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Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت, Aramaic taw 𐡕, Hebrew tav ת, Phoenician tāw 𐤕, and Syriac taw ܬ. In Arabic, it also gives rise to the derived letter ث ṯāʾ. Its original sound value is /t/. It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪉, South Arabian 𐩩, and Ge'ez ተ.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek tau (Τ), Latin T, and Cyrillic Т.
Taw is believed to be derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing a tally mark.[citation needed]
The letter is named tāʼ. It is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:
Final ـَتْ (fatha, then tāʼ with a sukun on it, pronounced /at/, though diacritics are normally omitted) is used to mark feminine gender for third-person perfective/past tense verbs, while final تَ (tāʼ-fatḥa, /ta/) is used to mark past-tense second-person singular masculine verbs, final تِ (tāʼ-kasra, /ti/) to mark past-tense second-person singular feminine verbs, and final تُ (tāʼ-ḍamma, /tu/) to mark past-tense first-person singular verbs. The plural form of Arabic letter ت is tāʼāt (تاءات), a palindrome.
Recently, the isolated ت has been used online as an emoticon in the Western world, because it resembles a smiling face.
An alternative form (ـَة, ة) called tāʼ marbūṭa (تَاءْ مَرْبُوطَة), "bound tāʼ ", is used at the end of words to mark feminine gender for nouns and adjectives. Regular tāʼ, to distinguish it from tāʼ marbūṭa, is referred to as tāʼ maftūḥa (تَاءْ مَفْتُوحَة, "open tāʼ").
In words such as رِسَالَة ('letter, message, epistle'), the fatha (/a/) + tāʼ marbūṭa combination (ـَة) is transliterated as -a or -ah (risāla or risālah), and pronounced as /-a/ (as if there were only a fatha). Historically, tāʼ marbūṭa was pronounced as the /t/ sound in all positions, but now the /t/ sound is dropped in coda positions.
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Taw, tav, or taf is the twenty-second and last letter of the Semitic abjads, including Arabic tāʾ ت, Aramaic taw 𐡕, Hebrew tav ת, Phoenician tāw 𐤕, and Syriac taw ܬ. In Arabic, it also gives rise to the derived letter ث ṯāʾ. Its original sound value is /t/. It is related to the Ancient North Arabian 𐪉, South Arabian 𐩩, and Ge'ez ተ.
The Phoenician letter gave rise to the Greek tau (Τ), Latin T, and Cyrillic Т.
Taw is believed to be derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph representing a tally mark.[citation needed]
The letter is named tāʼ. It is written in several ways depending on its position in the word:
Final ـَتْ (fatha, then tāʼ with a sukun on it, pronounced /at/, though diacritics are normally omitted) is used to mark feminine gender for third-person perfective/past tense verbs, while final تَ (tāʼ-fatḥa, /ta/) is used to mark past-tense second-person singular masculine verbs, final تِ (tāʼ-kasra, /ti/) to mark past-tense second-person singular feminine verbs, and final تُ (tāʼ-ḍamma, /tu/) to mark past-tense first-person singular verbs. The plural form of Arabic letter ت is tāʼāt (تاءات), a palindrome.
Recently, the isolated ت has been used online as an emoticon in the Western world, because it resembles a smiling face.
An alternative form (ـَة, ة) called tāʼ marbūṭa (تَاءْ مَرْبُوطَة), "bound tāʼ ", is used at the end of words to mark feminine gender for nouns and adjectives. Regular tāʼ, to distinguish it from tāʼ marbūṭa, is referred to as tāʼ maftūḥa (تَاءْ مَفْتُوحَة, "open tāʼ").
In words such as رِسَالَة ('letter, message, epistle'), the fatha (/a/) + tāʼ marbūṭa combination (ـَة) is transliterated as -a or -ah (risāla or risālah), and pronounced as /-a/ (as if there were only a fatha). Historically, tāʼ marbūṭa was pronounced as the /t/ sound in all positions, but now the /t/ sound is dropped in coda positions.