Ṯāʾ
Ṯāʾ (ث) is one of the six letters the Arabic alphabet added to the 22 from the Phoenician alphabet (the others being ḫāʾ, ḏāl, ḍād, ẓāʾ, ġayn). In Modern Standard Arabic it stands for the voiceless dental fricative [θ], also found in English as the "th" in words such as "thank" and "thin". In Persian, Urdu, and Kurdish it is pronounced as s as in "sister" in English.
| ← Taw
Ṯāʾ Ḫāʾ → | |
|---|---|
| Phoenician | X |
| Hebrew | - |
| Aramaic | 𐡕 |
| Syriac | - |
| Arabic | ث |
| Phonemic representation | θ (t, s) |
| Position in alphabet | 23 |
| Numerical value | 500 |
| Alphabetic derivatives of the Phoenician | |
| Greek | - |
| Latin | - |
| Cyrillic | - |
| Ṯāʾ | |
|---|---|
| ث | |
| Usage | |
| Writing system | Arabic script |
| Type | Abjad |
| Language of origin | Arabic language |
| Phonetic usage | θ |
| Alphabetical position | 4 |
| History | |
| Development |
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| Other | |
| Writing direction | Right-to-left |
In name and shape, it is a variant of tāʾ (ت). Its numerical value is 500.
Ṯāʾ Media
The main Pronunciations of written <ث> in Arabic dialects.
