Arabic word senses marked with topical category "Arabic punctuation marks"
Parent categories: Punctuation marks, Letters, symbols, and punctuation, Symbols, Orthography, Writing, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Total 14 word senses
- ، (Punctuation) the comma
- ؗ (Punctuation) A marking used in Qur'anic scripture to indicate that while a pause can be made at the point it appears in the text, it is recommended that one recite the scripture without a pause. Semantically, it is more or less equivalent to the Qur'anic symbol used in the Arab world, ﷰ. This character is also comparable to small high ط (which is used in Iran as roughly equivalent to ﷱ).
- ؛ (Punctuation) The semicolon.
- ؟ (Punctuation) the question mark
- ۖ (Punctuation) A mark in the Qur'an indicating an optional pause.
- ۗ (Punctuation) A marking used in Quranic scripture to denote a pause, almost always at the end of a sentence.
- ۘ (Punctuation) A diacritic used in the Qur'an to indicate a required pause
- ۙ (Punctuation) A diacritic used in the Qur'an to indicate that the reader should NOT pause.
- ۚ (Punctuation) Arabic Puncuation mark. It marks that you COULD read it nonstop, but you don't have to. If you read it nonstop then you have to pronounce that letter
- ۛ (Punctuation) Quran 2:2
- ۜ (Character) A small pause without taking a breath whilst reading the Holy Qur'an
- (Symbol) Marks the end of a verse in the Qur'an, the number of the verse being enclosed within the symbol.
- ⠐⠂ (Punctuation) the colon, ⟨:⟩
- « » (Punctuation) Encloses a quotation.
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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 2025-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-20 using wiktextract (c15a5ce and 5c11237).
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