"wasla" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: waslas [plural], wasla [plural]
Etymology: Pseudo-Arabism. Etymology templates: {{pseudo-loan|en|ar}} Pseudo-Arabism, {{root|en|ar|و ص ل}} Head templates: {{en-noun|s|wasla}} wasla (plural waslas or wasla)
  1. (linguistics) A diacritic added to the Arabic letter alif ا to form ٱ, also called "hamzatu l-waṣli" - هَمْزَةُ الْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli) or "alifu l-waṣli" - أَلِفُ الْوَصْلِ (ʔalifu l-waṣli). It denotes elision and is seldom used in practice in fully vocalised Arabic texts, only to highlight that the alif is silent هَمْزَةُ ٱلْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli) = هَمْزَةُ الْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli) Wikipedia link: wasla Categories (topical): Linguistics Synonyms: waṣla Translations (an Arabic diacritic denoting elision of the alif): وَصْلَة (waṣla) [feminine] (Arabic), هَمْزَةُ الْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli) [feminine] (Arabic), أَلِفُ الْوَصْلِ (ʔalifu l-waṣli) [feminine] (Arabic), wasla [masculine] (French), Wasla [neuter] (German), وصله (vasle) (Persian), ва́сла (vásla) [feminine] (Russian), васла (vasla) (Tajik), vasla (Uzbek)

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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