English word senses marked with topical category "Arabic letter names"

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Total 39 word senses

• alif (Noun) The first letter of the Arabic alphabet: ا (ʔalif).
• ayin (Noun) The sixteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• ayn (Noun) Synonym of ghayn, the letter Ғ, representing the consonant /ʁ/ or /ɣ/, particularly in Kazakh.
• baa (Noun) The letter ب in the Arabic script.
• daad (Noun) The letter ض in the Arabic script.
• damma (Noun) 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/.
• fatha (Noun) 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/.
• ghayn (Noun) The Arabic letter غ.
• hamza (Noun) A sign used in the written Arabic language representing a glottal stop. Hamza may appear as a stand-alone letter (ء (ʔ)) 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]) or ئ (ʔ) (over a dotless yāʾ [ى]). The exact seat of hamza is governed by an orthographic rule – the "seat of hamza rule".
• heh (Noun) The fifth letter of many Semitic alphabets (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• jeem (Noun) The letter ج in the Arabic script.
• jim (Noun) Alternative form of jeem (“Arabic letter”)
• kaaf (Noun) The letter ك in the Arabic script.
• kaf (Noun) The twenty-second letter of the Arabic alphabet. ك (k)
• kasra (Noun) 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/.
• laam (Noun) The letter ل in the Arabic script.
• lam (Noun) The twenty-third letter of the Arabic alphabet, ل (l). It is preceded by ك (k) and followed by م (m).
• maddah (Noun) 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) The letter م (m) in the Arabic script.
• mim (Noun) Alternative form of meem (“Arabic letter”).
• moon letter (Noun) 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)
• noon (Noun) The letter ن in the Arabic script.
• nun (Noun) The fourteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets or abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• qaaf (Noun) The letter ق in the Arabic script.
• saad (Noun) The letter ص in the Arabic script.
• sad (Noun) Alternative form of saad (“Arabic letter”)
• seen (Noun) The letter س in the Arabic script.
• shadda (Noun) A diacritic (◌ّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant.
• sheen (Noun) The letter ش in the Arabic script.
• shin (Noun) The twenty-first letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others): Shin (letter) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• sin (Noun) A letter of the Arabic alphabet; س
• sukun (Noun) A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
• sun letter (Noun) 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) The letter ت in the Arabic script.
• thaa (Noun) The letter ث in the Arabic script.
• tsade (Noun) The eighteenth letter of many Semitic alphabets/abjads (Phoenician, Aramaic, Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic and others).
• waw (Noun) The twenty-seventh letter of the Arabic alphabet: و.
• yaa (Noun) The letter ي (y) in the Arabic script.
• zaa (Noun) The letter ظ in the Arabic script.

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