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madda

madda 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).

Forms of madda

pluralmadda
pluralmaddas

Questions about madda

What is madda the alternative form of?
Madda is the alternative form of maddah.

Words near madda in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: madda (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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