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Ṯāʾ

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Ṯāʾ
Arabic
ث
Phonemic representationθ (t, s)
Position in alphabet23
Numerical value500
Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician
Ṯāʾ ثاء
ث
Usage
Writing systemArabic script
TypeAbjad
Language of origenArabic language
Sound valuesθ
Alphabetical position4
History
Development
𐤕
  • 𐡕‎
    • 𐢞‎
      • ٮ
        • ث
Other
Writing directionRight-to-left
This article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA). For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. For the distinction between [ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters.

Ṯāʾ (ث) is the fourth letter of the Arabic alphabet,[1] one of the six letters not in the twenty-two akin to the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents the voiceless dental fricative [θ], also found in English as the "th" in words such as "thank" and "thin". In Persian, Urdu, and Kurdish it is pronounced as s as in "sister" in English. Ṯāʾ, along those with the letter shīn, are the only two surviving Arabic letters with three dots above. In most European languages, it is mostly romanized as the digraph th. In other languages, such as Indonesian, this Arabic letter is often romanized as ts and .

The most common transliteration in English is "th", e.g. Ethiopia (إثيوبيا), thawb (ثوب).

In name and shape, it is a variant of tāʾ (ت).[2] Its numerical value is 500 (see Abjad numerals).

The Arabic letter ث is named ثَاءْ ṯāʾ. It is written in several ways depending in its position in the word:

Position in word Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form:
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ث ـث ـثـ ثـ

In contemporary spoken Arabic, pronunciation of ṯāʾ as [θ] is found in the Arabian Peninsula, Iraqi, and Tunisian and other dialects and in highly educated pronunciations of Modern Standard and Classical Arabic. Pronunciation of the letter varies between and within the various varieties of Arabic: while it is consistently pronounced as the voiceless dental plosive [t] in Maghrebi Arabic (except Tunisian and eastern Libyan), on the other hand in the Arabic varieties of the Mashriq (in the broad sense, including Egyptian, Sudanese and Levantine) and Hejazi Arabic, it is pronounced as the sibilant voiceless alveolar fricative [s] in loanwords from Literary Arabic.

When representing this sound in transliteration of Arabic into Hebrew, it is written as ת׳.

Common Semitic perspective

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The choice of the letter tāʾ as the base for this letter was not due to etymology (see History of the Arabic alphabet), but rather due to phonetic similarity. For other Semitic cognates of the phoneme see Sound changes between Proto-Semitic and the daughter languages.

Ethiopia is the only country name in Arabic that uses the letter ṯāʾ on their name.

Character encodings

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Character information
Preview ث
Unicode name ARABIC LETTER THEH
Encodings decimal hex
Unicode 1579 U+062B
UTF-8 216 171 D8 AB
Numeric character reference ث ث

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Dichy, Joseph (2019-01-08), "The Intriguing Issue of Dictionary Arrangement in Medieval Arabic Lexicography", The Foundations of Arabic Linguistics IV, Brill, pp. 123–132, ISBN 978-90-04-38969-4, retrieved 2024-12-04
  2. ^ Sykes, Sarah (2019-05-22). "Fragment of the Month: June 2019". www.lib.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-12-04.










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