Bā '

Ba in isolated form

connected shapes
ـب	ـبـ	بـ
from the right	both sides	to the left

Bāʾ ,باء, is the second letter of the Arabic alphabet . It emerged from the Phoenician Beth ("house") and is thus related to the Latin B , the Greek Beta and the Hebrew Beth . The numerical value 2 is assigned to it.

Sound value and transcription

The Ba corresponds to the German B in "Berta". It is therefore reproduced with a "b" in the DMG inscription.

Graphic modifications

In order to be able to write the “p” sound, which does not occur in Arabic, the letter Pe was developed from the Ba (with three dots) in the Persian alphabet . This Pe is sometimes used in Arabic lexicons, atlases etc. to ensure the correct pronunciation of words in other languages.

Ba in Unicode

Unicode codepoint	U + 0628
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER BEH
HTML	& # 1576;
ISO 8859-6	0xc8