kashida

See also: kǎshìdá

English

kashida (countable and uncountable, plural kashidas)

(uncountable) A type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated rather than separated by spaces.
- 2008, Thomas Powell, CSS and XHTML: The Complete Reference:
  Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic writing systems to elongate characters...
(countable) A character representing this elongation.
- 1994, Apple Computer, Inc, Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX typography
  Note that "stretching" in this case can mean addition of white space, addition of connecting glyphs, such as kashidas...
- 2002, John Ayres, The tomes of Delphi: Win32 Shell API, Windows 2000 edition:
  However, there is no option for determining whether or not the Arabic Kashidas will be ignored; they will always be ignored in Arabic character sets.

a type of elongation used in some cursive scripts

Arabic: كَشِيدَة f (kašīda)
Hindi: कशीदा (hi) m (kaśīdā)
Persian:
Classical Persian: کَشِیدَه (fa) (kašīda)

Iranian Persian: کَشیدِه (fa) (kašide)
Russian: татви́ль m (tatvílʹ), каши́да (ru) f (kašída)
Urdu: کَشِیدَہ m (kaśīda)

elongation character

Arabic: كَشِيدَة f (kašīda), تَطْوِيل m (taṭwīl)
Hindi: कशीदा (hi) m (kaśīdā), तत्वील f (tatvīl)
Indonesian: tatwil, kasyidah
Malay: tatwil
Persian:
Classical Persian: کَشِیدَه (fa) (kašīda), تَطْوِیل (fa) (tatwīl)

Iranian Persian: کَشیدِه (fa) (kašide), تَطْویل (fa) (tatvil)
Russian: татви́ль m (tatvílʹ), каши́да (ru) f (kašída)
Urdu: کَشِیدَہ m (kaśīda), تَطْوِیل f (tatvīl)

Borrowed from Arabic [Term?].

kashida (n class, plural kashida)

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