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đ U+0111, đ
LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH STROKE
Đ
Latin Extended-A Ē
The letter đ has a variant with the stroke through the bowl, used i.a. in Kiowa

Translingual

Symbol

đ

  1. (NAPA, bowl-struck variant) A voiced dental fricative (IPA )
  2. (Teuthonista) a voiced interdental plosive.[1]

References

  1. ^ Vivaio Acustico delle Lingue e dei Dialetti d'Italia. Humboldt University, Berlin.

Brahui

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (uppercase Đ)

  1. A letter of the Brahui Latin alphabet. Its analog in Arabic script is ڈ.

Jarai

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (upper case Đ)

  1. The eighth letter of the Jarai alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Kiowa

Pronunciation

Letter

(upper case )

  1. (Bowl-struck variant) An unaspirated 't' sound; alphabetized before d.

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Moro

Letter

(upper case )

  1. (Bowl-struck variant) One of several orthographic conventions for the dental consonant [d̪]. Others are Ð ð and Ḏ ḏ.

North Frisian

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (lower case, upper case Đ)

  1. (Sylt) A letter of the North Frisian alphabet, written in the Latin script.

Usage notes

  • Sylt Frisian ⟨đ⟩ represents earlier , which explains the form of the letter. However, it is not an etymological spelling for any original , but is used only in those cases in which the modern pronunciation varies by subdialect between and . (For the shift compare the Danish pronunciation, e.g. of kød, which is quite close to a liquid.)

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Northern Sami

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (upper case Đ)

  1. The seventh letter of the Northern Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (Cyrillic spelling ђ)

  1. The 8th letter of the Serbo-Croatian Latin alphabet (gajica), preceded by and followed by e.

Usage notes

  • Sometimes written as dj.
  • Đ and are quite often confused by non-native speakers.

Sicilian

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (upper case Đ)

  1. This term needs a translation to English. Please help out and add a translation, then remove the text {{rfdef}}.

Usage notes

  • Less common in modern usage, often written DD

Skolt Sami

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (upper case Đ)

  1. The ninth letter of the Skolt Sami alphabet, written in the Latin script.

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Slovene

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Etymology 1

From Gaj's Latin alphabet đ, from Czech alphabet d, from Latin d, which is a modification of capital letter D, from Ancient Greek letter Δ (D, Delta). Pronunciation as IPA(key): /d͡ʑə/ is initial Slovene (phoneme plus a fill vowel) and the second pronunciation is probably by analogy from German d.

Pronunciation

  • (phoneme, standard): IPA(key): /d͡ʒ/,
  • (phoneme, dialectal, educated): IPA(key): /d͡ʑ/,
  • (letter name, standard): IPA(key): /mɛ̀ːxki d͡ʒə́/, /mɛ̀ːxki d͡ʒèː/, /mɛ̀ːxki d͡ʒéː/ (mehki dž)
  • (letter name, educated): IPA(key): /d͡ʑə́/, /d͡ʑéː/, /d͡ʑèː/
  • Rhymes: , -eː

Letter

đ (lower case, upper case Đ)

  1. Additional letter used primarily in loanwords from Serbo-Croatian.

Noun

đ m inan

  1. The name of the Latin script letter Đ / đ.
Inflection
  • Overall more common
The diacritics used in this section of the entry are non-tonal. If you are a native tonal speaker, please help by adding the tonal marks.
Masculine inan., soft o-stem
nom. sing. đ
gen. sing. đ-ja
singular dual plural
nominative
(imenovȃlnik)
đ đ-ja đ-ji
genitive
(rodȋlnik)
đ-ja đ-jev đ-jev
dative
(dajȃlnik)
đ-ju đ-jema đ-jem
accusative
(tožȋlnik)
đ đ-ja đ-je
locative
(mẹ̑stnik)
đ-ju đ-jih đ-jih
instrumental
(orọ̑dnik)
đ-jem đ-jema đ-ji
  • More common when with a definite adjective
Masculine inan., no endings
nom. sing. đ
gen. sing. đ
singular dual plural
nominative đ đ đ
accusative đ đ đ
genitive đ đ đ
dative đ đ đ
locative đ đ đ
instrumental đ đ đ

Etymology 2

Letter d with a stroke to signify partial spirantization, which is sometimes also used in other phonetic transcriptions.

Pronunciation

  • (sound, unofficial): IPA(key):

Symbol

đ

  1. (SNPT) Phonetic transcription of sound .
Usage notes

Although by the description, the corresponding IPA representation should be approximately , no equivalent IPA representation is given in the source.

See also

References

  • Kenda-Jež, Karmen (2017 February 27) Fonetična trankripcija [Phonetic transcription]‎ (in Slovene), Znanstvenoraziskovalni center SAZU, Inštitut za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša, archived from the original on January 22, 2022, pages 27–30

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Letter

đ (lower case, upper case Đ)

  1. The seventh letter of the Vietnamese alphabet, called đê or đờ and written in the Latin script.

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