The exception to this are ا (alif), د (daal), ذ (dhaal), ر (raa), ز (zayn / zaa), and و (waaw) which are called selfish letters because they do not connect with others. These letters use the isolated or final form depending on their position.
The first and last character are the baa ( ب ) character, and the middle is the unfriendly alif ( أ ).
Ayin (also ayn or ain; transliterated ⟨ʿ⟩) is the sixteenth letter of the Semitic scripts, including Phoenician ʿayin , Hebrew ʿayin ע, Aramaic ʿē , Syriac ʿē ܥ, and Arabic ʿayn ع (where it is sixteenth in abjadi order only). ← Samekh.
Kasra is a diagonal stroke written below the consonant which precedes it in pronunciation. It represents a short vowel i (like the "i" in English "pit"). Ya' is the long vowel ī (like the "ee" in English "sheep"). It also represents the consonant y.
The Roman numerals are used to symbolize the Arabic letters which don't exist, or rather, the ones that have no phonetic equivalent in English. For e.g., the Arabic letter “ح” (Haa) can't be accurately represented with Latin characters and it is, therefore, represented by the number “7”.
· Kasra looks the same as Fatha except it goes under the letter. And Damma looks like a little ribbon and it goes on top of a letter. · Kasra sounds like the vowel E or I. And Damma sounds like the vowel O or U.
The mark zabar (meaning "over" or "above" in Persian) is also called fatḥah in Arabic. It consists of a tiny slash running diagonally from upper right to lower left, and appears above the letter to which it applies. Here are its possible uses: (1.)
The exception to this are ا (alif), د (daal), ذ (dhaal), ر (raa), ز (zayn / zaa), and و (waaw) which are called selfish letters because they do not connect with others.
Hamza (Arabic: همزة hamzah) ( ء) is a letter in the Arabic alphabet, representing the glottal stop [ʔ]. Hamza is not one of the 28 "full" letters and owes its existence to historical inconsistencies in the standard writing system. It is derived from the Arabic letter ʿAyn ( ع).
Hamza(h) The Arabic sign hamza(h) (hamza from now on) is usually counted as a letter of the alphabet, even though it behaves very differently from all other letters. In Arabic it basically indicates a glottal stop, which is the invisible consonant that precedes any vowel that you'd think is just a vowel.
There is only one weak letter in the Arabic Alphabet. The first letter in the Arabic alphabet, Alif, is a weak letter that has two forms, a consonant form and vowel form.
ح This letter is one of the more difficult for non Arabic native speakers to get used to. Because it's not just a simple “h” sound…but a bit trickier. It's basically what you get when you open your mouth and produce a very deep “hhh” sound from the very back of your throat.
The word beur was coined using verlan for the word arabe, which means Arabic or Arab in French.
The fifth letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is جِيم (jīm), and is preceded by ث (ṯ) and followed by ح (ḥ).
The mysterious letters (muqaṭṭaʿāt, Arabic: حُرُوف مُقَطَّعَات ḥurūf muqaṭṭaʿāt, "disjoined letters" or "disconnected letters") are combinations of between one and five Arabic letters figuring at the beginning of 29 out of the 114 chapters (surahs) of the Quran just after the Bismillāh Islamic phrase.
, Syriac nūn ܢ, and Arabic nūn ن (in abjadi order). Its numerical value is 50. It is the third letter in Thaana (ނ), pronounced as "noonu".
The sukūn ⟨سُكُونْ⟩ is a circle-shaped diacritic placed above a letter ( ْ). It indicates that the consonant to which it is attached is not followed by a vowel, i.e., zero-vowel. It is a necessary symbol for writing consonant-vowel-consonant syllables, which are very common in Arabic. For example: ⟨دَدْ⟩ (dad).
- In this classification the jawf (the empty space in the throat and mouth) has just one makhraj, al-halq (the throat) has three makharij, al-lisan (the tongue) has ten makharij, al-shafatan (the two lips) have two makharij, and al- khayshum (the nasal cavity) has just one makhraj.
دُو (dū) /duː/. damma (plural dammas or damma) (linguistics) In the Arabic script, the vowel point for u, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter ( ـُ ) and designating a short u /u/. If the Arabic letter و (wāw) immediately follows, it indicates a long ū /uː/.
١ one, ٢ two, ٣ three, ٤ four, ٥ five, ٦ six, ٧ seven, ٨ eight, ٩ nine, ١٠ ten.
8 = ق (qaaf)
6=ط=t. 7=ح=h. 8=ait (w8=wait) 9=ص=S.