khatib
noun
khatib is a noun meaning “A person who delivers the khutbah” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled K-H-A-T-I-B, and it appears about once in every 5 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of khatib is khatibs.
What does khatib mean?
noun
- 1
A person who delivers the khutbah.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of khatib
- khatibs plural
- khateeb
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is khatib?
Khatib appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 66,686th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does khatib come from?
From Arabic خَطِيب (ḵaṭīb).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).