The dagger alif or superscript alif (Arabic: ??? ??????? alif khanjariyya) is written as a short vertical stroke on top of an Arabic letter. It indicates a long /a:/ sound where alif is normally not written, e.g. ????? h?dh? or ??????? ra?m?n. The dagger alif occurs in only a few modern words, but these include some common ones; it is seldom written, however, even in fully vocalised texts, excepting the Qur'an. As Wright notes "[alif] was at first more rarely marked than the other long vowels, and hence it happens that, at a later period, after the invention of the vowel-points, it was indicated in some very common words merely by a fèt?a [i.e. the dagger alif.]" Most keyboards do not have dagger alif. The word ? (All?h) is usually produced automatically by entering "alif l?m l?m h??". The word consists of alif + ligature of doubled l?m with a shadda and a dagger alif above l?m.
Video Dagger alif
With fat?ah
There are two possible ways of representing the dagger alif in modern editions of Quran. In the editions printed in the Middle East the dagger alif is written with fat?ah: ???????????? (a)r-ra?m?n. In the editions printed in South Asia (Pakistan, India and Bangladesh) the dagger alif is written without fat?ah: ??????????? (a)r-ra?m?ni.
Maps Dagger alif
See also
- Arabic diacritics
References
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