Arabic Lām

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Arabic Lām is a Semitic alphabet letter representing the /l/ sound, corresponding to the Hebrew Lamed and used extensively in Arabic writing and grammar.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Arabic Lām canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Arabic letter
Semitic alphabet letter
consonant
abjadNumericalValue 30
alphabet Arabic alphabet
blockInUnicode Arabic
categoryInUnicode Letter, Other
commonLigature لا
correspondsTo Lamed
surface form: Hebrew Lamed

Lamed
surface form: Phoenician Lamed
directionOfWriting right-to-left
finalFormGlyph
formsLigatureWith Arabic Alif
geminationPossible true
hasFinalForm true
hasInitialForm true
hasIsolatedForm true
hasMedialForm true
historicalOrigin derived from Aramaic Lamed
initialFormGlyph
isolatedFormGlyph ل
isSunLetter true
joinsOnLeft true
joinsOnRight true
medialFormGlyph
nameInArabic لام
phonologicalBehaviorInDefiniteArticle assimilatesBeforeSunLetters
playsRoleIn Arabic morphology
Arabic orthography
Arabic phonology
Arabic syntax
positionInArabicAbjadOrder 23
positionInModernArabicAlphabetOrder 12
scriptFamily Semitic scripts
soundValue /l/
transliteration lām
UnicodeCodePoint U+0644
UnicodeName ARABIC LETTER LAM
usedInAbjadNumerals true
usedInDefiniteArticle ال
usedInLanguage Arabic
Kurdish (Arabic script)
Pashto language
surface form: Pashto

Persian
Sindhi
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu

Uyghur (Arabic script)
writingSystem abjad

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lamed relatedToLetter Arabic Lām