"kasra" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: kasras [plural]
Etymology: Borrowed from Arabic كَسْرَة (kasra, “a breaking”), instance noun of the verb كَسَرَ (kasara, “to break”). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ar|كَسْرَة||a breaking}} Arabic كَسْرَة (kasra, “a breaking”), {{ar-instance noun|lc=1|nocat=1}} instance noun, {{m|ar|كَسَرَ||to break}} كَسَرَ (kasara, “to break”), {{root|en|ar|ك س ر}} Head templates: {{en-noun}} kasra (plural kasras)
  1. 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/. Categories (topical): Arabic letter names
    Sense id: en-kasra-en-noun-iPb4L0Qj Disambiguation of Arabic letter names: 64 36 Categories (other): Arabic terms with non-redundant manual transliterations, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 47
  2. In a fully vocalised Persian ـِ represents the vowel /e/ and is only used in front of ـی to represent a diphthong, so unmarked دی is /di/ but دِی with the diacritic is /dej/. This usage is different from Arabic.
    Sense id: en-kasra-en-noun--Dkk076o Categories (other): Persian links with redundant target parameters, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 53 47
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: kasrah Related terms: fatha (alt: fatḥa), damma (alt: ḍamma), sukun (alt: sukūn), shadda (alt: šadda), tashkil (alt: taškīl) Translations (kasra): كَسْرَة (kasra) [feminine] (Arabic), kəsrə (Azerbaijani), ژێر (jêr) (Central Kurdish), 齊齒符 (Chinese Mandarin), 齐齿符 (qíchǐfú) (Chinese Mandarin), kasra [feminine, masculine] (French), Kasra [neuter] (German), カスラ (kasura) (Japanese), кәсра (käsra) (Kazakh), 카스라 (kaseura) (Korean), baris di bawah (Malay), kasrah (Malay), kesre (Northern Kurdish), كسره (kesre) (Ottoman Turkish), کسره (kasrá) [feminine] (Pashto), کسره (kasre) (Persian), زیر (zir) (Persian), ка́сра (kásra) [feminine] (Russian), кя́сра (kjásra) [feminine] (Russian), касра (kasra) (Tajik), зер (zer) (Tajik), kesra (Turkish), esre (Turkish), کسرہ (kasra) (Urdu), زیر (zer) (Urdu), kasra (Uzbek), zer (Uzbek)
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