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)

1. to gather, to collect, to bind together, to contract
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)

1. to knit the eyebrows, to scowl

قَطَّبَ • (qaṭṭaba) II, non-past يُقَطِّبُ‎‎ (yuqaṭṭibu)

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”)

• → Azerbaijani: qütb
• → Bengali: কুতুব (kutub)
• → Chagatai: قطب‎
  • Uyghur: قۇتۇپ‎ (qutup)
  • Uzbek: qutb
• → Hindustani:
  • Hindi: क़ुत्ब (qutb)
  • 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

1. 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 (in Latin), volume 3, Halle: C. A. Schwetschke, pages 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 قطب۲‎, informal 1st possessive قطبکو‎, 2nd possessive قطبمو‎, 3rd possessive قطبڽ‎)

1. Jawi spelling of kutub

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب‎ (quṭb).

قطب • (qutb) m

1. pole

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب‎ (quṭb).

قطب • (qotb)

1. pole

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

Borrowed from Arabic قُطْب‎ (quṭb).

• (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /qʊt̪b/, /qʊ.t̪ʊb/
• (Deccani) IPA^(key): /xʊt̪b/, /xʊ.t̪ʊb/

قُطْب • (qut̤b) m (Hindi spelling क़ुत्ब)

1. pole

• “قطب”, in اُردُو لُغَت (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 Rekhta Dictionary [Urdu dictionary with meanings in Hindi & English] (in English), Noida, India: Rekhta Foundation, 2023.