"abjad" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: abjads [plural]
Etymology: From Arabic أبجد (ʔabjad), the term for the traditional ordering of the Arabic script (from the first four letters: أ (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), د (d)). Compare English ABC and alphabet. Linguistics sense coined by Peter T. Daniels. Etymology templates: {{der|en|ar|أبجد|tr=ʔabjad}} Arabic أبجد (ʔabjad), {{cog|en|ABC}} English ABC Head templates: {{en-noun}} abjad (plural abjads)
  1. A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified. Categories (topical): Writing systems
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  2. (linguistics) Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels. Categories (topical): Linguistics
    Sense id: en-abjad-en-noun-9Y4ndakt Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
  3. The system of abjad numerals; a numeral system in which the letters of the Arabic abjad are interpreted as numerals, typically used to enumerate lists and nested lists, as well as in numerology.
    Sense id: en-abjad-en-noun-a~l22rS~ Categories (other): Pages with 6 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Pages with 6 entries: 18 9 12 3 2 4 5 24 20 0 2 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 19 6 13 2 1 2 5 27 22 0 1 1
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (writing system with a glyph for each consonant): consonantary Hypernyms: signary [linguistics, human-sciences, sciences] Derived forms: abjadic Related terms: abugida, abjad numeral Translations (writing system): أَبْجَد (ʔabjad) [masculine] (Arabic), աբջադ (abǰad) (Armenian), ܐܲܒܓܲܕ (ābgād) (Assyrian Neo-Aramaic), əbcəd (Azerbaijani), আবজাদ (abojad) (Bengali), 輔音音素文字 (Chinese Mandarin), 辅音音素文字 (fǔyīn yīnsù wénzì) (Chinese Mandarin), اَبْجَد (abjad) (Dari), abĝado (Esperanto), konsonanttikirjoitus (Finnish), abjad [masculine] (French), აბჯადი (abǯadi) (Georgian), Abdschad [masculine] (German), אַבְּגַ'ד (abjad) [masculine] (Hebrew), अब्जद (abjad) [masculine] (Hindi), abjad (Indonesian), اَبْجَد (abjad) (Iranian Persian), alfabeto consonantico [masculine] (Italian), アブジャド (abujado) (Japanese), 子音文字 (shiin moji) (alt: しいんもじ) (Japanese), абджәд (abdjäd) (Kazakh), 아브자드 (abeujadeu) (Korean), 자음문자 (ja'eummunja) (alt: 子音文字) (Korean), эбжед (ebjed) (Kyrgyz), абџад (abdžad) [masculine] (Macedonian), abjad (Malay), ابجد [Jawi] (Malay), ebced (Northern Kurdish), ابجد (abjad) [masculine] (Pashto), abdżad [masculine] (Polish), abjad [masculine] (Portuguese), абджа́д (abdžád) [masculine] (Russian), а́бджад (ábdžad) [masculine] (Russian), консона́нтное письмо́ (konsonántnoje pisʹmó) [neuter] (Russian), suglasopis [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), ebdžed [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), abyad [masculine] (Spanish), abjad (Spanish), абҷад (abjad) (Tajik), ebced (Turkish), abjad (Turkmen), اَبْجَد (abjad) [masculine] (Urdu), abjad (Uzbek)
Disambiguation of 'writing system with a glyph for each consonant': 49 40 12 Disambiguation of 'writing system': 44 44 13

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