péés

Sundanese

Etymology

Borrowed from Persian پیش (pēš, “in front, in advance, damma”), from Middle Persian.

Noun

péés or ᮕᮦᮆᮞ᮪ • (péés)

1. (linguistics) damma, the diacritic in the Arabic script that represents the vowel /u/: ـُ.

   Synonym: panyuku

   Coordinate terms: jabar, jéér, péés

Further reading

• Coolsma, S (1913) Soendaneesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek (in Dutch), Leiden: A.W. Sijthoff's Uitgeversmaatschappij