ܡܛܠܩܢܐ

Etymology
in the sense of the diacritic.

Adjective

 * 1) destroying, eliminating, consuming

Noun

 * 1) destroyer, eliminator
 * 2)  linea occultans, mtalqana, the diacritic in the Syriac scripts consisting of one stroke on a letter used to indicate the letter is unpronounced

Usage notes

 * This diacritic is not normally applied to letters which have lost their value on a dialectical level- for example, containing the letter ayn, does not have a linea occultans, despite ayn mostly losing its value in Assyrian-Neo Aramaic dialects