ة

Letter




Usage notes

 * It mostly exists in grammatically feminine words. It always follows a fatḥa ("a"), and it is replaced with a normal  when a suffix is added, e.g.  ->  ( (ة -> ) + ).
 * When desinential inflection is used in Classical Arabic or in formal Modern Standard Arabic, non-pausal is pronounced as  (preceded by usually unwritten fatḥa "a") and has -u/un, -i/-in, -a/an case endings, e.g.  - "luḡah" (pausal), "luḡatun" formal, non-pausal pronunciation (nominative case, indefinite).
 * Adverbials from tāʾ marbūṭa do not add alif with fatḥatān. Instead, fatḥatān is attached directly to tāʾ marbūṭa and the "hidden t" is pronounced with the ending "-an" e .g..
 * In a more relaxed orthography is replaced with  with the same pronunciation, especially in Egypt and Sudan.
 * Loanwords in other languages (e.g. 🇨🇬 or 🇨🇬) from words with tāʾ marbūṭa use the endings at, et, ah, a or e.

Etymology 2
From, from. See also 🇨🇬.

Etymology
From.

Usage notes

 * Nouns ending in are not always feminine, it can also occur in broken plurals and rarely in masculine singular nouns.
 * According to the dialect, the underlying phoneme may be either or . Among those with, the realization varies according to the previous consonant as follows:
 * “-a” after “emphatic” consonants (ḍ, q, r, ṣ, ṭ, ẓ), e.g., ,
 * “-a” after “throat” consonants (ʔ, ʕ, ḡ, h, ḥ, ḵ), e.g., ,
 * “-e” after the remaining consonants and “r” in the ending “-īr”, e.g., ,
 * silent after a vowel “a”, which is then pronounced long and stressed, e.g. ,
 * In the construct form (i.e. when followed by an enclitic determiner or as the first noun of an idafa), the pronunciation is.
 * In the case of idafa, the spelling remains unchanged:
 * When a suffix is added, the spelling changes to :
 * When a suffix is added, the spelling changes to :