ड

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See also: ॾ, ड़, ङ, and इ

ड U+0921, ड
DEVANAGARI LETTER DDA
← ठ
 		Devanagari ढ →

Translingual

Pronunciation

Letter

ड (ḍa)

  1. A letter of the Devanagari alphabet.

Dhivehi

Pronunciation

Letter

ड • (ḍa)

  1. The eighteenth consonant in Dhivehi, written in Devanagari

Hindi

Pronunciation

  • (Delhi Hindi) IPA(key): /ɖə/,

Letter

ड • (ḍa)

  1. the thirteenth consonant in Hindi

See also

Marathi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɖə/
  • Audio(file)

Letter

ड • (ḍa)

  1. The twelfth consonant in Marathi.

Nepali

Pronunciation

Letter

ड • (ḍa)

  1. The thirteenth consonant in Nepali.

Rajbanshi

Alternative forms

Classifier

ड (ḍa)

  1. a noun classifier, suffixed after words ending in vowels or voiced consonants, except for र

Related terms

Sanskrit

Alternative forms

Alternative scripts
  • ড (Assamese script)
  • ᬟ (Balinese script)
  • ড (Bengali script)
  • 𑰚 (Bhaiksuki script)
  • 𑀟 (Brahmi script)
  • ဍ (Burmese script)
  • ડ (Gujarati script)
  • ਡ (Gurmukhi script)
  • 𑌡 (Grantha script)
  • ꦝ (Javanese script)
  • 𑂙 (Kaithi script)
  • ಡ (Kannada script)
  • ឌ (Khmer script)
  • ຑ (Lao script)
  • ഡ (Malayalam script)
  • ᡷᠠ (Manchu script)
  • 𑘚 (Modi script)
  • ᢎᠠ᠋ (Mongolian script)
  • 𑦺 (Nandinagari script)
  • 𑐜 (Newa script)
  • ଡ (Odia script)
  • ꢞ (Saurashtra script)
  • 𑆝 (Sharada script)
  • 𑖚 (Siddham script)
  • ඩ (Sinhalese script)
  • 𑩨 (Soyombo script)
  • 𑚖 (Takri script)
  • ட³ (Tamil script)
  • డ (Telugu script)
  • ฑ (Thai script)
  • ཌ (Tibetan script)
  • 𑒛 (Tirhuta script)
  • 𑨖 (Zanabazar Square script)

Etymology

Imitative; alternatively, short for डमरू "rattle drum".

Pronunciation

Noun

ड • (ḍa) stem, ?

  1. A sound
  2. A kind of drum or tabor
  3. Submarine fire
  4. Fear
  5. An epithet of Śiva

References

  • Apte, Macdonell (2022) “डः”, in Digital Dictionaries of South India [Combined Sanskrit Dictionaries]
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