The letter Dal

دَال

Where it comes from

All 17 points

The tongue tip and tooth roots طرف اللسان وأصول الثنايا

The tip presses against the roots of the upper front teeth — where the tooth enters the gum — and cuts the air off. Ṭāʾ, dāl and tāʾ are all made exactly here.

Also from here:تTaطTaa

How to write it

The isolated form, shown as one common way to write it — Arabic stroke order is not fixed as rigidly as it is in some scripts.

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  1. Stroke 1 of 1: part of the letter's body.

All four forms

دIsolated
Initial
Medial
‍دFinal

The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.

Dal doesn't connect to the letter after it, so it has no initial or medial form.

Same shape, different dots

دDalذDhal

These letters share one skeleton — only the dots tell them apart.

Often confused with

ضDad

In a word

Isolated

دِين

deen

religion

Final

أَحَ‍‍دٌ

ahad

one

In the Quran

IsolatedAl-Kafirun 109:6

لَكُمْ دِينُكُمْ وَلِيَ دِينِ

سورة الكافرون

FinalAl-Ikhlas 112:1

قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَ‍‍دٌ

سورة الإخلاص

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