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madd

/mæd/

madd is the alternative form of maddah.

Meaning of maddah

Noun

maddah (plural maddahs)

  1. Arabic diacritic similar in appearance to a tilde. Over an alif (آ (ʔā) "alif maddah"), it indicates glottal stop, /ʔ/, followed by a long /aː/. The diacritic is not used separately, only over alif. Alif maddah can appear in the beginning: آسِف (ʔāsif) or in the middle of a word: قُرْآن (qurʔān).
  2. In the Qur'an, it indicates an extra long vowel and can appear over any long vowel.
  3. In Persian the letter is used only in the beginning of a word with a long /aː/: آمدن (âmadan).

Proper noun capitalized: MADD

MADD

  1. (abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Mothers Against Drunk Driving.

Forms of madd

pluralmadds

Words that rhyme with madd

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Questions about madd

What is madd the alternative form of?
Madd is the alternative form of maddah.
What part of speech is madd?
Madd is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce madd?
Madd is pronounced /mæd/.

Words near madd in the dictionary

  1. madcaps
  2. Madchester
  3. madchild
  4. madchildren
  5. MaDCoWS
  6. madd
  7. madda
  8. maddah
  9. maddahs
  10. maddalam
  11. maddale

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Adapted from Wiktionary: madd (page history and authors); MADD (page history and authors); maddah (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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