أبجد

From the first four letters of the Arabic alphabet arranged in the old style, which is similar to the Greek and Hebrew order: أ ب ج د‎. This is the standard alphabetical order used in lists and for numbering paragraphs. The alphabet is divided into these eight barbarous words, as memorialized in a popular children’s song:

أبجد هوز حطي كلمن سعفص قرشت ثخذ ضظغ ʾabjad hawwaz ḥaṭṭī kalaman saʿafaṣ qarašat ṯaxxaḏ ḍaẓẓağ

أَبْجَد • (ʾabjad) m (plural أَبْجَدَات‎ (ʾabjadāt))

1. alphabet, abjad
2. (plural) elementary facts, simple truths

• أَبْجَدِيّ‎ (ʾabjadiyy)
• أَبْجَدِيَّة‎ (ʾabjadiyya)

• الْأَلِفْبَاء‎ (al-ʾalifbāʾ)
• حُرُوف الْهِجَاء‎ (ḥurūf al-hijāʾ)