Meaning of خط | Babel Free

Definitions

1. line
2. streak, stripe
3. handwriting, writing
4. script; writing system
5. written character; letter
6. down or fresh facial hair on an adolescent face (a mark of beauty)
   poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“خط مستقیم”

straight line

“خط منحنی”

curved line

“خط چینی ― xatt-e čini ― Chinese characters”

“نبشت او بران نامهٔ خسروی نبود آن زمان خط جز پهلوی”

He wrote an imperial book on it; In those times, there was no script except for Pahlavi.

“چو خط که از لب لعلت دمد رقم نتوان کرد اگر شوند چو یاقوت قدسیان همه کاتب”

When the hair blooms from your ruby lips, it cannot be written down Even were all the scribes to become like the Yāqūt of the angels.

“چشم تو و خط و خالت ای بت رعنا برده زمن عقل و صبر و هوش به یغما”

Your eye and your down and your beauty-mark, o beautiful idol, Has carried off as plunder the time for reason and patience and wisdom.

CEFR level