خط

ḵẖat̤t̤, vulg. ḵẖat̤(v.n. fr. خطّ 'to make a line or mark'; 'to write'), s.m. A line, a streak, or stripe, a mark; lineament;—writing, character, handwriting chirography; a letter, epistle;—down on the face, incipient beard, etc.; beard; moustaches:—ḵẖat̤-ě-āftābī, s.m. 'Sun-shaped characters,' a form of Persian writing in which the curved tails of the letters are portions of a circle:—ḵẖat̤ ānā, v.n. A letter to arrive;—down to appear (on the face), beard, etc. to begin to sprout:—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-istiwā, or ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-`ětidāl, s.m. The equinoctial line, the equator:—ḵẖat̤bigaṛ-jānā, v.n. Handwriting to fall off or become worse:—ḵẖat̤banānāor banwānā, To shave (the chin, etc.), or to have (the chin) shaved; to dress or trim the beard:—ḵẖat̤-ě-baiẓawī, s.m. 'Egg-shaped characters,' a form of Persian writing in which the curved tails of the letters are segments of an oval:—ḵẖat̤pakṛā-jānā, A letter to be intercepted:—ḵẖat̤pakaṛnā(-kā), To intercept a letter:—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-jadī, s.m. The tropic of Capricorn:—ḵẖat̤-ě-jalī, s.m. Large handwriting:—ḵẖat̤-ḵẖut̤ūt̤, s.m. Letters, epistolary correspondence:—ḵẖat̤-dār, adj. Marked with lines or streaks; striped (as cloth, etc.):—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-sart̤ān, s.m. Tropic of cancer:—ḵẖat̤-ě-ṣarrāf, s.m. Bank-bill, cheque:—ḵẖat̤t̤saṅwarnāor saṅwar-jānā, v.n. Handwriting to improve or to become good:—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-shǒ`ā, ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-shǒ`ā`ī, s.m. Rays of the sun; a solar ray;—a kind of writing:—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-`amūd, s.m. A perpendicular line:—ḵẖat̤-ě-g̠ubār, s.m. The smallest Arabic or Persian handwriting:—ḵẖat̤-kitābat, s.f. Correspondence:—ḵẖat̤-ě-gulzār, s.m. A kind of flourished handwriting:—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-lā-da`wā, s.m. An unclaimed letter;—a release or acquittance in writing: a writing relinquishing all claim (to):—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-mutawāzī, s.m. A parallel line:—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-mustadīr, s.m. A circular line:—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-mustaqīm, s.m. A right line, a straight line:—ḵẖat̤t̤-ě-munḥanī, s.m. A curved line:—ḵẖat̤mūṅḍwānā, To have the beard shaved off:—ḵẖat̤-meṅ ḵẖat̤milānā, To copy the handwriting (of); to forge a handwriting:—ḵẖat̤-ě-nasta`līq, s.m. Plain, round Persian writing (see nasta`līq):—ḵẖat̤-ě-nasḵẖ, s.m. A kind of Arabic writing (see nasḵẖ):—shikasta ḵẖat̤, s.m. 'Broken writing'; a running hand in the Persian etc. character (see shikasta).