maddah (suomeksi)

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Arabic diacritic similar in appearance to a tilde. Over an alif ((m, ar, آ) "alif maddah"), it indicates glottal stop, /ʔ/, followed by a long /aː/. The diacritic is not used separately, only over alif. Alif maddah can appear in the beginning: (l, ar, آسِف) or in the middle of a word: (l, ar, قُرْآن).
In the Qur'an, it indicates an extra long vowel and can appear over any long vowel.
In Persian the letter is used only in the beginning of a word with a long /aː/: (l, fa, آمدن, tr=âmadan)