köken: Inherited from Middle French and Old French escriture, inherited from Latin scrīptūra (“a writing, scripture”), from scrīptum, the supine of scrībō (“to write”). Compare Middle French scripture, a borrowing from Latin.
köken: Synchronously, қол (qol, “hand”) + жаз- (jaz-, “to write”) + ба (ba, “affix forming an abstract noun related to the action's process or result”). Cognate with Bashkir ҡуляҙма (qulyaźma, “manuscript”), Kyrgyz кол жазма (kol jazma, “manuscript”), Uzbek qoʻl yozma (“manuscript”), Uyghur قوليازما (qolyazma, “manuscript”), etc.
köken: Synchonously, ҡул (qul, “hand”) + яҙ- (yaź-, “to write”) + ма (ma, “affix forming an abstract noun related to the action's process or result”). Compare with Kazakh қолжазба (qoljazba, “manuscript”), Uzbek qoʻl yozma (“manuscript”), Uyghur قوليازما (qolyazma, “manuscript”).
köken: Borrowed from French calligraphie, from Ancient Greek καλλιγραφία (kalligraphía, “pretty writing”), from κάλλος (kállos, “beauty”) + γράφω (gráphō, “to draw”).