abjad
nounEtymology
From Arabic أَبْجَد (ʔabjad), the term for the traditional ordering of the Arabic script (from the first four letters: أ (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), د (d)). Compare English ABC and alphabet. Linguistics sense coined by Peter T. Daniels.
- derived from أَبْجَد
Definitions
A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which…
A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified.
- In Rabghuzi's Stories of the Prophets, a teacher asked Jesus, who was seven years old at the time, to repeat the alphabet and the abjad by rote.
Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal…
Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels.
The system of abjad numerals
The system of abjad numerals; a numeral system in which the letters of the Arabic abjad are interpreted as numerals, typically used to enumerate lists and nested lists, as well as in numerology.
The neighborhood
- synonymconsonantarywriting system with a glyph for each consonant
- neighborabugida
- neighborabgad
- neighborhalaham
- neighborhalḥam
- neighborabjad numeral
- neighborsignary
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for abjad. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA