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ܙܠܵܡܵܐ

[zəlɑːmɑː]

noun

LanguageAssyrian Neo-Aramaic (Iraq)

Meaning
  1. crookedness
  2. crooked writing
  3. any one of two vowel marks:
  4. The state of being bent or not straight. It is also used as a grammatical term to refer to certain vowel marks in the script.
Examples

ܟܬ݂ܵܒ݂ܬܵܐ ܐܝܼܬ ܠܵܗ̇ ܙܠܵܡܵܐ ܒܐܵܗܵܐ ܚܲܛܵܐ.

The writing has crookedness in this line.

Pronunciationzəlɑːmɑː

Part of speechnoun

Usage noteIn linguistic contexts, this refers specifically to vowel diacritics.

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Source: English Wiktionary via kaikki.org (Wiktextract) (CC-BY-SA-4.0), adapted.