ma'ruf

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Classical Persian مَعْرُوف (ma'rūf, “famous”)

Noun[edit]

ma'ruf (plural ma'rufs)

  1. a semivowel or diacritic, in Arabic script languages, that is being pronounced similarly to how it would in Arabic. Used to describe vowel quality for vowel characters that have multiple corresponding vowel phonemes in languages such as Classical Persian, modern Dari, and Urdu .
    Antonym: majhul
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