maddah

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) Arabic diacritic similar in appearance to a tilde. Over an alif ( "alif maddah"), it indicates glottal stop, /ʔ/, followed by a long /aː/. The diacritic is not used separately, only over alif. Alif maddah can appear in the beginning:  or in the middle of a word:.
 * 2) In the Qur'an, it indicates an extra long vowel and can appear over any long vowel.
 * 3) In Persian the letter is used only in the beginning of a word with a long /aː/:.

Translations

 * Arabic: مَدَّة
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: madda
 * French:
 * Hebrew:
 * Japanese: マッダ
 * Persian: ,
 * Russian: ма́дда
 * Urdu: مد