Ṯāʾ (ث) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād,...

several different letters. For example, the phoneme /s/ can be written as ⟨ث⟩, ⟨س⟩, or ⟨ص⟩. Conversely, some letters have more than one value: ⟨ك⟩ k may...

𐤕, and Syriac taw ܬ. In Arabic, it also gives rise to the derived letter ث ṯāʾ. Its original sound value is /t/. The Phoenician letter gave rise to the...

This is a list of traditional Arabic place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history of the Arab world and the Arabic names given to them...

with "ـا / ا‎" when in the middle or end of a word. While the letter se "ث‎" represents the phoneme [θ] in Arabic, this letter in Arabic loanwords that...

/ʔ/, /aː/ ـا ا 1 b /b/ ـب ـبـ بـ ب 2 t /t/ ـت ـتـ تـ ت 3 ṯ or th /θ/ ـث ـثـ ثـ ث 4 j /d͡ʒ/* ـج ـجـ جـ ج 5 ḥ /ħ/ ـح ـحـ حـ ح 6 ḵ or kh /x/ ـخ ـخـ خـ خ 7...

occurs in languages which either have no /θ/ sound or where the character ⟨ﺙ⟩ is pronounced differently, such as Persian, Bosnian, Turkish, and Urdu, as...

letters, ق ف ع ظ ط ض ص ح ﺫ ث, appear only in loanwords of Arabic origin borrowed through Persian. Eight of these, ع ظ ط ض ص ح ﺫ ث, represent no additional...

functionally identical letters for /z/ (ز ذ ض ظ), three letters for /s/ (س ص ث), two letters for /t/ (ط ت), two letters for /h/ (ح ه). On the other hand...

pronunciation in Arabic loanwords in those languages is not distinguishable from س or ث, all of which are pronounced [s]. Often, words that have ظ ẓāʾ, ص ṣād, and...