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ذ U+0630, ذ
ARABIC LETTER THAL
د
Arabic ر
U+FEAB, ﺫ
ARABIC LETTER THAL ISOLATED FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B
U+FEAC, ﺬ
ARABIC LETTER THAL FINAL FORM

Arabic Presentation Forms-B

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from د (d), and originally written as such (in rasm) by analogy with Nabatean tradition, as Nabatean cognates of Arabic words with /ð/ were indiscriminately spelled using 𐢅 (d).

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ðaːl/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ð/
  • (Main dialectal variations): IPA(key): /ð/, /d/, /z/

Letter

ذ / ‍ذ (ḏāl)

  1. The ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is ذَال (ḏāl), and is preceded by د (d) and followed by ر (r).

Symbol

ذ / ‍ذ (ḏāl)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by خ () and followed by ض ().

See also

References

  • Diem, Werner (1980) “Untersuchungen zur frühen Geschichte der arabischen Orthographie: II. Die Schreibung der Konsonanten”, in Orientalia (in German), volume 49, number 1, →DOI, page 74

Balti

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ (transliteration needed)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Burushaski

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ (z)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Chinese

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ

  1. The twelfth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad.

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ðaːl/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/, /ð/, /z/

Letter

ذ (ḏāl)

  1. The ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by د (dāl) and followed by ر (rāʔ).

Forms

Isolated form Final form
ذ ـذ

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ (transliteration needed)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

Isolated form Final form
ذ ـذ

See also

  • Previous letter: ڈ ()
  • Next letter: ر (r)

Khowar

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ (zāl)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Khowar abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form
ذ ـذ

See also

  • Previous letter: ڈ
  • Next letter: ر

Malay

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Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key):
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key):
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key):

Letter

ذ / ‍ذ

  1. The tenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

Mozarabic

Preposition

ذ (ḏi or ḏī)

  1. Alternative spelling of ذي (ḏī)

References

  1. ^ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, page 140

Pashto

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ (zâl)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form Final form
ذ ـذ

See also

  • Previous letter: ډ
  • Next letter: ر

Persian

Etymology

From the Arabic letter of the same form, with the phonetic value .

Pronunciation

Phoneme:

Letter name:

Readings
Classical reading? ðāl, zāl
Dari reading? zāl
Iranian reading? zâl
Tajik reading? zol

Letter

ذ (z)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. Its name is ذال (zâl).

Usage notes

In Classical Persian, the letters' phoneme was irregularly pronounced as or as . Modern varieties of Persian lack the letter's original Arabic phoneme entirely, and have shifted the phoneme to .

See also

  • Previous letter: د
  • Next letter: ر

Punjabi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ (ẕāl)

  1. The thirteenth letter of Punjabi in the Shahmukhi script.

Forms

Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ذ ـذ ـذـ ذـ

See also

  • Previous letter: ڈ (ḍāl)
  • Next letter: ر (re)

Sindhi

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ (zal)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form
ذ ـذ

See also

  • Previous letter: ڍ
  • Next letter: ر

Urdu

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ (zāl)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

Isolated form Final form
ذ ـذ

See also

  • Previous letter: ڈ ()
  • Next letter: ر (r)