All languages combined word senses marked with topical category "Arabic letter names"
Parent categories: Letter names, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Names, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 131 word senses
- ain (Noun) [Italian] ayin; the name of the Arabic-script letter ع
- alif (Noun) [English] The first letter of the Arabic alphabet: ا (ʔalif).
- alif (Noun) [French] alif (Arabic letter)
- alif (Noun) [Italian] the name of the Arabic-script letter ا
- ayin (Noun) [English] The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- ayn (Noun) [English] Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.
- ayn (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ع
- baa (Noun) [English] The letter ب in the Arabic script.
- be (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ب
- chadda (Noun) [French] shadda (diacritic used in the Arabic script)
- cim (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ج
- daad (Noun) [English] The letter ض in the Arabic script.
- dad (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ض
- dal (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: د
- damma (Noun) [English] In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.
- damma (Noun) [French] damma
- elif (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ا
- fari (Noun) [Hausa] a vowel in Arabic script
- fatha (Noun) [English] In Arabic script, the vowel point for a, appearing as a diagonal line placed above a letter ( ـَ ) and designating a short a /a/. If the Arabic letters ا (أَلِف (ʔalif)) or ى (أَلِف مَقْصُورَة (ʔalif maqṣūra)) immediately follow, it indicates a long ā /aː/.
- fatha (Noun) [French] fatha
- fathah (Noun) [Malay] fatha
- fe (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ف
- gayn (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: غ
- ghayn (Noun) [English] The Arabic letter غ.
- ha (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ح
- hamza (Noun) [English] A sign (ء (ʔ) - a stand-alone hamza) used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter or most commonly diacritically over or under other letters, e.g. أ (ʔ) (over an alif - ا), إ (ʔ) (under an alif), ؤ (ʔ) (over a wāw - و (w)) or ئ (ʔ) (over a dotless yāʾ - ى). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule - "seat of hamza rule…
- he (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ه
- heh (Noun) [English] The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- hı (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: خ
- jeem (Noun) [English] The letter ج in the Arabic script.
- jim (Noun) [Hausa] jeem (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
- kaaf (Noun) [English] The letter ك in the Arabic script.
- kaf (Noun) [English] The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك (k)
- kaf (Noun) [Finnish] kaph, kaf (eleventh letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad, twenty-second letter of the Arabic script)
- kaf (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ق
- kasra (Noun) [English] In Arabic script, the vowel point for "i", appearing as a small diagonal line placed below a letter ( ـِ ) and designating a short i /i/. If the Arabic letter ي (yāʔ) immediately follows, it indicates a long ī /iː/.
- kasra (Noun) [French] kasra
- kef (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ك
- laam (Noun) [English] The letter ل in the Arabic script.
- lam (Noun) [English] The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
- lam (Noun) [Hausa] lam (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
- lam (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ل
- maddah (Noun) [English] Arabic diacritic similar in appearance to a tilde. Over an alif (آ (ʔā) "alif maddah"), it indicates glottal stop, /ʔ/, followed by a long /aː/. The diacritic is not used separately, only over alif. Alif maddah can appear in the beginning: آسِف (ʔāsif) or in the middle of a word: قُرْآن (qurʔān).
- meem (Noun) [English] The letter م (m) in the Arabic script.
- mim (Noun) [English] Alternative form of meem (“Arabic letter”).
- mim (Noun) [Hausa] mim (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
- mim (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: م
- moon letter (Noun) [English] One of fourteen Arabic letters that do not affect the pronunciation of the "L" of a preceding definite article (ال- (al--)). The "L" in the Arabic definite article is pronounced "L" when followed by a moon letter: e.g., القُرْآن (al-qurʔān). The fourteen moon letters are: ء (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), ح (ḥ), خ (ḵ), ع (ʕ), غ (ḡ), ف (f), ق (q), ك (k), م (m), ه (h), و (w), ي (y)
- noen (Noun) [Dutch] nun (Semitic letter)
- noon (Noun) [English] The letter ن in the Arabic script.
- nun (Noun) [English] The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- nun (Noun) [Hausa] nun (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
- nun (Noun) [Italian] nun, specifically:; the name of the Arabic-script letter ن
- nun (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ن
- qaaf (Noun) [English] The letter ق in the Arabic script.
- re (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ر
- saad (Noun) [English] The letter ص in the Arabic script.
- sad (Noun) [English] Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”)
- sad (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ص
- se (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ث
- seen (Noun) [English] The letter س in the Arabic script.
- shadda (Noun) [English] A diacritic (◌ّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant.
- sheen (Noun) [English] The letter ش in the Arabic script.
- shin (Noun) [English] The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- shin (Noun) [Hausa] shin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
- sin (Noun) [English] A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
- sin (Noun) [Hausa] sin (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
- sin (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: س
- soukoun (Noun) [French] sukun
- sukun (Noun) [English] A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
- sun letter (Noun) [English] One of fourteen Arabic letters that cause the "L" of a preceding definite article اَل (al-) to be assimilated in pronunciation. The sun letter suppresses the sound of the "L" and then geminates: al + ṣīn = aṣ-ṣīn. The effect of the sun letter is limited to pronunciation and does not affect the spelling, except that a shadda may be written over the sun letter and in the fully vocalised spelling lām…
- taa (Noun) [English] The letter ت in the Arabic script.
- te (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ت
- thaa (Noun) [English] The letter ث in the Arabic script.
- tsade (Noun) [English] The eighteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
- tı (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ط
- uau (Noun) [Portuguese] waw (name of the Arabic letter و)
- vav (Noun) [Finnish] vav, waw (sixth letter of the Hebrew and Phoenician scripts and the Northwest Semitic abjad, twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic script)
- vav (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: و
- wau (Noun) [Hausa] waw (letter of the Arabic alphabet)
- waw (Noun) [English] The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
- yaa (Noun) [English] The letter ي (y) in the Arabic script.
- ye (Noun) [Turkish] Last letter of the Arabic alphabet: ي
- zaa (Noun) [English] The letter ظ in the Arabic script.
- ze (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ز
- zel (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ذ
- zı (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ظ
- şın (Noun) [Turkish] Letter of the Arabic alphabet: ش
- ألف (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the first letter of the Arabic alphabet (ا / ا).
- ئېلىپ (Noun) [Uyghur] alif (first letter of the Arabic alphabet)
- الف (Noun) [Persian] alif (the letter ا, the first letter of the Persian and Arabic abjads)
- باء (Noun) [Arabic] ba’, name of the second letter of the Arabic alphabet (ب (b)).
- تاء (Noun) [Arabic] ta', name of the third letter of the Arabic alphabet (ت (t)).
- ثاء (Noun) [Arabic] tha’, name of the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ث (ṯ)), representing the sound /θ/
- جيم (Noun) [Arabic] gimel; jim, name of the fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ج (j)), representing the sound /dʒ/ (standard), /ʒ/ (Syrian, Lebanese, Moroccan, etc.), or /ɡ/ (Egyptian)
- جې (Proper name) [Pashto] Name of the sixth letter of Pashto alphabet ج
- حاء (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the sixth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ح (ḥ)), representing the sound /ħ/
- خاء (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet (خ (ḵ)), representing the sound /x/ or /χ/
- دال (Noun) [Arabic] dalet; dal, name of the eighth letter of the Arabic alphabet (د (d)), representing the sound /d/
- ذال (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ذ (ḏ)), representing the sound /ð/
- راء (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the tenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ر (r)), representing the sound /r/
- زاي (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the eleventh letter of the Arabic alphabet (ز (z)), representing the sound /z/
- سين (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the twelfth letter of the Arabic alphabet (س (s)), representing the sound /s/
- سین (Adjective) [Persian] seen; read (of a text message)
- شين (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the thirteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ش (š)), representing the sound /ʃ/
- صاد (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the fourteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ص (ṣ)), representing the sound /sˤ/
- ضاد (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ض (ḍ))
- طاء (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the sixteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ط (ṭ)), representing the sound /tˤ/
- ظاء (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the seventeenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ظ (ẓ)), representing the sound /ðˤ/
- عين (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the eighteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ع (ʕ)), representing the sound /ʕ/
- غين (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (غ (ḡ)), representing the sound [ɣ] or [ʁ]; Name of the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (غ (ḡ)), representing the sound [ɣ] or
- فاء (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the 20th letter of the Arabic alphabet (ف (f)), representing the sound /f/.
- قاف (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the 21st letter of the Arabic alphabet (ق (q)), representing the sound /q/ (Standard, Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Druze, etc.), /ɡ/ (Hejazi, Najdi, Libyan, Southern Iraqi, etc.), /ʔ/ (Levantine, Egyptian, etc.).
- كاف (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the 22nd letter of the Arabic alphabet (ك (k)), representing the sound /k/.
- لام (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the 23rd letter of the Arabic alphabet (ل (l)), representing the sound /l/.
- ميم (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the 24th letter of the Arabic alphabet (م / م), representing the sound /m/.
- نون (Noun) [Arabic] The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:; a male given name from Hebrew
- هاء (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the 26th letter of the Arabic alphabet (ه (h)), representing the sound /h/.
- همزة (Noun) [Arabic] hamza
- همزة (Noun) [Arabic] slanderer, detractor
- واو (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the 27th letter of the Arabic alphabet (و / و), representing the sound /w/.
- واو (Noun) [Persian] Arabic letter waw
- ياء (Noun) [Arabic] Name of the 28th and last letter of the Arabic alphabet (ي (y)), representing the sound /j/.
- پې (Proper name) [Pashto] Name of the third letter of Pashto alphabet پ
- ځې (Proper name) [Pashto] Name of the eighth letter of Pashto alphabet ځ
- کاف (Noun) [Persian] Name of (ک), the Persian form of the letter kaf, representing the sound /k/.
- અલિફ (Noun) [Gujarati] The first letter of the Arabic alphabet: ا (ʔalif, “alif”).
- વાવ (Noun) [Gujarati] The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و (wāw).
- ע'ין (Noun) [Hebrew] ghayn (غ), the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet.
- अलिफ़ (Noun) [Hindi] alif (first letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet)
- मद (Noun) [Hindi] madd, maddah
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