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ضمة

ضمة

Arabic

Noun

ضَمَّة (ḍamma) f

  1. an embracing
  2. a number of horses assembled from every quarter for a race
  3. (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

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