sukun

See also: sukūn

English

A sukūn. Note that the dotted line represents the letter to which the sukun is applied.

Alternative forms

sukūn

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic سُكُون‎ (sukūn).

Noun

sukun (plural sukuns)

A diacritic (ـْ‎) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

Translations

Diacritic used to mark the absence of a vowel

Arabic: سُكُون‎ m (sukūn)
Azerbaijani: sukuun
Chinese:
Mandarin: 靜符, 静符 (jìngfú)
French: soukoun (fr) m or f
German: Sukun n
Japanese: スクーン (sukūn)
Kazakh: сукун (swkwn)
Korean: 수쿤 (sukun)
Kurdish:
Central Kurdish: زەنە‎ (zene)

Malay: baris mati, tanda mati, sukun
Pashto: سکون‎ (ps) m (sokún)
Persian: ساکن‎ (fa) (sâken), سکون‎ (fa) (sokun), جزم‎ (fa) (jazm)
Russian: суку́н m (sukún)
Tajik: сукун (sukun), ҷазм (jazm)
Turkish: sükûn (tr), cezm (tr)
Urdu: جزم‎ (jazm)
Uzbek: sukun (uz), jazm (uz)

See also

fatha (fatḥa)
kasra
damma (ḍamma)
shadda (šadda)
tashkil (taškīl)

Anagrams

Nukus

Bragat

Noun

súkun

water

Further reading

D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea, Oceanic Linguistics, volume 7, numéro 1 (Summer, 1968), pages 36-66, page 41

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English school.

Noun

sukun

school

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