Arabic word senses marked with topical category "Letter names"
Parent categories: Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Names, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 33 word senses
- ألف (Noun) Name of the first letter of the Arabic alphabet (ا / ا).
- باء (Noun) ba’, name of the second letter of the Arabic alphabet (ب (b)).
- تاء (Noun) ta', name of the third letter of the Arabic alphabet (ت (t)).
- ثاء (Noun) tha’, name of the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ث (ṯ)), representing the sound /θ/
- جيم (Noun) 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)
- حاء (Noun) Name of the sixth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ح (ḥ)), representing the sound /ħ/
- خاء (Noun) Name of the seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet (خ (ḵ)), representing the sound /x/ or /χ/
- دال (Noun) dalet; dal, name of the eighth letter of the Arabic alphabet (د (d)), representing the sound /d/
- ذال (Noun) Name of the ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ذ (ḏ)), representing the sound /ð/
- راء (Noun) Name of the tenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ر (r)), representing the sound /r/
- زاي (Noun) Name of the eleventh letter of the Arabic alphabet (ز (z)), representing the sound /z/
- سين (Noun) Name of the twelfth letter of the Arabic alphabet (س (s)), representing the sound /s/
- شين (Noun) Name of the thirteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ش (š)), representing the sound /ʃ/
- صاد (Noun) Name of the fourteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ص (ṣ)), representing the sound /sˤ/
- ضاد (Noun) Name of the fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ض (ḍ))
- طاء (Noun) Name of the sixteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ط (ṭ)), representing the sound /tˤ/
- ظاء (Noun) Name of the seventeenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ظ (ẓ)), representing the sound /ðˤ/
- عين (Noun) Name of the eighteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (ع (ʕ)), representing the sound /ʕ/
- غين (Noun) Name of the nineteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet (غ (ḡ)), representing the sound [ɣ] or
- فاء (Noun) Name of the 20th letter of the Arabic alphabet (ف (f)), representing the sound /f/.
- قاف (Noun) 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) Name of the 22nd letter of the Arabic alphabet (ك (k)), representing the sound /k/.
- كو (Noun) The name of the Latin-script letter Q/q.
- لام (Noun) Name of the 23rd letter of the Arabic alphabet (ل (l)), representing the sound /l/.
- ميم (Noun) Name of the 24th letter of the Arabic alphabet (م / م), representing the sound /m/.
- نون (Noun) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:; a male given name from Hebrew
- هاء (Noun) Name of the 26th letter of the Arabic alphabet (ه (h)), representing the sound /h/.
- همزة (Noun) hamza
- همزة (Noun) slanderer, detractor
- واو (Noun) Name of the 27th letter of the Arabic alphabet (و / و), representing the sound /w/.
- واو (Noun) Name of the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
- واو (Proper name) Wau (a city in South Sudan)
- ياء (Noun) Name of the 28th and last letter of the Arabic alphabet (ي (y)), representing the sound /j/.
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Arabic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-11-21 using wiktextract (95d2be1 and 64224ec).
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