كَتَبَةٌbook

Example sentences

• وَفِي الْجُمْلَةِ تَرْكٌ كَتَبَةٌ الْفُنُونِ آثارًا بَارِزَةً فِي عِلْمٍ وَمُصَنَّفَاتِ ابْنِ الْجَوْزِيِّ،

  Overall, the Book of Arts left notable traces on the scholarship and writings of Ibn al-Jawzi,

  كَتَبَةٌ — book. A noun in this clause tied to the act of leaving-behind, naming the writing or book through which the marks were left. It connects to the surrounding nouns to say what did the leaving. Read it as part of the 'left traces' construction rather than on its own.

  From: A Life of Reading and Writing →