ض

Letter

 * 1) Arabic letter ḍād

Etymology
It is hypothesized that the original pronunciation of the letter was a pharyngealised lateral fricative. Early on, its sound was merged with, a merger that is reflected in all colloquial dialects. In dialects with stopping of dental fricatives, both were then shifted further to. When the ability to produce the sound waned some time after its loss from actual speech, the Quran readers reassigned the stop  to  in order to maintain its distinction from.

Letter

 * 1) The fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by  and followed by.

Symbol

 * 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  and followed by.

Letter

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

Letter

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

Letter

 * 1) The twentieth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad

Usage notes

 * Only used with Arabic loans.

Letter

 * 1) The fifteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by  and followed by.

Letter

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

Letter

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

Letter

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

Letter

 * 1) The eighteenth letter of the . It is preceded by ص and followed by ط. Its name is, In Dari it may also go by the names  and.

Alternative forms

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Letter

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

Letter

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

Letter

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