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Originally Posted by A.alnakkas
The word Ktr كتر exists in the Arab language and as far as I know it refers to something high or long... sounds fitting.
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Salaams ~ I researched and did a cross section study on the word (using 25 university students as my sample base of discussion/ search etc... They came up with the word كتر ktr... meaning "knife like" however you may have another angle... My view is that kattara may have come from the English "cutter" not from the arabic... or translated in from an Indian word "Kattar." I think it is an interesting word switch but seems to evade capture precisely ... and like a lot of other derived words is lost in time ... however, perhaps one day a researcher will turn up the reason in some dusty museum document ~
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.