ذ

See also: د, ڈ, and Appendix:Variations of "d"

ذ U+0630, ذ
ARABIC LETTER THAL
د
[U+062F]
Arabic ر
[U+0631]
Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ذ ـذ ـذ ذ
U+FEAB, ﺫ
ARABIC LETTER THAL ISOLATED FORM

[U+FEAA]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEAC]
U+FEAC, ﺬ
ARABIC LETTER THAL FINAL FORM

[U+FEAB]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEAD]

Acehnese

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [zai̯]
  • (Phoneme) IPA(key): [d], [z]

Letter

ذ (zai) (no case)

  1. The tenth letter of the Acehnese alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

Arabic

Etymology

Derived from د (d), and originally written as such (in rasm) by analogy with Nabatean tradition, as Nabatean cognates of Arabic words with /ð/ were indiscriminately spelled using 𐢅 (d).

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ðaːl/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /ð/
  • (Main dialectal variations): IPA(key): /ð/, /d/, /z/

Letter

ذ / ‍ذ • (ḏāl) (no case)

  1. The ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet, called ذَال (ḏāl) and written in the Arabic script; preceded by د (d) and followed by ر (r).

Symbol

ذ / ‍ذ • (ḏāl)

  1. The twenty-fifth numeral symbol of the Arabic alphabet (traditional abjad order, used for list numbering), written in the Arabic script; preceded by خ () and followed by ض ().

See also

References

  • Diem, Werner (1980), “Untersuchungen zur frühen Geschichte der arabischen Orthographie: II. Die Schreibung der Konsonanten”, in Orientalia (in German), volume 49, number 1, →DOI, page 74

Balti

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /z/, [z]

Letter

ذ (transliteration needed) (no case)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Burushaski

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /z/, [z]

Letter

ذ (z) (no case)

  1. The eighteenth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

Chinese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /t͡s/, [t͡s], [d͡z]

Letter

ذ (no case)

  1. The twelfth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad, written in the Arabic script.

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /ðaːl/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /d/, /ð/, /z/

Letter

ذ • (ḏāl) (no case)

  1. The ninth letter of the Hijazi Arabic alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by د (dāl) and followed by ر (rāʔ).

See also

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /zaːl/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /z/

Letter

ذ • (z) (no case)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Kashmiri alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ڈ and followed by ر.

Khowar

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /zal/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /z/

Letter

ذ (zāl) (no case)

  1. The seventeenth letter of the Khowar alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ڈ and followed by ر.

Malay

Pronunciation

  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [zal]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [z]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [s]

Letter

ذ / ‍ذ (no case)

  1. The tenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

Mozarabic

Preposition

ذ (ḏi or ḏī)

  1. alternative spelling of ذي (ḏī)

References

  1. ^ Jones, Alan (1988), Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, page 140

Pashto

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /zɑl/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /z/

Letter

ذ • (zâl) (no case)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Pashto alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ډ and followed by ر.

Persian

Etymology

From the Arabic letter of the same form, with the phonetic value [ð].

Pronunciation

Phoneme:

  • IPA(key): /z/

Letter name:

 

Readings
Classical reading? ðāl, zāl
Dari reading? zāl
Iranian reading? zâl
Tajik reading? zol

Letter

ذ • (z) (no case)

  1. The eleventh letter of the Persian alphabet, called ذال (zâl) and written in the Arabic script; preceded by د and followed by ر.

Usage notes

In Classical Persian, the letters' phoneme was irregularly pronounced as [ð] or as [z]. Modern varieties of Persian lack the letter's original Arabic phoneme [ð] entirely, and have shifted the phoneme [ð] to [z].

Punjabi

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /zäːl/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /z/

Letter

ذ • (ẕāl) (no case)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Punjabi alphabet, written in the Shahmukhi script; preceded by ڈ (ḍāl) and followed by ر (re).

Sindhi

Pronunciation

  • (letter name): IPA(key): /zal/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /z/

Letter

ذ • (zal) (no case)

  1. The twenty-fourth letter of the Sindhi alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ڍ and followed by ر.

See also

Urdu

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Letter

ذ • (zāl) (no case)

  1. The thirteenth letter of the Urdu alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ڈ and followed by ر.