ذَال
Where it comes from
All 17 pointsThe tongue tip between the teeth طرف اللسان وأطراف الثنايا
The tip pushes out between the teeth, touching the edges of the upper front teeth, and the air passes over it. Ẓāʾ, dhāl and thāʾ are made here.
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.
- Stroke 1 of 2: part of the letter's body.
- Stroke 2 of 2: a dot, added after the body is finished.
All four forms
The short gold marks show which sides the letter joins to its neighbours.
Dhal doesn't connect to the letter after it, so it has no initial or medial form.
Same shape, different dots
These letters share one skeleton — only the dots tell them apart.
Often confused with
In a word
Isolated
ذَلِكَ
dhaalika
that
Final
نَبَذَ
nabadha
he discarded
In the Quran
ذَلِكَ الْكِتَابُ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ
سورة البقرة
نَبَذَ فَرِيقٌ مِنَ الَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْكِتَابَ
سورة البقرة
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