English Explanatory Dictionary

abjad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified.
  2. Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels.
  3. The system of abjad numerals; a numeral system in which the letters of the Arabic abjad are interpreted as numerals, typically used to enumerate lists and nested lists, as well as in numerology.

Pronunciation

/ˈæbˌd͡ʒæd/ /ˈɑbˌd͡ʒɑd/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-abjad.wav

Word forms

abjad abjads

Etymology

From Arabic أَبْجَد (ʔabjad), the term for the traditional ordering of the Arabic script (from the first four letters: أ (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), د (d)). Compare English ABC and alphabet. Linguistics sense coined by Peter T. Daniels.

Synonyms

consonantary

Related words

abugida abgad halaham halḥam abjad numeral

Derived words

abjadic

Translations

Arabic: أَبْجَد Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܒܓܲܕ Armenian: աբջադ Azerbaijani: əbcəd Bengali: আবজাদ Chinese Mandarin: 輔音音素文字 /辅音音素文字 Esperanto: abĝado Estonian: konsonantkiri Finnish: konsonanttikirjoitus French: abjad Georgian: აბჯადი German: Abdschad Greek: άμπτζαντ Hebrew: אַבְּגַ׳ד Hindi: अब्जद Indonesian: abjad Italian: alfabeto consonantico Japanese: アブジャド Japanese: 子音文字 Kazakh: абджәд Korean: 아브자드 Korean: 자음문자 Northern Kurdish: ebced Kyrgyz: эбжед Latin: consonantarium Macedonian: абџад Malay: abjad Malay: ابجد Pashto: ابجد Dari: اَبْجَد Iranian Persian: اَبْجَد Polish: abdżad Portuguese: abjad Russian: абджа́д Russian: консона́нтное письмо́ Serbo-Croatian: suglasopis Serbo-Croatian: ebdžed Spanish: abyad Spanish: abjad Tajik: абҷад Turkish: ebced Turkmen: abjad Urdu: اَبْجَد Uzbek: abjad Yiddish: אַבדזשאַד
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