sukun

noun

sukun

noun

/suˈkun/

Etymology Borrowed from Arabic سُكُون (sukūn).

1

A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

  • Near-synonyms: virama, halant
Related terms
damma, ḍamma, fatha, fatḥa, kasra, shadda, šadda, tashkil, taškīl

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