Wasla

The waṣla (Arabic: ‏وَصْلَة‎‎, lit. 'an instance of connection') or hamzatu l-waṣli (هَمْزَةُ ٱلْوَصْلِ, 'hamza of connection') is an Arabic diacritic resembling part of the letter ṣād (ص) that is sometimes placed over the letter ʾalif at the beginning of the word (ٱ). The ʾalif with waṣla over it is called the ʾalifu l-waṣli (أَلِفُ ٱلْوَصْلِ, 'aleph of connection'). It indicates that the alif is not pronounced as a glottal stop (written with the letter or diacritic hamza ء), but that the word is connected to the previous word (like liaison in French). Outside of vocalised texts, the waṣla is usually not written.[1][2]

ٱ

Examples
  1. وَٱسْمُ ٱبْنَتِهِ هِنْدُ (wa-smu bnati-hi hindu) — And his daughter's name is Hind.
  2. يُرِيدُ أَنْ يقرأ لإِحْدَى ٱبْنَتَيِهِ (yurīdu ʾan eaqr'a le iḥdā bnatayi-hi) — He wants to read to one of his daughters.
  3. مَا ٱسْمُكَ (mā smu-ka) — What is your name?

References
  1. Alhonen, Miikka-Markus. "Proposal for encoding the combining diacritic Arabic wasla" (PDF). unicode.org. Retrieved 25 March 2014.
  2. Price, James M. "Helping Vowels and the Elidable Hamza". Arabic Language Lessons: All The Arabic You Never Learned The First Time Around. Retrieved 25 March 2014.


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