[1]
كَتَبَهُ , aor.
كَتُبَ , inf. n.
كَتْبٌ and
كِتَابٌ and
كِتَابَةٌ (S, K) and
كِتْبَةٌ; (Msb;) the first of
these inf. ns. agreeable with analogy; the second,
anomalous; (TA;) or the latter of these two is
a subst., like
لِبَاسٌ; (Lh;) or originally an
inf. n., and afterwards used in the senses given
below; (MF;) as also
كِتَابَةٌ, and
كِتْبَةٌ: (TA:)
and ↓
كتّبهُ (K) and ↓
اكتتبهُ; (S, K;)
He
wrote it: (S, K:) or
كَتَبَهُ has this signification;
and ↓
اكتتبهُ, as also ↓
استكتبهُ, signifies
he asked
[one]
to dictate it (
إِسْتَمْلَاهُ): (K:) ↓
إِكْتَتَبَهَا in
the Kur, xxv. 6, signifies
he hath written them
(S)
for himself: (Bd:) or
he hath asked [one]
to write them for him, or
to dictate them to him.
(TA, Bd.) ―
2-b2-
كَتَبَ عَنْهُ [
He wrote what he
had heard, or
learned from him.] A phrase of
common occurrence in biographies. ―
2-b3-
كَتَبَ
[
He was a writer, or
scribe, and a learned man.
(Implied in the S, where we are referred to the
Kur, lii. 41, and lxviii., 47, in illustration of
كَاتِبٌ as signifying “ a learned man. ”)] ＝
1-A2-
كَتَبَ, aor.
كَتُبَ , inf. n.
كِتَابٌ, q. v., (assumed tropical:)
He (God)
prescribed, appointed, or
ordained, (TA,)
and
made obligatory. (Msb.)
كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ القِصَاصُ
The law of retaliation is prescribed, appointed, or
ordained, as a law of which the observance is
incumbent on you. (Kur, ii. 173.]
كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ
الصِّيَامُ Fasting is prescribed as incumbent on you.
[Kur. ii. 179.] (TA.) ―
2-b2-
كَتَبَ عَلَيْهِ كَذَا (tropical:)
He
judged, passed sentence, or
decreed, against him
that he should do such a thing. (A.)
كتب
القَاضِى بِالنَّفَقَةِ The judge gave sentence that the
expenses should be paid. (Msb.) ＝
1-A3-
كَتَبَ,
aor.
كَتُبَ , inf. n.
كَتْبٌ,
He drew together; brought
together; conjoined. (S.) ―
2-b2- Hence,
كَتَبَ البَغْلَةَ,
aor.
كَتُبَ and
كَتِبَ , inf. n.
كَتْبٌ,
He conjoined the oræ
of the mule's vulva by means of a ring or
a thong;
(S;) as also
كَتَبَ عَلَيْهَا. (A.)
كَتَبَ,
aor.
كَتُبَ and
كَتِبَ , (K,) inf. n.
كَتْبٌ; and
كَتَبَ عَلَيْهَا;
(TA;)
He closed the camel's vulva, (K,)
and
put a ring upon it: (TA:) or
he put a ring of
iron or
the like upon it, (K,)
conjoining the oræ,
in order that she might not be covered. (TA.)
―
2-b3-
كَتَبَ, aor.
كَتُبَ , inf. n.
كَتْبٌ; (S;) and
↓
اكتتب; (K;)
He sewed a
قِرْبَة, (S,) or a
سِقَآء,
(K,) or a
مَزَادَة, (TA,)
with two thongs: (K:)
or, accord. to some,
he closed it
at the mouth, by
binding it round with a وِكَاء,
so that nothing [
of
its contents]
should drop from it; (TA;) [as also
↓
اكتب:] or
كتب signifies
he sewed a
قربة;
and ↓
اكتب,
he bound it
with a وكآء, i. e.
bound
it
round the upper part. (Lh.) ―
2-b4-
كَتَبَ,
aor.
كَتُبَ , inf. n.
كَتْبٌ; (S;) and ↓
اكتب (S, K)
and ↓
اكتتب (TA) (tropical:)
He bound a
قِرْبَة with a
وِكَاء; (S;)
he bound it
round the head, or
upper
part: (K:) or the first of these verbs signifies
he sewed a
قربة. (Lh.) See above. IAar says,
I heard an Arab of the desert say,
أَكْتَبْتُ فَمَ
↓
السِّقَاء فَلَمْ يَسْتَكْتِبْ I bound the mouth of the سقاء,
but it did not become fast bound, or
closed, because
of its hardness and thickness. (TA.) ＝
1-A4-
كَتَبَ
النَّاقَةَ He used art to make the she-camel take a
liking to that which was not her own young one,
and put something as a ring through her nostrils,
lest she should smell the بَوّ, (in some copies of the
K,
بَوْل; but this is a mistake; TA,)
and not
have a fondness for it. (TA.) ＝
1-A5-
كَتَبَ (tropical:)
He
collected a
كَتِيبَة. (TA.) See also 2.