FromArabicأبجد(ʔabjad), the term for the traditional ordering of the Arabic script (from the first four letters:أ(ʔ),ب(b),ج(j),د(d)). CompareEnglishABC andalphabet.
Linguistics sense coined byPeter T. Daniels.
- IPA(key): /ˈæbˌd͡ʒæd/,/ˈɑbˌd͡ʒɑd/
abjad (pluralabjads)
- Awriting system forArabic, historically also employed as anumeral system, in which there is oneglyph (symbol or letter) for eachconsonant butvowels are not specified.
2014, Agnès Nilüfer Kefeli,Becoming Muslim in Imperial Russia: Conversion, Apostasy, and Literacy,Cornell University Press,unnumbered page:In Rabghuzi'sStories of the Prophets, a teacher asked Jesus, who was seven years old at the time, to repeat the alphabet and theabjad by rote.
2018, Amine Bouchentouf,Arabic for Dummies, 3rd edition, Wiley,page16:Abjad is the writing system used in this book, and it's also the writing system used throughout the Arabic world. For instance, most newspapers you pick up in the Middle East use theabjad writing system, whereby the consonants are included but not the vowels.
- (linguistics) Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels.
- The system ofabjadnumerals; 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 innumerology.
- 1971, Mohibbul Hasan,History of Tipu Sultan, Aakar Books, 2nd Edition, 2005 Reprint,page 399,
- The other names had no significance, except that the initial letter of each month denoted its place in the calendar according to theabjad system, which assigned a certain numerical power to every letter in the alphabet.
2010, Stephen Chrisomalis,Numerical Notation: A Comparative History,Cambridge University Press,page166:As Islam spread eastward throughout the eighth century AD as far as the Indus River, the Indian style of numeration began to diffuse westward and supplant the Arabicabjad, which itself was still a novelty in western regions such as North Africa.
- (writing system with a glyph for each consonant):consonantary
FromMalayabjad, fromClassical Malayابجد(abjad), fromArabicأَبْجَد(ʔabjad).[1]
abjad
- alphabet(an ordered set of letters used in a language)
- Synonyms:aksara,alfabet
- abjad(writing system)
- ^Erwina Burhanuddin; Abdul Gaffar Ruskhan; R.B. Chrismanto (1993),Penelitian kosakata bahasa Arab dalam bahasa Indonesia [Research on Arabic vocabulary in Indonesian][1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan,→ISBN,→OCLC
FromArabicأَبْجَد(ʔabjad).
abjad (Jawi spellingابجد,pluralabjad-abjadorabjad2)
- Anordered set ofletters used in alanguage; analphabet.
- Synonym:alfabet(informal)
- abjad Inggeris ―Englishalphabet
- Anabjad:
- (linguistics) Awriting system where all theletters onlyrepresentsconsonants.
- The Arabicalphabet.
- The Arabicabjad numeral system.
FromArabicأَبْيَض(ʔabyaḍ).
abjad (feminine singularbajda,pluralbojod)
- white
- pale
- calm(of water)
abjad m (pluralabjads)
- (orthography)abjad(writing system with a symbol for each consonant)
- IPA(key): /abˈxad/[aβ̞ˈxað̞]
- Rhymes:-ad
- Syllabification:ab‧jad
abjad m (pluralabjades)
- (linguistics)abjad(writing system)
Abjad numerals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia