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Translingual
Letter
ض
- Arabic letter ḍād
Acehnese
Pronunciation
Letter
ض (dad)
- The sixteenth letter of the Acehnese alphabet, written in the Arabic script.
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Arabic
Etymology
Derived from ص (ṣ), and originally written as such (in rasm) by analogy with Nabatean tradition, as Nabatean cognates of Arabic words with /dˤ/ were indiscriminately spelled using 𐢙 (ṣ).
Pronunciation
Letter
ض / ض / ض / ض • (ḍād)
Derived terms
Symbol
ض / ض / ض / ض • (ḍād)
Note
- The sound that was represented by the letter ḍād in the Arabic alphabet when it was introduced around 700 AD is somewhat uncertain, but it is widely considered to have been a pharyngealised lateral fricative /ɮˤ/. Early on, its sound was merged with ظ (ẓ) /ðˤ/, a merger that is reflected in all colloquial dialects. In dialects with stopping of dental fricatives, both were then shifted further to /dˤ/. When the ability to produce the sound /ɮˤ/ waned some time after its loss from actual speech, the Quran readers reassigned the stop /dˤ/ to ض (ḍ) in order to maintain its distinction from ظ (ẓ).
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Balti
Pronunciation
Letter
ض (transliteration needed)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script
Burushaski
Pronunciation
Letter
ض (z)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script
Chinese
Letter
ض
- The twentieth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad
Usage notes
- Only used with Arabic loans.
Hijazi Arabic
Pronunciation
Letter
ض • (ḍād)
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Kashmiri
Pronunciation
Letter
ض • (z)
- The twenty-sixth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.
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Khowar
Pronunciation
Letter
ض (z̤u'ād)
- The twenty-eighth letter of the Khowar abjad.
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Malay
Pronunciation
Letter
ض / ض / ض / ض
- The sixteenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.
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Pashto
Pronunciation
Letter
ض • (dwâd)
- The twenty-fifth letter of the Pashto alphabet.
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Persian
Pronunciation
Letter
ض / ض / ض / ض • (zâd)
- The eighteenth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ص and followed by ط. Its name is ضاد (zâd), In Dari it may also go by the names ضوات (zwât) and ضواد (zwâd, zwâd).
Punjabi
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Letter
ض • (ẓwāt)
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Sindhi
Pronunciation
Letter
ض • (zwad)
- The thirty-second letter of the Sindhi abjad.
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Urdu
Pronunciation
- (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /zʋɑːd̪/
- (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA(key): /z/
Letter
ض • (zvād)
- The twenty-first letter of the Urdu abjad.
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