Dāl

This article describes the letter Dal (د) of the basic Arabic alphabet. The letters Ddāl (ڈ), Ḍal (ڊ) and Ddal (ډ), which are sometimes transcribed in the same way and derived from Dal, have their own articles.

Dal in isolated form

connected shape
ـد
from the right

Dāl (دال) is the eighth letter of the Arabic alphabet . It emerged from the Phoenician Daleth and is thus related to the Latin D , the Greek Delta and the Hebrew Daleth . The numerical value 4 is assigned to it.

Sound value and transcription

The Dal corresponds to the German D in "Dora". It is therefore reproduced with a “d” in the DMG inscription.

The Dal is a sun letter , i. i.e., a preceding al- (definite article) is assimilated.

Dal in Unicode

Unicode codepoint	U + 062F
Unicode name	ARABIC LETTER DAL
HTML	& # 1583;
ISO 8859-6	0xcf