Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
No pronunciation record was provided for this word.
noun
A class of vowel used in various Arabic script languages, including Persian, Kurdish, and Urdu, among others:
A vowel phoneme that is phonemically equivalent to a vowel in Classical Arabic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
A class of vowel used in various Arabic script languages, including Persian, Kurdish, and Urdu, among others:
A semivowel, or other vocalic character, with a reading that is phonemically equivalent to its normal pronunciation in Classical Arabic.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: broadly
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْرُوف (ma'rūf, “famous”), from Arabic مَعْرُوف (maʕrūf, “known”).
