# قرطاس
## Arabic
### Alternative forms

* قَرْطَس (qarṭas) (obsolete)

### Etymology

From Aramaic קַרְטֵיסָא / ܩܪܛܝܣܐ (qarṭīsā), from Ancient Greek χάρτης (khártēs).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qir.tˤaːs/, /qur.tˤaːs/

### Noun

قِرْطَاس or قُرْطَاس • (qirṭās or qurṭās) m (plural قَرَاطِيس (qarāṭīs))
* (uncountable or countable, dated) paper; a sheet of paper, a page
    Synonyms: صَحِيفَة (ṣaḥīfa, “a page; a book”), وَرَقَة (waraqa, “a leaf; a sheet of paper”)
** 609–632 CE, Qur'an, 6:7:وَلَوْ نَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْكَ كِتَابًا فِي قِرْطَاسٍ فَلَمَسُوهُ بِأَيْدِيهِمْ لَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُبِينٌwa-law nazzalnā ʕalayka kitāban fī qirṭāsin fa-lamasūhu bi-ʔaydīhim la-qāla llaḏīna kafarū ʔin haḏā ʔillā siḥrun mubīnunAnd even if we had sent down to you some writing on a leaf so that they could touch it with their own hands, those who have disbelieved would say, “This is nothing but blatant magic."
** 10th century, Al-Mutanabbi
    اَلْخَيْلُ وَٱللَّيْلُ وَٱلْبَيْدَاءُ تَعْرِفُنِي / وَٱلسَّيْفُ وَٱلرُّمْحُ وَٱلْقِرْطَاسُ وَٱلْقَلَمُal-ḵaylu wa-l-laylu wa-l-baydāʔu taʕrifunī / wa-s-sayfu wa-r-rumḥu wa-l-qirṭāsu wa-l-qalamuThe horses and the night and the desert know me / and the sword and the spear and the paper and the pen
* (uncountable or countable, archaic) papyrus; a sheet of papyrus
    Synonym: بَرْدِيّ (bardiyy)
* (uncountable or countable) individual packaging, bag, wrapper, cone
** 2018, وَجْدِيّ الْأَهْدَل [wajdiyy al-ʔahdal], أرض المؤامرات السعيدة, Bayrūt: Nawfal / Hachette Antoine, →ISBN, page 84:ولكنّني حين رأيتُ هذه الأصناف القديمة سال لعابي، واشتهيتُ أكلها وكأنّني طفل. مزّقتُ قرطاس البسكويت الأول والتهمته بتلذذ،But when I saw these old sorts my spittle ran, and I was desirous to eat thereof as though I were a child. I rent the paper packaging of the first biscuit and devoured with winne,
* (countable, obsolete) a mark that is fired at (such as a bullseye), a target
    Synonyms: هَدَف (hadaf), غَرَض (ḡaraḍ)

#### Derived terms

* قِرْطَاسِي (qirṭāsī, “papyrus-like; papyrus-colored, papyrus-white or papyrus-yellow”)

#### Descendants

* Egyptian Arabic: قرطاس (ʔúrṭās)
* Gulf Arabic: قرطاس (girṭās)
* Maltese: qartas
* Moroccan Arabic: قرطاس (qurṭās, qarṭās)
* → Brunei Malay: keratas
* → Dhivehi: ކަރުދާސް (karudās)
* → Tamahaq: tăkarḍe
** → Hausa: tákàr̃dā
*** → Nupe: tákàda
*** → Zarma: takàrdà
*** → Yoruba: tákàdá
*** → Koyraboro Senni: takadda
*** → Lela: k'tákà̱llá (“book”)
*** → Hun: taku̱rda (“book, paper”), tadarka (“book, paper”), takarada (“book, paper”)
*** → Fungwa: tákàdá (“book”)
*** → Ron: kaada (“book”)
* → Malagasy: taratàsy
* → Malay: kertas
** > Indonesian: kertas (inherited)
** → Javanese: ꦏꦼꦂꦠꦱ꧀ (kertas)
** → Khmer: ក្រដាស (krɑdaah)
** → Tausug: kātas
** → Ternate: kartas
* → Ottoman Turkish: قرطاس (kırtas)
* → Portuguese: cartaz
* → Somali: qardaas
* → Spanish: alcatraz, alcartaz
* → Sundanese: ᮊᮨᮁᮒᮞ᮪ (kertas)
* → Swahili: karatasi
* → Thai: กระดาษ (grà-daat)

#### See also

* كَاغِد (kāḡid)

### References

* “qrṭys$^2$”, in The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project, Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College, 1986–
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1886) Die aramäischen Fremdwörter im Arabischen (in German), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 245
* Fraenkel, Siegmund (1880) De vocabulis in antiquis Arabum carminibus et in Corano peregrinis‎ (in Latin), Leiden: E. J. Brill, page 17
* Jeffery, Arthur (1938) The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qurʾān (Gaekwad’s Oriental Series; 79), Baroda: Oriental Institute, pages 235–236
* Lane, Edward William (1863) “قرطاس”, in Arabic-English Lexicon‎, London: Williams & Norgate
* Löw, Immanuel (1928) Die Flora der Juden‎ (in German), volume 1, Wien und Leipzig: R. Löwit, page 567

## Gulf Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic قُرْطَاس (qurṭās).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɡɪrtˤaːs/

### Noun

قِرْطاس • (girṭās) m (plural قَراطيس (garāṭis))
* packaging/wrapping surrounding new products
    الجهاز يديد بقراطيسه ― ij-jihāz yidīd b-garāṭīṣa ― the device is new, in its (original) wrappings

## Moroccan Arabic
### Etymology

From Arabic قُرْطَاس (qurṭās, “target”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /qurtˤaːs/, /qartˤaːs/

### Noun

قُرْطَاس or قَرْطَاس • (qurṭās or qarṭās) m (plural قراطس (qrāṭis))
* bullet (projectile)