ڐيـﮩڙ ḍehuṛ :
ڐيـﮩڙ ḍehuṛ H s. f. A
volley, several muskets dis-
charged at once. ذ ذ
Called ذال معجمه and
ذال ثخذ is the ninth
letter of the
Arabic alphabet. Its
existence in
Persian, except as a
substitute for د (see د),
appears very
doubtful. It is
pronounced by the Arabs like th in the
English word thou; but, in
Hindūstānī, its sound is not to be dis-
tinguished from that of ز z. In
denoting num- bers by the
letters of the
Arabic alphabet, it
stands for 700: and, by way of
abbreviation, it is
written for
ذوالحجه the last month of the
Arabic lunar year. If ذ be the first
radical of an
Arabic verb, the ت in the form
افتعال is
changed into د, and
either the د or ذ is
changed into the other of the two, which is
doubled; as, from
ذکر comes
اذّکر or
ادّکر.