maktab

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic مَكْتَب (maktab), from the root ك ت ب (k t b).

Noun

maktab (plural maktabs)

1. A traditional Islamic elementary school, primarily teaching literacy and the Qur'an.

   Synonym: kuttab

Translations

Islamic elementary school

• Arabic: مَكْتَب (ar) m (maktab), كُتَّاب (ar) m (kuttāb)
• Azerbaijani: məktəb (az)
• Bengali: মকতব (bn) (moktob)
• French: mekteb m
• Greek: μακτάμπ (maktámp)
• Hindi: मकतब (hi) m (maktab)
• Indonesian: maktab (id)
• Japanese: マクタブ (makutabu), クッターブ (kuttābu)
• Kazakh: мектеп (kk) (mektep)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: mekteb (ku)

• Kyrgyz: мектеп (ky) (mektep)
• Malay: maktab
• Pashto: مکتب (maktáb)
• Persian:

  Dari: مَکْتَب (fa) (maktab)

  Iranian Persian: مَکْتَب (fa) (maktab)

• Russian: мекте́б (ru) m (mektɛ́b)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: мѐктеб m

  Latin: mèkteb (sh) m

• Tatar: мәктәп (tt) (mäktäp)
• Turkish: mektep (tr)

  Ottoman Turkish: مكتب (mekteb)

• Turkmen: mekdep
• Urdu: مَکْتَب m (maktab)
• Uyghur: مەكتەپ (mektep)
• Uzbek: maktab (uz)

Anagrams

• tambak

Indonesian

Etymology

From Malay maktab, from Arabic مَكْتَب (maktab).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmaktab/ [ˈmak̚.t̪ap̚]
• Rhymes: -aktab
• Syllabification: mak‧tab

Noun

maktab (plural maktab-maktab)

1. (rare, possibly obsolete) school

   Synonyms: perguruan, madrasah, sekolah

2. (rare, literal loanword) table, desk

   Synonym: meja

3. (Islam, Hajj) an office, bureau, particularly ones providing preparatory services for Hajj pilgrimages

Further reading

• “maktab”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Malay

Etymology

From Arabic مَكْتَب (maktab), from the root ك ت ب (k t b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmaʔk.tap]

Noun

maktab (Jawi spelling مکتب, plural maktab-maktab or maktab²)

1. school, college

Derived terms

• maktab rendah (junior college)

Descendants

• → Indonesian: maktab

See also

• sekolah

Further reading

• "maktab" in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu (PRPM) [Malay Literary Reference Centre (PRPM)] (in Malay), Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017
  (also see "maktab" at PRPM first version)

Uzbek

Other scripts

Arabic	Afghan Uzbek	مکتب
	Yangi Imlo	مەكتەب
Cyrillic		мактаб
Latin		maktab

Etymology

Inherited from Chagatai [Term?], from Classical Persian مَکْتَب (maktab, “school”), from Arabic مَكْتَبٌ m (maktabun, “traditional Islamic elementary school”), from the root ك ت ب (k t b).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mak.tab/, [mæk̟ʰ.t̪a̽b]
• Hyphenation: mak‧tab

Noun

maktab (plural maktablar)

1. school, college

Declension

Declension of maktab

	singular	plural
nominative	maktab	maktablar
genitive	maktabning	maktablarning
dative	maktabga	maktablarga
definite accusative	maktabni	maktablarni
locative	maktabda	maktablarda
ablative	maktabdan	maktablardan
similative	maktabdek	maktablardek

Possessive forms of maktab

1st person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	maktabim	maktablarim
genitive	maktabimning	maktablarimning
dative	maktabimga	maktablarimga
definite accusative	maktabimni	maktablarimni
locative	maktabimda	maktablarimda
ablative	maktabimdan	maktablarimdan
similative	maktabimdek	maktablarimdek
2nd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	maktabing	maktablaring
genitive	maktabingning	maktablaringning
dative	maktabingga	maktablaringga
definite accusative	maktabingni	maktablaringni
locative	maktabingda	maktablaringda
ablative	maktabingdan	maktablaringdan
similative	maktabingdek	maktablaringdek
3rd person singular
	singular	plural
nominative	maktabi	maktablari
genitive	maktabining	maktablarining
dative	maktabiga	maktablariga
definite accusative	maktabini	maktablarini
locative	maktabida	maktablarida
ablative	maktabidan	maktablaridan
similative	maktabidek	maktablaridek
1st person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	maktabimiz	maktablarimiz
genitive	maktabimizning	maktablarimizning
dative	maktabimizga	maktablarimizga
definite accusative	maktabimizni	maktablarimizni
locative	maktabimizda	maktablarimizda
ablative	maktabimizdan	maktablarimizdan
similative	maktabimizdek	maktablarimizdek
2nd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	maktabingiz	maktablaringiz
genitive	maktabingizning	maktablaringizning
dative	maktabingizga	maktablaringizga
definite accusative	maktabingizni	maktablaringizni
locative	maktabingizda	maktablaringizda
ablative	maktabingizdan	maktablaringizdan
similative	maktabingizdek	maktablaringizdek
3rd person plural
	singular	plural
nominative	maktabi	maktablari
genitive	maktabining	maktablarining
dative	maktabiga	maktablariga
definite accusative	maktabini	maktablarini
locative	maktabida	maktablarida
ablative	maktabidan	maktablaridan
similative	maktabidek	maktablaridek