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Ḍād

Phonemic representation dˤ (ðˤ)
Position in alphabet 26
Numerical value 800

Ḍād, or ṣ́ād (ض), is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In name and shape, it is a variant of ṣād.

The Arabic letter ض is named ضاد ḍād. It is written is several ways depending in its position in the word:

The standard pronunciation of this letter in modern Standard Arabic and when reciting the Quran is the "emphatic" /d/: pharyngealized voiced alveolar stop About this sound [dˤ] , pharyngealized voiced dental stop [d̪ˤ] or velarized voiced dental stop [d̪ˠ].


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