Glossary entry

Arabic term or phrase:

خبير خطوط

English translation:

handwriting analyst/ expert

Added to glossary by Waleed Mohamed
Jan 8, 2005 08:24
19 yrs ago
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Arabic term

خبير خطوط

Arabic to English Other Law (general)
الشخص الذي تُحال إليه المستندات للتأكد من صحة التوقيعات

Proposed translations

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handwriting analyst/ expert

I'm sorry, I have to disagree with graphologist. A graphologist, according to the dictionary, is "specialist in inferring character from handwriting", something like an astrologist, only working on handwritings.
A handwriting analyst/ expert CAN mean the same thing, but it is also the person who works on establishing whether a signature is forged, when a letter was written, etc, i.e forensic work with in police investigations and the like.

see:
A handwriting analyst who had been a forensic document examiner for the Chicago police believed that there was no match between Maybrick's writing and that ...
www.crimelibrary.com/criminal_mind/ forensics/literary/1.html
Peer comment(s):

agree Alaa Zeineldine : Better to stick to handwriting expert. Handwriting analysis can also fall under graphology,
19 mins
neutral Mohamed Abdel-Aziz : well u have a point and made me change my other comment. But to be fair I can only stay neutral.
2 hrs
thanks anyway :-)
agree Saleh Ayyub
7 hrs
agree ashraf999
2 days 30 mins
agree AhmedAMS : Agree with Alaa
9 days
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graphologist

Typography expert or graphologist
Peer comment(s):

agree Ali Khaireddine
50 mins
Thanks
neutral Mohamed Abdel-Aziz : well I'm not sure anymore, Nesrin has a point, but a graphologist is a kind of خبير خطوط too
55 mins
Thanks
agree houari
1 hr
Thanks
agree A Nabil Bouitieh
3 hrs
Thanks
disagree Nesrin : sorry to disagree, please see my suggestion below.
4 hrs
disagree Alaa Zeineldine : Agree with Nesrin.
4 hrs
neutral AhmedAMS : Agree with Nesrin
9 days
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expert in statistics/in data base

I think you need a translation from Arabic into English
Peer comment(s):

disagree Mohamed Abdel-Aziz : what have signatures to do with statistics?
45 mins
where do you see '"signatures" ?
disagree A Nabil Bouitieh : Nothing to do with neither.
3 hrs
disagree Alaa Zeineldine : You seem to have read توقيعات (signatures) as توقعات (expectations).// Sorry. Nothing actually because توقيعات simply means signatures.
4 hrs
What have "expectations" to do with it ?
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