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waṣla

waṣla is the alternative form of wasla.

Meaning of wasla

Noun

wasla (plural waslas or wasla)

  1. A diacritic added to the Arabic letter alif ا to form ٱ, also called "hamzatu l-waṣli" - هَمْزَةُ الْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli) or "alifu l-waṣli" - أَلِفُ الْوَصْلِ (ʔalifu l-waṣli). It denotes elision and is seldom used in practice in fully vocalised Arabic texts, only to highlight that the alif is silent هَمْزَةُ ٱلْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli) = هَمْزَةُ الْوَصْلِ (hamzatu l-waṣli).

Forms of waṣla

pluralwaṣla

Questions about waṣla

What is waṣla the alternative form of?
Waṣla is the alternative form of wasla.

Words near waṣla in the dictionary

  1. wazzup
  2. wazīr
  3. wazīrs
  4. Wałbrzych
  5. Wałęsa
  6. waṣla
  7. wb
  8. WBA
  9. WBAFC
  10. WBAFCs
  11. WBAGNFARB

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Adapted from Wiktionary: waṣla (page history and authors); wasla (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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