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خبير خطوط

English translation: handwriting analyst/ expert

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Arabic term or phrase:خبير خطوط
English translation:handwriting analyst/ expert
Entered by: Waleed Mohamed

08:24 Jan 8, 2005
Arabic to English translations [PRO]
Law (general)
Arabic term or phrase: خبير خطوط
الشخص الذي تُحال إليه المستندات للتأكد من صحة التوقيعات
Waleed Mohamed
United Arab Emirates
Local time: 16:52
handwriting analyst/ expert
Explanation:
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
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Nesrin
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:52
Grading comment
Thanks all colleagues
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4handwriting analyst/ expert
Nesrin
4 +1graphologist
Demosthene
4 -3expert in statistics/in data base
yacine


  

Answers


12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
خبير خطوط
graphologist


Explanation:
Typography expert or graphologist

Demosthene
Local time: 14:52
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench, Native in ArabicArabic

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -3
خبير خطوط
expert in statistics/in data base


Explanation:
I think you need a translation from Arabic into English

yacine
Local time: 14:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
خبير خطوط
handwriting analyst/ expert


Explanation:
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

Nesrin
United Kingdom
Local time: 13:52
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Arabic
PRO pts in category: 92
Grading comment
Thanks all colleagues

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
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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