Ahle Kitab

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English

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Etymology

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From Classical Persian اهل کتاب (ahl-i kitāb), possibly via Urdu, from Arabic أَهْل الْكِتَاب (ʔahl al-kitāb).

Noun

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Ahle Kitab pl (plural only)

  1. People of the Book

Usage notes

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  • In lower case, and often hyphenated it is used as an adjective to mean Christian or Jewish.

Anagrams

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