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ض

1. Arabic letter ḍād

The original pronunciation of the letter was a pharyngealised lateral fricative /ɮˤ/. Early on, this 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/ (contemporary standard)
  • IPA^(key): /ðˤ/ (commonly in Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula)
  • IPA^(key): /ɮˤ/ (classical Arabic; obsolete)

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 (ā), ب‎ (b), ت‎ (t), ث‎ (ṯ), ج‎ (j), ح‎ (ḥ), خ‎ (ḵ), د‎ (d), ذ‎ (ḏ), ر‎ (r), ز‎ (z), س‎ (s), ش‎ (š), ص‎ (ṣ), ض (ḍ), ط‎ (ṭ), ظ‎ (ẓ), ع‎ (ʕ), غ‎ (ḡ), ف‎ (f), ق‎ (q), ك‎ (k), ل‎ (l), م‎ (m), ن‎ (n), ه‎ (h), و‎ (w), ي‎ (y)
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• IPA^(key): /z/, [z]

ض (z)

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): /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) حروف‎; ا‎,‎ ب‎,‎ ت‎,‎ ث‎,‎ ج‎,‎ چ‎,‎ ح‎,‎ خ‎,‎ د‎,‎ ذ‎,‎ ر‎,‎ ز‎,‎ س‎,‎ ش‎,‎ ص‎,‎ ض,‎ ط‎,‎ ظ‎,‎ ع‎,‎ غ‎,‎ ڠ‎,‎ ف‎,‎ ڤ‎,‎ ق‎,‎ ک‎,‎ ݢ‎,‎ ل‎,‎ م‎,‎ ن‎,‎ و‎,‎ ۏ‎,‎ ه‎,‎ ء‎,‎ ي‎,‎ ى‎,‎ 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/ invalid IPA characters (//)

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

ض • (zvād)

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

• Previous letter: ص‎
• Next letter: ط‎