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ض

1. Arabic letter ḍād

It is hypothesized that the original pronunciation of the letter was 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).

• (letter name): IPA^(key): /dˤaːd/
• (phoneme):
  • IPA^(key): /dˤ/ (standard)
  • IPA^(key): /ðˤ/ (commonly in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Tunisia.)
  • IPA^(key): /ɮˤ/ (hypothesized pronunciation; classical Arabic)

ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض • (ḍād)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ص (ṣ) and followed by ط (ṭ).

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ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض • (ḍād)

1. The twenty-sixth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by ذ (ḏ) and followed by ظ (ẓ).

• (Arabic script letters) ا (ʔalif), ب (bāʔ), ت (tāʔ), ث (ṯāʔ), ج (jīm), ح (ḥāʔ), خ (ḵāʔ), د (dāl), ذ (ḏāl), ر (rāʔ), ز (zāy), س (sīn), ش (šīn), ص (ṣād), ض (ḍād), ط (ṭāʔ), ظ (ẓāʔ), ع (ʕayn), غ (ḡayn), ف (fāʔ), ق (qāf), ك (kāf), ل (lām), م (mīm), ن (nūn), ه (hāʔ), و (wāw), ي (yāʔ)
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• IPA^(key): /z/, [z]

ض (transliteration needed)

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

• IPA^(key): /z/, [z]

ض (z)

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

ض

1. The twentieth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad

• Only used with Arabic loans.

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

ض • (ḍād)

1. The fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ص (ṣād) and followed by ط (ṭāʔ).

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

ض • (z)

1. The twenty-sixth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

• Previous letter: ص (s)
• Next letter: ط (t)

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

ض (z̤u'ād)

1. The twenty-eighth letter of the Khowar abjad.

• Previous letter: ص
• Next letter: ط

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

ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض

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

• (Arabic script letters) 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,‎ گ,‎ ل,‎ م,‎ ن,‎ و,‎ ۏ,‎ ه,‎ ہ,‎ ھ,‎ ء,‎ ي,‎ ى,‎ ی,‎ ے,‎ ڽ ^[edit]

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

ض • (dwâd)

1. The twenty-fifth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

• Previous letter: ص
• Next letter: ط

• Letter name: (Dari) IPA^(key): /zɑːd/, /zwɑːt/, /zwɑːd/, /dwɑːd/
• Letter name: (Iranian Persian) IPA^(key): /zɒːd/

• Phoneme: IPA^(key): /z/

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ض / ض‍ / ‍ض‍ / ‍ض • (zâd)

1. The eighteenth letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by ص and followed by ط. Its name is ضاد (zâd), In Dari it may also go by the names ضوات (zwât) and ضواد (zwâd, zwâd).

• Gurmukhi letter: ਜ਼ (zazzā)

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

ض • (ẓwāt)

1. The twenty-first letter of Punjabi in the Shahmukhi script.

• Previous letter: ص (ṣwāt)
• Next letter: ط (t̤ōē)

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

ض • (zwad)

1. The thirty-second letter of the Sindhi abjad.

• Previous letter: ص
• Next letter: ط

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

ض • (zvād)

1. The twenty-first letter of the Urdu abjad.

• Previous letter: ص (s)
• Next letter: ط (t)