ض

See also: ص

ض U+0636, ض ARABIC LETTER DAD ← ص [U+0635] Arabic ط → [U+0637]

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

ﺽ U+FEBD, ﺽ ARABIC LETTER DAD ISOLATED FORM ← ﺼ [U+FEBC] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺾ → [U+FEBE]

ﺾ U+FEBE, ﺾ ARABIC LETTER DAD FINAL FORM ← ﺽ [U+FEBD] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﺿ → [U+FEBF]

ﺿ U+FEBF, ﺿ ARABIC LETTER DAD INITIAL FORM ← ﺾ [U+FEBE] Arabic Presentation Forms-B ﻀ → [U+FEC0]

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

Translingual

Letter

ض

1. Arabic letter ḍād

Acehnese

Pronunciation

• (Name of letter) IPA^(key): [dad]
• (Phoneme) IPA^(key): [d], [l]

Letter

ض (dad) (no case)

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

Usage notes

• ض is sometimes nativised as l in Acehnese, as can be seen in lahé and peureulèë.

See also

• Arabic script letters: حرف (haraih, harah) (script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ ^[edit]

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 name): IPA^(key): /dˤaːd/
• (phoneme):
  • IPA^(key): /dˤ/ (Standard, Classical)
  • IPA^(key): /ðˤ/ (commonly in many parts of the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Tunisia and other regions.)

Letter

ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض • (ḍād) (no case)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ص (ṣ) and followed by ط (ṭ).

Derived terms

• لغة الضاد

Symbol

ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض • (ḍād)

1. The twenty-sixth numeral symbol of the Arabic alphabet (traditional abjad order, used for list numbering), written in the Arabic script; preceded by ذ (ḏ) and followed by ظ (ẓ).

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).

See also

• Arabic script letters: حُرُوف (ḥurūf) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي ^[edit]
• Wikipedia article on the Arabic alphabet
• Search for entries beginning with ض

Balti

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z/, [z]

Letter

ض (transliteration needed) (no case)

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

Burushaski

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z/, [z]

Letter

ض (z) (no case)

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

Chinese

Letter

ض (no case)

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

Usage notes

• Only used with Arabic loans.

Hijazi Arabic

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ض • (ḍād) (no case)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Hijazi Arabic alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ص (ṣād) and followed by ط (ṭāʔ).

See also

• Arabic script letters: حُرُوف (ḥurūf) (script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, هـ, و, ي ^[edit]

Kashmiri

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /zɔːd/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /z/

Letter

ض • (z) (no case)

1. The twenty-sixth letter of the Kashmiri alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ص (s) and followed by ط (t).

Khowar

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /zwad/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /z/

Letter

ض (z̤u'ād) (no case)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Khowar alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ص and followed by ط.

Malay

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض (no case)

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

See also

• Arabic script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ ^[edit]

Old Ruthenian

Letter

ض • (z) (no case)

1. (Middle Belarusian Arabica) A letter of the Old Ruthenian alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

See also

• Arabic script letters (script appendix): ا, ب, پ, ت, ث, ج, چ, ح, د, ࢮ, ر, ز, ژ, ش, ࢯ, ص, ض, ط, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي (خ, ذ, ڛ, س, ظ, ء) ^[edit]

Pashto

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /dwɑd/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /z/

Letter

ض • (dwâd) (no case)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Pashto alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ص and followed by ط.

Persian

Pronunciation

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

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Letter

ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض • (zâd) (no case)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Persian alphabet, called ضاد (zâd), ضوات (zwât) or ضواد (zwâd) and written in the Arabic script; preceded by ص and followed by ط.

Punjabi

Alternative forms

• Gurmukhi letter: ਜ਼ (zazzā)

Pronunciation

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

Letter

ض • (ẓwāt) (no case)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Punjabi alphabet, written in the Shahmukhi script; preceded by ص (ṣwāt) and followed by ط (t̤ōē).

Sindhi

Pronunciation

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /zwaːd/
• (phoneme): IPA^(key): /z/

Letter

ض • (zwad) (no case)

1. The thirty-second letter of the Sindhi alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ص and followed by ط.

See also

• Arabic script letters: اکر (akharu) (script appendix): ا, ب, ٻ, ڀ, ت, ٿ, ٽ, ٺ, ث, پ, ج, ڄ, جھ, ڃ, چ, ڇ, ح, خ, د, ڌ, ڏ, ڊ, ڍ, ذ, ر, ڙ, ڙھ, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ڦ, ق, ڪ, ک, گ, ڳ, گھ, ڱ, ل, م, ن, ڻ, و, ه, ء, ي ^[edit]

Urdu

Pronunciation

• (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /zʋɑːd̪/
• (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA^(key): /z/

Letter

ض • (zvād) (no case)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Urdu alphabet, written in the Arabic script; preceded by ص and followed by ط.