sukun in Arabic
سُكُون sukūn
/suˈkun/
sukun in Arabic: سُكُون (sukūn). In English, sukun means a diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
Arabic words for sukun
- Diacritic used to mark the absence of a vowel
- سُكُون sukūn
English meaning of sukun
- noun A diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
sukun in a sentence
- Near-synonyms: virama, halant
Synonyms of sukun
sukun in other languages
Questions about sukun in Arabic
- What is the meaning of sukun in Arabic?
- Sukun in Arabic is سُكُون (sukūn).
- ما معنى كلمة sukun؟
- Sukun: سُكُون (sukūn).
- What does sukun mean in English?
- Sukun means a diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: sukun (page history and authors), its translation table and English meanings. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the Arabic words and English meanings and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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