Naskhi

American  

[nas-kee] / ˈnæs ki /

noun

1. the cursive variety of Arabic script from which was derived the variety used in modern printed works.

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Etymology

Origin of Naskhi

1765–75; < Arabic naskhī, akin to nasakha to copy

Example Sentences

Their names are just as celebrated for Thuluth and Talik writing as were formerly those of Ibn Bawwab, of Ibn Hilal, and of Yakut are for Naskhi.

From Arabic Authors A Manual of Arabian History and Literature by Arbuthnot, F. F.

Books at Harar are mostly antiques, copyists being exceedingly rare, and the square massive character is more like Cufic with diacritical points, than the graceful modern Naskhi.

From First Footsteps in East Africa by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Other hands are: the Ta'alík; hanging or oblique, used for finer MSS. and having, according to Richardson, "the same analogy to the Naskhi as our Italic has to the Roman."

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir