خاطئ

See also: خاطی

Arabic

Root
خ ط ء (ḵ-ṭ-ʔ)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xaː.tˤiʔ/

Adjective

خَاطِئ • (ḵāṭiʔ) (feminine خَاطِئَة (ḵāṭiʔa), masculine plural خَاطِئُونَ (ḵāṭiʔūna), feminine plural خَاطِئَات (ḵāṭiʔāt) or خَوَاطِئ (ḵawāṭiʔ))

1. active participle of خَطِئَ (ḵaṭiʔa): sinning, sinful
   • 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 12:97:

     قَالُوا يَا أَبَانَا ٱسْتَغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا إِنَّا كُنَّا خَاطِئِينَ

     qālū yā ʔabānā staḡfir lanā ḏunūbanā ʔinnā kunnā ḵāṭiʔīna

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Usage notes

• In standard Arabic, one would expect to find خُطَّاء (ḵuṭṭāʔ) as a masculine broken plural, using the pattern فُعَّال (fuʔʔāl) also found, for example, in كُتَّاب (kuttāb), قُرَّاء (qurrāʔ), etc. The form خُطَاة (ḵuṭāh) is a colloquialism derived from the participle's colloquial form خَاطِي (ḵāṭī) using a pattern normally reserved for final-weak verbs (e.g. قَضَى (qaḍā, final-weak verb) → قَاضٍ (qāḍin, active participle) [informally قَاضِي (qāḍī)] → قُضَاة (quḍāh, masculine broken plural)).

Declension

Declension of adjective خَاطِئ (ḵāṭiʔ)

Singular	Masculine		Feminine
	basic singular triptote		singular triptote in ـَة (-a)
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	خَاطِئ ḵāṭiʔ	الْخَاطِئ al-ḵāṭiʔ	خَاطِئَة ḵāṭiʔa	الْخَاطِئَة al-ḵāṭiʔa
Nominative	خَاطِئٌ ḵāṭiʔun	الْخَاطِئُ al-ḵāṭiʔu	خَاطِئَةٌ ḵāṭiʔatun	الْخَاطِئَةُ al-ḵāṭiʔatu
Accusative	خَاطِئًا ḵāṭiʔan	الْخَاطِئَ al-ḵāṭiʔa	خَاطِئَةً ḵāṭiʔatan	الْخَاطِئَةَ al-ḵāṭiʔata
Genitive	خَاطِئٍ ḵāṭiʔin	الْخَاطِئِ al-ḵāṭiʔi	خَاطِئَةٍ ḵāṭiʔatin	الْخَاطِئَةِ al-ḵāṭiʔati
Dual	Masculine		Feminine
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	خَاطِئَيْن ḵāṭiʔayn	الْخَاطِئَيْن al-ḵāṭiʔayn	خَاطِئَتَيْن ḵāṭiʔatayn	الْخَاطِئَتَيْن al-ḵāṭiʔatayn
Nominative	خَاطِئَانِ ḵāṭiʔāni	الْخَاطِئَانِ al-ḵāṭiʔāni	خَاطِئَتَانِ ḵāṭiʔatāni	الْخَاطِئَتَانِ al-ḵāṭiʔatāni
Accusative	خَاطِئَيْنِ ḵāṭiʔayni	الْخَاطِئَيْنِ al-ḵāṭiʔayni	خَاطِئَتَيْنِ ḵāṭiʔatayni	الْخَاطِئَتَيْنِ al-ḵāṭiʔatayni
Genitive	خَاطِئَيْنِ ḵāṭiʔayni	الْخَاطِئَيْنِ al-ḵāṭiʔayni	خَاطِئَتَيْنِ ḵāṭiʔatayni	الْخَاطِئَتَيْنِ al-ḵāṭiʔatayni
Plural	Masculine		Feminine
	sound masculine plural		sound feminine plural‎; basic broken plural diptote
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Informal	خَاطِئِين ḵāṭiʔīn	الْخَاطِئِين al-ḵāṭiʔīn	خَاطِئَات‎; خَوَاطِئ ḵāṭiʔāt‎; ḵawāṭiʔ	الْخَاطِئَات‎; الْخَوَاطِئ al-ḵāṭiʔāt‎; al-ḵawāṭiʔ
Nominative	خَاطِئُونَ ḵāṭiʔūna	الْخَاطِئُونَ al-ḵāṭiʔūna	خَاطِئَاتٌ‎; خَوَاطِئُ ḵāṭiʔātun‎; ḵawāṭiʔu	الْخَاطِئَاتُ‎; الْخَوَاطِئُ al-ḵāṭiʔātu‎; al-ḵawāṭiʔu
Accusative	خَاطِئِينَ ḵāṭiʔīna	الْخَاطِئِينَ al-ḵāṭiʔīna	خَاطِئَاتٍ‎; خَوَاطِئَ ḵāṭiʔātin‎; ḵawāṭiʔa	الْخَاطِئَاتِ‎; الْخَوَاطِئَ al-ḵāṭiʔāti‎; al-ḵawāṭiʔa
Genitive	خَاطِئِينَ ḵāṭiʔīna	الْخَاطِئِينَ al-ḵāṭiʔīna	خَاطِئَاتٍ‎; خَوَاطِئَ ḵāṭiʔātin‎; ḵawāṭiʔa	الْخَاطِئَاتِ‎; الْخَوَاطِئِ al-ḵāṭiʔāti‎; al-ḵawāṭiʔi

Descendants

• → Ottoman Turkish: خاطی (hâtî)
• → Persian: خاطی (xâti)
• → Urdu: خاطی (xātī)

Further reading

• Baalbaki, Rohi (1995) “خاطئ”, in Al-Mawrid: A Modern Arabic-English Dictionary, 7th edition, Beirut: Dar El-Ilm Lilmalayin, →ISBN
• Баранов, Х. К. (2011) “خاطئ”, in Большой арабско-русский словарь (Bolʹšoj arabsko-russkij slovarʹ), 11th edition, Москва: Живой язык, →ISBN
• Lane, Edward William (1863) “خاطئ”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎^[1], London: Williams & Norgate
• Wehr, Hans (1960) “خاطئ”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 3rd edition, Ithaca, NY: Otto Harrassowitz