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  2. Arabic diacritics - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The Arabic script has numerous diacritics, which include consonant pointing known as iʻjām (إِعْجَام), and supplementary diacritics known as tashkīl (تَشْكِيل). The latter include the vowel marks termed ḥarakāt (حَرَكَات; sg. حَرَكَة, ḥarakah). The Arabic script is a modified abjad, where short ...

  3. Shaddah - Wikipedia

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    Shaddah. Shaddah (Arabic: شَدّة shaddah [ˈʃæd.dæ], " [sign of] emphasis", also called by the verbal noun from the same root, tashdid تشديد tashdīd "emphasis") is one of the diacritics used with the Arabic alphabet, indicating a geminated consonant. It is functionally equivalent to writing a consonant twice in the orthographies of ...

  4. Arabic grammar - Wikipedia

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    Arabic grammar (Arabic: النَّحْوُ العَرَبِيُّ) is the grammar of the Arabic language. Arabic is a Semitic language and its grammar has many similarities with the grammar of other Semitic languages. Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic have largely the same grammar; colloquial spoken varieties of Arabic can vary in ...

  5. Qur'anic punctuation - Wikipedia

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    The Qur'an (lit. recitation) is meant to be recited. Its verses are divided according to the rhythm of the language. The Qur'anic punctuation is, therefore, not only based on the structure or the syntax of the sentence, but also on the need to pause, for breath or for effect. Pickthall observes, when a certain sound which marks the rhythm ...

  6. Category:Arabic diacritics - Wikipedia

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    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arabic diacritics. Arabic diacritics include i'jam (in Arabic: إِعْجَام , ʾiʿǧām, consonant pointing marks), the combining forms of hamza ( الهَمْزة , (al-)hamzah, a semi-consonant which may occur as diacritics) and tashkil ( تَشْكِيل , taškīl, vowel pointing diacritics).

  7. Hamza - Wikipedia

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    The hamza (Arabic: هَمْزَة hamza) (ء ‎) is an Arabic script character that, in the Arabic alphabet, denotes a glottal stop and, in non-Arabic languages, indicates a diphthong, vowel, or other features, depending on the language. Derived from the letter ʿAyn (ع ‎), [1] the hamza is written in initial, medial and final positions as ...

  8. Taw - Wikipedia

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    Latin. T. Cyrillic. Т. Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician tāw 𐤕, Hebrew tav ת ‎, Aramaic taw 𐡕‎, Syriac taw ܬ, and Arabic tāʾ ت ‎ (22nd in abjadi order, 3rd in modern order). In Arabic, it also gives rise to the derived letter ث ṯāʾ. Its original sound value ...

  9. Wasla - Wikipedia

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    The waṣla (Arabic: ‏ وَصْلَة ‎, lit. 'an instance of connection') or hamzatu l-waṣli (هَمْزَةُ ٱلْوَصْلِ, ' hamza of connection') is a variant of the letter hamza (ء) resembling part of the letter ṣād (ص) that is sometimes placed over the letter ʾalif at the beginning of the word (ٱ). The ʾalif with ...