ض

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ض U+0636, ض
ARABIC LETTER DAD
ص
[U+0635]
Arabic ط
[U+0637]
U+FEBD, ﺽ
ARABIC LETTER DAD ISOLATED FORM

[U+FEBC]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEBE]
U+FEBE, ﺾ
ARABIC LETTER DAD FINAL FORM

[U+FEBD]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺿ
[U+FEBF]
ﺿ U+FEBF, ﺿ
ARABIC LETTER DAD INITIAL FORM

[U+FEBE]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEC0]
U+FEC0, ﻀ
ARABIC LETTER DAD MEDIAL FORM
ﺿ
[U+FEBF]
Arabic Presentation Forms-B
[U+FEC1]

Translingual

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Letter

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ض

  1. Arabic letter ḍād

Arabic

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Etymology

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It is hypothesized that the original pronunciation of the letter was a pharyngealised lateral fricative /ɮˤ/. The sound that was represented the letter ḍād in the Arabic alphabet when it was introduced is somewhat uncertain, most likely being introduced on late 7th to early 8th centuries. Early on, its sound was merged with ظ () /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 () in order to maintain its distinction from ظ ().

Pronunciation

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  • (letter name): IPA(key): /dˤaːd/
  • (phoneme):
    • IPA(key): /dˤ/ (standard)
    • IPA(key): /ðˤ/ (commonly in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Tunisia.)
    • IPA(key): /ɮˤ/ (hypothesized pronunciation; classical Arabic)

Letter

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ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض (ḍād)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ص () and followed by ط ().

Derived terms

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Symbol

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ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض (ḍād)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by ذ () and followed by ظ ().

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Balti

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ض (transliteration needed)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Burushaski

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ض (z)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

Chinese

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Letter

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ض

  1. The twentieth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad

Usage notes

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Hijazi Arabic

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Pronunciation

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  • (letter name): IPA(key): /dˤaːd/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /dˤ/

Letter

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ض (ḍād)

  1. The fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ص (ṣād) and followed by ط (ṭāʔ).

Forms

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Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ض ـض ـضـ ضـ

Kashmiri

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ض (z)

  1. The twenty-sixth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

Forms

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Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ض ـض ـضـ ضـ

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  • Previous letter: ص (s)
  • Next letter: ط (t)

Khowar

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ض (z̤u'ād)

  1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Khowar abjad.

Forms

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Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ض ـض ـضـ ضـ

See also

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  • Previous letter: ص
  • Next letter: ط

Malay

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Malay Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia ms

Pronunciation

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  • (Name of letter) IPA(key): [dɔt]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA(key): [d]
  • (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA(key): [t̚]

Letter

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ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض

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

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Pashto

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ض (dwâd)

  1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

Forms

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Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ض ـض ـضـ ضـ

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  • Previous letter: ص
  • Next letter: ط

Persian

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Pronunciation

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  • (Dari, letter name) IPA(key): /zɑːd/, /zwɑːt/, /zwɑːd/, /dwɑːd/
  • (Iran, letter name) IPA(key): /zɒːd/
  • (phoneme) IPA(key): /z/
    Audio (Iran):(file)

Letter

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ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض (zâd)

  1. 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

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Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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  • (letter name): IPA(key): /zwaːt/
  • (phoneme): IPA(key): /zᵊ/, /zwᵊ/

Letter

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ض (ẓwāt)

  1. The twenty-first letter of Punjabi in the Shahmukhi script.

Forms

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Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ض ـض ـضـ ضـ

See also

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  • Previous letter: ص (ṣwāt)
  • Next letter: ط (t̤ōē)

Sindhi

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ض (zwad)

  1. The thirty-second letter of the Sindhi abjad.

Forms

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Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ض ـض ـضـ ضـ

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  • Previous letter: ص
  • Next letter: ط

Urdu

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Pronunciation

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Letter

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ض (zvād)

  1. The twenty-first letter of the Urdu abjad.

Forms

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Isolated form Final form Medial form Initial form
ض ـض ـضـ ضـ

See also

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  • Previous letter: ص (s)
  • Next letter: ط (t)