مَكْتَب

The word in other languages

Each form in its own language's script, with its sources. Anything marked "single source" has only one source we could find, so it is shown on this page only, not on the card.

• Turkish mektep on the card

  a school (old-fashioned; the usual word is okul)

  Sources: Nişanyan, Turkish etymological dictionary (via etimolojiturkce.com); Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian مکتب maktab on the card

  a traditional Qur'an school

  Sources: Steingass, A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary (1892), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Persian مکتب maktab single source

  also a school of thought

  Sources: Wiktionary (English edition)

• Urdu مکتب maktab on the card

  an elementary school, a writing-school

  Sources: Platts, A Dictionary of Urdu, Classical Hindi and English (1884), University of Chicago edition; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Indonesian maktab

  a school; an office, a bureau (rare)

  Sources: KBBI, the official Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Malay maktab in Jawi script: مکتب on the card

  a college: Maktab Perguruan, a teachers' college; also an office

  Sources: Kamus Dewan, 4th edition, on the PRPM portal of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Malaysia; Wiktionary (English edition)

• Bosnian mekteb on the card

  a Qur'an school for small children; colloquially mejtef

  Sources: Wiktionary (English edition); Abdulah Škaljić, Turcizmi u srpskohrvatskom jeziku (Sarajevo, 1966)