Anti-vowels - B

B- Anti-vowels (Real and Unreal Quiescence)

Anti-Vowel Sign
Anti-Vowel English Name	Real Quiescence
Anti-Vowel Arabic Name Transliterated	/Sukun/
Short Vowel Arabic Name	سُكُون
Usage	Elision and/or cutting /̛āg-gazm/ الجزم
Description	- It is the action of cutting or elision. - Very silent at the end of the verb. - Always written above the letter. - Arabic word never begins with a Quiescence
Bilingual Pronunciation Example	i.e. No vowel like for example the sound of the English Letter /N/

NB: When a Quiescence is added over an Arabic Letter; it shall be called a Still Letter /harf sākin/ حَرف سَاكِن because Arabic Letter+ Quiescence = Stillness /sākin/

Do you know that: 1- All Arabic Alphabets are consonants yet three of them are exceptionally referred to as long vowels; yet Dahdah termed them "Defective letters"as they are letters and not vowels as they are called in Arabic /huruf/ /̛āl-عilah/ حُرُوف العِلة: ālif, wāw and yā̛.

The Extension Sign	~ or آ
Extension Sign English Name	Unreal Quiescence - Extension Sign
Doubling Sign Arabic Name Transliterated	/̛āl-mad/ or /̛ālif/ /̛āl-mad/
Doubling Sign English Transliteration Sign	Ã
Extension Sign Arabic Name	المَد
Usage	Used in extending the sound of an Arabic Letter
Description	- Used in extending the sound of the Arabic Letter. - Mostly related to the letter ālif as it is written over the letter it. - It is a kind of extending the ālif sound.<
Example	- Consider the Arabic Feminine name Amal آمال /ãmāl/ as an example.