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Etymology 1
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic فَتْحَة (fatḥa, “an opening”), instance noun of the verb فَتَحَ (fataḥa, “to open”). Refers to the mouth position when pronouncing the /a/ vowel. Doublet of patach and ptaha, denoting the open vowel in the Hebrew and Syriac scripts.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
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دَ (da): /da/. |
fatha (plural fathas)
- In Arabic script, the vowel point for a, appearing as a diagonal line placed above a letter ( ـَ ) and designating a short a /a/. If the Arabic letters ا (أَلِف (ʔalif)) or ى (أَلِف مَقْصُورَة (ʔalif maqṣūra)) immediately follow, it indicates a long ā /aː/.
- The vowel designated by this mark.
Translations
[edit]in the Arabic script, the vowel point for "a" (fatḥa)
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See also
[edit]Arabic diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- kasra
- damma (ḍamma)
- sukun (sukūn)
- shadda (šadda)
- tashkil, taškīl
Etymology 2
[edit]Alteration of father.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fatha (plural fathas)
Anagrams
[edit]French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Arabic فَتْحَة (fatḥa, “an opening”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]fatha m or f (plural fathas)
Welsh
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From yr (“the”) un (“one”) fath (“kind”) â (“as”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Preposition
[edit]fatha
- (North Wales, colloquial) like
- Synonym: fel
- Dw i fatha bechdan heddiw. ― I'm good for nothing today. (literally, "I'm like a sandwich today.")
Adverb
[edit]fatha
- (North Wales, colloquial) kind of
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