"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), {{m|ar|أ}} أ (ʔ), {{m|ar|ب}} ب (b), {{m|ar|ج}} ج (j), {{m|ar|د}} د (d), {{cog|en|ABC}} English ABC, {{m|en|alphabet}} alphabet 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
    Sense id: en-abjad-en-noun-OSLUmYUH Disambiguation of Writing systems: 46 40 14 Categories (other): Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Assyrian Neo-Aramaic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations: 45 29 26 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 26 26 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 51 21 29
  2. (linguistics) Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels. Categories (topical): Linguistics, Writing systems
    Sense id: en-abjad-en-noun-9Y4ndakt Disambiguation of Writing systems: 46 40 14 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. Categories (topical): Writing systems
    Sense id: en-abjad-en-noun-a~l22rS~ Disambiguation of Writing systems: 46 40 14
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), abĝado (Esperanto), konsonanttikirjoitus (Finnish), abjad [masculine] (French), აბჯადი (abǯadi) (Georgian), Abdschad [masculine] (German), אַבְּגַ'ד (abjad) [masculine] (Hebrew), अब्जद (abjad) [masculine] (Hindi), abjad (Indonesian), 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), اَبْجَد (abjad) (Persian), 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': 48 43 9 Disambiguation of 'writing system': 44 47 9

Inflected forms

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        "1": "en",
        "2": "ABC"
      },
      "expansion": "English ABC",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "alphabet"
      },
      "expansion": "alphabet",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "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.\nLinguistics sense coined by Peter T. Daniels.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "abjads",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "abjad (plural abjads)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hypernyms": [
    {
      "topics": [
        "linguistics",
        "human-sciences",
        "sciences"
      ],
      "word": "signary"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "abugida"
    },
    {
      "word": "abjad numeral"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2014, Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli, Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy, Cornell University Press, unnumbered page",
          "text": "In Rabghuzi's Stories of the Prophets, a teacher asked Jesus, who was seven years old at the time, to repeat the alphabet and the abjad by rote.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Amine Bouchentouf, Arabic for Dummies, 3rd edition, Wiley, page 16",
          "text": "Abjad is the writing system used in this book, and it's also the writing system used throughout the Arabic world. For instance, most newspapers you pick up in the Middle East use the abjad writing system, whereby the consonants are included but not the vowels.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "writing system",
          "writing system"
        ],
        [
          "Arabic",
          "Arabic"
        ],
        [
          "numeral",
          "numeral"
        ],
        [
          "glyph",
          "glyph"
        ],
        [
          "consonant",
          "consonant"
        ],
        [
          "vowel",
          "vowel"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "en:Linguistics"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Languages that use abjads include Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. Abjads differ from syllabaries (such as the Japanese hiragana) in that the vowel quality of each letter is left unspecified, and must be inferred from context and grammar.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "linguistics",
          "linguistics"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(linguistics) Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels."
      ],
      "topics": [
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        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
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      "categories": [
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "1971, Mohibbul Hasan, History of Tipu Sultan, Aakar Books, 2nd Edition, 2005 Reprint, page 399,\nThe other names had no significance, except that the initial letter of each month denoted its place in the calendar according to the abjad system, which assigned a certain numerical power to every letter in the alphabet."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Stephen Chrisomalis, Numerical Notation: A Comparative History, Cambridge University Press, page 166",
          "text": "As Islam spread eastward throughout the eighth century AD as far as the Indus River, the Indian style of numeration began to diffuse westward and supplant the Arabic abjad, which itself was still a novelty in western regions such as North Africa.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "writing system with a glyph for each consonant",
      "word": "consonantary"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ʔabjad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "أَبْجَد"
    },
    {
      "code": "aii",
      "lang": "Assyrian Neo-Aramaic",
      "roman": "ābgād",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "ܐܲܒܓܲܕ"
    },
    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "abǰad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "աբջադ"
    },
    {
      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "əbcəd"
    },
    {
      "code": "bn",
      "lang": "Bengali",
      "roman": "abojad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "আবজাদ"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "輔音音素文字"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "fǔyīn yīnsù wénzì",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "辅音音素文字"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "abĝado"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "konsonanttikirjoitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abjad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ka",
      "lang": "Georgian",
      "roman": "abǯadi",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "აბჯადი"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Abdschad"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "abjad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "אַבְּגַ'ד"
    },
    {
      "code": "hi",
      "lang": "Hindi",
      "roman": "abjad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "अब्जद"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "abjad"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "alfabeto consonantico"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "abujado",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "アブジャド"
    },
    {
      "alt": "しいんもじ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shiin moji",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "子音文字"
    },
    {
      "code": "kk",
      "lang": "Kazakh",
      "roman": "abdjäd",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "абджәд"
    },
    {
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "abeujadeu",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "아브자드"
    },
    {
      "alt": "子音文字",
      "code": "ko",
      "lang": "Korean",
      "roman": "ja'eummunja",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "자음문자"
    },
    {
      "code": "kmr",
      "lang": "Northern Kurdish",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "ebced"
    },
    {
      "code": "ky",
      "lang": "Kyrgyz",
      "roman": "ebjed",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "эбжед"
    },
    {
      "code": "mk",
      "lang": "Macedonian",
      "roman": "abdžad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "абџад"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "abjad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "Jawi"
      ],
      "word": "ابجد"
    },
    {
      "code": "ps",
      "lang": "Pashto",
      "roman": "abjad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ابجد"
    },
    {
      "code": "fa",
      "lang": "Persian",
      "roman": "abjad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "اَبْجَد"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abdżad"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abjad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "abdžád",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "абджа́д"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "ábdžad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "а́бджад"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "konsonántnoje pisʹmó",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "консона́нтное письмо́"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "suglasopis"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "Roman",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ebdžed"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "abyad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "abjad"
    },
    {
      "code": "tg",
      "lang": "Tajik",
      "roman": "abjad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "абҷад"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "ebced"
    },
    {
      "code": "tk",
      "lang": "Turkmen",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "abjad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ur",
      "lang": "Urdu",
      "roman": "abjad",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "اَبْجَد"
    },
    {
      "code": "uz",
      "lang": "Uzbek",
      "sense": "writing system",
      "word": "abjad"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Peter T. Daniels",
    "abjad"
  ],
  "word": "abjad"
}

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