-variety, Literary Standard) IPA^(key): /ˈkitab/ [ˈki.t̪ap̚]

  • Audio (Malaysia):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -itap, -tap, -ap
• Hyphenation: ki‧tab

kitab (Jawi spelling کتاب, plural kitab-kitab)

1. book (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material)

   Synonyms: buku, pustaka

The word is used commonly for ones relating to academia including grammar (e.g. Raja Ali Haji's Kitab Pengetahuan Bahasa), religion (like the Bible, Torah, or the Bhagavad Gita) and law; comparable to use of 經 / 经 against 書 / 书 (shū) in Chinese

• katib

• > Indonesian: kitab (inherited)
• → Maguindanao: kitab
• → Maranao: kitab
• → Tausug: kitab
• → Yakan: kitab

• "kitab" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "kitab" at PRPM first version)

Borrowed from Malay kitab (“book”), from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb).

kitab

1. law; rule

Borrowed from Bengali কিতাব (kitab) or Hindi किताब (kitāb).

kitab

1. book

Ultimately from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb, “book”)

kitab

1. book (collection of sheets of paper bound together containing printed or written material)

Borrowed from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb, “book”).

kitab

1. book

• Potanin, G.N. (1893), “китаб”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия [Tangutsko-Tibetskaja okraina Kitaja i Centralʹnaja Mongolija] (in Russian), page 430
• 柴田 武 [Takeshi Shibata] (1946), “Seikaishô no Junka no Sarârugo ni tsuite [On the Salar Language of Xunhua, Qinghai]”, in The Tôyôgo Kenkyû, volume 1, Tokyo, pages 25-78

Borrowed from Azerbaijani kitab, from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb, “book”).

kitab

1. book

kitab

1. misspelling of kitap (“book”)

Borrowed from Malay kitab, from Arabic كِتَاب (kitāb, “book”).

kitab

1. holy book