tashkil

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. vowelization, vocalization or diacritization—the various diacritics, taken collectively, that are attached to Arabic letters in certain styles of writing and that indicate such features as vowels and gemination (consonant doubling) and absence of any vowels.

Word forms

tashkil tashkīl tashkiil tashkeel

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic تَشْكِيل (taškīl).

This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.