Arabic script
English
Noun
Arabic script (plural Arabic scripts)
- The 28-letter abjad used for writing the Arabic language. Derived from the Phoenician alphabet. The Arabic script has been adapted for use in a wide variety of languages other than Arabic, including Persian, Kurdish, Malay, Urdu and some Punjabi dialects.
| Name | ʾálif | bāʾ | tāʾ | ṯāʾ | jīm | ḥāʾ | xāʾ | dāl | ḏāl | rāʾ |
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| Name | zayn, zāy | sīn | šīn | ṣād | ḍād | ṭāʾ | ẓāʾ | ʿayn | ġayn | fāʾ |
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| Name | qāf | kāf | lām | mīm | nūn | hāʾ | wāw | yāʾ | ||
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| Note: 22 letters have four different forms according to their position: Isolated, initial, medial, final. ز, ر, ذ, د, ا and و have an identical initial and medial form, and cannot connect to the following letter (see Wikipedia: Arabic alphabet) for more information. Arabic and derived scripts partly share this peculiarity with other abjads — see e.g. the Hebrew ts (צ), which becomes ץ at the end of the word (called in that case sofiut: suffixes, endings), like four other letters. | ||||||||||
Translations
letters of the Arabic language
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