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kashidas

kashidas is the plural of kashida.

Meaning of kashida

Noun

kashida (countable and uncountable, plural kashidas)

  1. (uncountable) A type of justification used in some cursive scripts, particularly (Perso)-Arabic, where characters are elongated like a string rather than separated by spaces.
    • Kashida is a typographic effect used with Arabic writing systems to elongate characters...2008, Thomas Powell, CSS and XHTML: The Complete Reference
  2. (countable) A character representing this elongation.
    • Note that "stretching" in this case can mean addition of white space, addition of connecting glyphs, such as kashidas...1994, Inside Macintosh: QuickDraw GX typography, Apple Computer, Inc

Questions about kashidas

What is kashidas the plural of?
Kashidas is the plural of kashida.

Words near kashidas in the dictionary

  1. Kashgharis
  2. Kashgher
  3. Kashi
  4. Kashia
  5. kashida
  6. kashidas
  7. Kashidhoo
  8. Kashihara
  9. kashikoi
  10. kashim
  11. Kashima

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