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ضمة
ضمة
Arabic
Noun
ضَمَّة • (ḍamma) f
- an embracing
- a number of horses assembled from every quarter for a race
- (linguistics, grammar) damma, the diacritic in the Arabic script that represents the vowel /u/, appearing as a small curl placed above a letter: ـُ
Declension
Declension of noun ضَمَّة (ḍamma)
| Singular | singular triptote in ـَة (-a) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Indefinite | Definite | Construct | |
| Informal | ضَمَّة ḍamma |
الضَّمَّة aḍ-ḍamma |
ضَمَّة ḍammat |
| Nominative | ضَمَّةٌ ḍammatun |
الضَّمَّةُ aḍ-ḍammatu |
ضَمَّةُ ḍammatu |
| Accusative | ضَمَّةً ḍammatan |
الضَّمَّةَ aḍ-ḍammata |
ضَمَّةَ ḍammata |
| Genitive | ضَمَّةٍ ḍammatin |
الضَّمَّةِ aḍ-ḍammati |
ضَمَّةِ ḍammati |
References
- “ضمة” in Edward William Lane (1863), Arabic-English Lexicon, London: Williams & Norgate
- Wehr, Hans (1979), “ضمة”, in J. Milton Cowan, editor, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, 4th edition, Ithaca, NY: Spoken Language Services, ISBN 0-87950-003-4