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كُتَّابٌ

Root: كتب

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كُتَّابٌ , see مَكْتَبٌ

def.2 The same, as also كُثَّابٌ, q. v., but the former is the more approved: (S: the reverse, however, is said in the TA; and MF says that some authors altogether reject كتّاب, with ت, in the sense here following:) A kind of small, round-headed, arrow, with which boys learn to shoot.
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