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  2. Dashavatara - Wikipedia

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    The Dashavatara (Sanskrit: दशावतार, IAST: daśāvatāra) are the ten primary avatars of Vishnu, a principal Hindu god. Vishnu is said to descend in the form of an avatar to restore cosmic order. [1] The word Dashavatara derives from daśa, meaning "ten", and avatāra, roughly equivalent to "incarnation".

  3. Avatar - Wikipedia

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    The ten best known avatars of Vishnu are collectively known as the Dashavatara (a Sanskrit compound meaning "ten avatars"). Five different lists are included in the ...

  4. Arabic diacritics - Wikipedia

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    The literal meaning of تَشْكِيل tashkīl is 'variation'. As the normal Arabic text does not provide enough information about the correct pronunciation, the main purpose of tashkīl (and ḥarakāt) is to provide a phonetic guide or a phonetic aid; i.e. show the correct pronunciation for children who are learning to read or foreign learners.

  5. Arabic alphabet - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic alphabet, [a] or the Arabic abjad, is the Arabic script as specifically codified for writing the Arabic language. It is written from right-to-left in a cursive style, and includes 28 letters, [ b ] of which most have contextual letterforms.

  6. Ḏāl - Wikipedia

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    The main pronunciations of written ذ in Arabic dialects. Ḏāl (ذ, also transcribed as dhāl) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the twenty-two inherited from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ṯāʾ, ḫāʾ, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it represents /ð/.

  7. Romanization of Arabic - Wikipedia

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    Romanization is often termed "transliteration", but this is not technically correct. [citation needed] Transliteration is the direct representation of foreign letters using Latin symbols, while most systems for romanizing Arabic are actually transcription systems, which represent the sound of the language, since short vowels and geminate consonants, for example, does not usually appear in ...

  8. Ḍād - Wikipedia

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    The Arabic letters ṣād ص and ḍād ض share the same Semitic origin with the Hebrew tsadi. In Judeo-Arabic orthography , it has been written as צׄ/ץׄ ‎( tsade with holam ), emulating Arabic orthography, where the letter is created by adding a dot to ṣād ص .

  9. Ẓāʾ - Wikipedia

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    Ẓāʾ is the rarest phoneme of the Arabic language. Out of 2,967 triliteral roots listed by Hans Wehr in his 1952 dictionary, only 42 (1.4%) contain ظ. [6] It is the only Arabic letter not used in any country names in Arabic.