پ

Character	پ
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER PEH
Arabic	U+067E

See also Appendix:Variations of "p"

Kurdish

Letter

پ

1. The third letter of the Kurdo-Arabic alphabet. Its name is پا (pâ) and it has the sound of English P. It is preceded by ب and followed by ت.

Synonyms

• p

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Pashto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA: /pe/
• (phoneme): IPA: /p/

Letter

پ (pe)

1. The third letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

Isolated form	Final form	Medial form	Initial form
پ	ـپ	ـپـ	پـ

See also

• Previous letter: ب
• Next letter: ت

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Persian

Etymology

From ب (b) with three dots instead of one, added to the Arabic alphabet in the creation of the Perso-Arabic script in order to accommodate the /p/ phoneme of Persian missing from Arabic.

Alternative forms

• پ پ‍ ﭙ ﭗ

Written forms
پ	پ‍	ﭙ	ﭗ
Isolated	Initial	Medial	Final

Pronunciation

• Phoneme: IPA: /p/
• Letter name: IPA: /pe/

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Wikipedia ^fa

Letter

پ (p)

1. The third letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. Its names are په (pe), پِ (pe), and بای فارسی (bâ-ye fârsi, “the Persian ب bāʾ”).

See also

• Previous letter: ب
• Next letter: ت
• Other letters created for the Perso-Arabic script: چ (č), ژ (ž), گ (g)