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Etymology
From, from , from usage of  (used in the Vulgate Bible translation to render , which had been used in its turn to render the ) from , probably akin to. .

The verb sense used in carpentry comes from the way a workman uses a compass to mark a line before cutting.

Noun

 * 1) Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist.
 * 2) A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.undefined
 * 3)  A journalist.
 * 4)  A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
 * 5) A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.
 * 1)  A writer and doctor of the law; one skilled in the law and traditions; one who read and explained the law to the people.
 * 2) A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber.

Translations

 * Aghwan: 𐕁𐔼𐕗𐔿𐔰𐔱𐔰𐔰𐔾
 * Akkadian: 𒁾𒊬
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: نَاسِخ,
 * Aramaic: סָפַר
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: katib, münşi
 * Belarusian: пі́сар, пі́сарка
 * Bulgarian:, пи́сарка
 * Catalan:
 * Cherokee: ᏗᏃᏪᎵᏍᎩ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 抄寫員
 * Mandarin:
 * Classical Nahuatl: tlahcuiloh, āmoxtlahcuiloh
 * Czech:, písařka
 * Danish: skriver
 * Dutch: ,
 * Egyptian:
 * Esperanto: skribisto
 * Estonian: kirjutaja
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician:, ,
 * Ge'ez: ጸሓፊ
 * Georgian: გადამწერი
 * German: ,
 * Gothic: 𐌱𐍉𐌺𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌹𐍃
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γραμματεύς
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, ,
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skrifari
 * Irish: scríobhaí
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 筆記者, スクライブ
 * Kazakh: жазбагер, бітікші
 * Khmer: ,
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz: ,
 * Lao: ອາລັກ
 * Latin: scrība, librāriolus, librārius
 * Latvian: rakstvedis
 * Lithuanian: raštininkas
 * Macedonian: пи́сар, пи́сарка
 * Malay: katib, jurutulis
 * Manx: screeudeyr
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Old English: wrītere, bōcere
 * Pashto:, منشي, ميرزا, ليکونکى
 * Persian:
 * Iranian Persian:, , , , ,
 * Polish:, , ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пѝса̄р, писа̀рица
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: pisár, pisárka
 * Slovene: pisar, pisarka
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Sumerian: 𒁾𒊬
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik: муншӣ, котиб, мирзо, дабир, муҳаррир
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: kätip
 * Ugaritic: 𐎒𐎔𐎗
 * Ukrainian: пи́сар, пи́сарка
 * Urdu: مُنْشی, کاتِب, مُحَرِّر
 * Uyghur: كۆچۈرگۈچى
 * Uzbek:, , ,
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: סופֿר


 * Bulgarian: кни́жник
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: γραμματεύς
 * Latin: scrība
 * Maori: karaipi
 * Plautdietsch: Schreftjelieeda
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Ukrainian: секрета́р


 * Bulgarian: черти́лка
 * Dutch: kraspen
 * Finnish: piirrin
 * German: Reißnadel
 * Luxembourgish: Räissnol
 * Russian:
 * Spanish: punta de trazar


 * Finnish:
 * Manx: screeudeyr
 * Mongolian:


 * Georgian:

Verb

 * 1) To write.
 * 2) To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe.
 * 3) To record, as a scribe.
 * 4) To write or draw with a scribe.
 * 5)  To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
 * 6) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
 * 1) To write or draw with a scribe.
 * 2)  To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc.
 * 3) To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.

Translations

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Icelandic:
 * Japanese:
 * Macedonian: пи́шува
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Macedonian: запи́шува
 * Old Norse: skrá
 * Spanish:


 * Finnish:

Etymology
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Verb

 * 1)  to write