# ذ

| ذ | U+0630, &#1584; ARABIC LETTER THAL |
| ← د [U+062F] | Arabic | ر → [U+0631] |
| ﺫ | U+FEAB, &#65195; ARABIC LETTER THAL ISOLATED FORM |
| ← ﺪ [U+FEAA] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﺬ → [U+FEAC] |
| ﺬ | U+FEAC, &#65196; ARABIC LETTER THAL FINAL FORM |
| ← ﺫ [U+FEAB] | Arabic Presentation Forms-B | ﺭ → [U+FEAD] |

## Arabic
### Etymology

Derived from د (d), and originally written as such (in rasm) by analogy with Nabatean tradition, as Nabatean cognates of Arabic words with /ð/ were indiscriminately spelled using 𐢅 (d).

### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /ðaːl/
* (phoneme): IPA: /ð/
* (Main dialectal variations): IPA: /ð/, /d/, /z/

### Letter

ذ / ‍ذ • (ḏāl)
* The ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet. Its name is ذَال (ḏāl), and is preceded by د (d) and followed by ر (r).

### Symbol

ذ / ‍ذ • (ḏāl)
* The twenty-fifth letter in traditional abjad order, which is used in place of numerals for list numbering (abjad numerals). It is preceded by خ (ḵ) and followed by ض (ḍ).

### See also

* Arabic script letters: حُرُوف (ḥurūf) (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, ه, و, ي
* Wikipedia article on the Arabic alphabet
* Search for entries beginning with ذ

### References

* Diem, Werner (1980) “Untersuchungen zur frühen Geschichte der arabischen Orthographie: II. Die Schreibung der Konsonanten”, in Orientalia (in German), volume 49, number 1, →DOI, page 74

## Balti
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /z/, [z]

### Letter

ذ (transliteration needed)
* The eighteenth letter of the Balti alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

## Burushaski
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /z/, [z]

### Letter

ذ (z)
* The eighteenth letter of the Burushaski alphabet, written in the Perso-Arabic script

## Chinese
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /t͡s/, [t͡s], [d͡z]

### Letter

ذ
* The twelfth letter of the Xiao'erjing abjad.

## Hijazi Arabic
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /ðaːl/
* (phoneme): IPA: /d/, /ð/, /z/

### Letter

ذ • (ḏāl)
* The ninth letter of the Arabic alphabet. It is preceded by د (dāl) and followed by ر (rāʔ).

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form |
| ذ | ـذ |

#### See also

* Arabic script letters: حُرُوف (ḥurūf) (script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ث, ج, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ق, ك, ل, م, ن, هـ, و, ي

## Kashmiri
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /zaːl/
* (phoneme): IPA: /z/

### Letter

ذ • (transliteration needed)
* The seventeenth letter of the traditional alphabet chart of Kashmiri.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form |
| ذ | ـذ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: ڈ (ḍ)
* Next letter: ر (r)

## Khowar
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /zal/
* (phoneme): IPA: /z/

### Letter

ذ (zāl)
* The seventeenth letter of the Khowar abjad.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form |
| ذ | ـذ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: ڈ
* Next letter: ر

## Malay
### Pronunciation

* (Name of letter) IPA: [zal]
* (Phoneme, Syllable initial) IPA: [z]
* (Phoneme, Syllable final) IPA: [s]

### Letter

ذ / ‍ذ
* The tenth letter of the Malay alphabet, written in the Arabic script.

#### See also

* Arabic script letters (alphabet appendix, script appendix): ا, ب, ت, ة, ث, ج, چ, ح, خ, د, ذ, ر, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ڠ, ف, ڤ, ق, ک, ݢ, ل, م, ن, و, ۏ, ه, ء, ي, ى, ڽ

## Mozarabic
### Preposition

ذ (ḏi or ḏī)
* Alternative spelling of ذي (ḏī)
** c. 1100, al-Aʕmā al-Tuṭīlī, Kharja A19 :لفَاج ذِ مَطْرَانَهْla-fāja ḏi maṭrānaThe face of dawn

### References

* ↑ Jones, Alan (1988) Romance Kharjas in Andalusian Arabic Muwaššaḥ Poetry (Oxford Oriental Institute Monographs; 9), Ithaca Press London, →ISBN, page 140

## Pashto
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /zɑl/
* (phoneme): IPA: /z/

### Letter

ذ • (zâl)
* The fifteenth letter of the Pashto alphabet.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form |
| ذ | ـذ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: ډ
* Next letter: ر

## Persian
### Etymology

From the Arabic letter of the same form, with the phonetic value.

### Pronunciation

Phoneme:
* IPA: /z/
Letter name:
* (Classical Persian) IPA: [ðɑːl], [zɑːl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zɑːl]
* (Dari, formal) IPA: [zɑːl]
** (Kabuli) IPA: [zɑːl]
** (Hazaragi) IPA: [zɔːl̥]
* (Iran, formal) IPA: [zɒːl̥]
* (Tajik, formal) IPA: [zɔl]

### Letter

ذ • (z)
* The eleventh letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. Its name is ذال (zâl).

#### Usage notes

In Classical Persian, the letters' phoneme was irregularly pronounced as or as. Modern varieties of Persian lack the letter's original Arabic phoneme [ð] entirely, and have shifted the phoneme [ð] to [z].

### See also

* Previous letter: د
* Next letter: ر

## Punjabi
### Alternative forms

* Gurmukhi letter: ਜ਼ (za)

### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /zäːl/
* (phoneme): IPA: /z/

### Letter

ذ • (ẕāl)
* The thirteenth letter of Punjabi in the Shahmukhi script.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
| ذ | ـذ | ـذـ | ذـ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: ڈ (ḍāl)
* Next letter: ر (re)

## Sindhi
### Pronunciation

* (letter name): IPA: /zal/
* (phoneme): IPA: /z/

### Letter

ذ • (zal)
* The twenty-fourth letter of the Sindhi abjad.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form |
| ذ | ـذ |

#### See also

* Arabic script letters: اکر (akharu) (script appendix): ا, ب, ٻ, ڀ, ت, ٿ, ٽ, ٺ, ث, پ, ج, ڄ, جھ, ڃ, چ, ڇ, ح, خ, د, ڌ, ڏ, ڊ, ڍ, ذ, ر, ڙ, ڙھ, ز, س, ش, ص, ض, ط, ظ, ع, غ, ف, ڦ, ق, ڪ, ک, گ, ڳ, گھ, ڱ, ل, م, ن, ڻ, و, ه, ء, ي
* Previous letter: ڍ
* Next letter: ر

## Urdu
### Alternative forms

* ज़ (za)

### Pronunciation

* (letter name): (Standard Urdu) IPA: /zɑːl/
* (phoneme): (Standard Urdu) IPA: /z/

### Letter

ذ • (zāl)
* The thirteenth letter of the Urdu abjad.

#### Forms

| Isolated form | Final form |
| ذ | ـذ |

#### See also

* Previous letter: ڈ (ḍ)
* Next letter: ر (r)