English-German translations for abjad

• Abdschad der

Definition of abjad

• A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph for each consonant but vowels are not specified
• Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels
• The system of abjad numerals; a numeral system in which the letters of the Arabic abjad are interpreted as numerals, typically used to enumerate lists and nested lists, as well as in numerology

Examples

• Languages that use abjads include Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. Abjads differ from [[syllabary
• syllabaries]] (such as the Japanese hiragana) in that the vowel quality of each letter is left unspecified, and must be inferred from context and grammar

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