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Diacritic vs Shadda - What's the difference?

diacritic | shadda |

As nouns the difference between diacritic and shadda

is that diacritic is a special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning while shadda is a diacritic () used in the arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant.

As an adjective diacritic

is distinguishing.

diacritic

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • distinguishing
  • (orthography, not comparable) Denoting a distinguishing mark applied to a letter or character.

    • Synonyms

    * diacritical

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning.

    • Synonyms

    * accent * diacritical mark

    Derived terms

    * diacritical

    Hyponyms

    * cedilla * diaeresis * * tilde * umlaut

    See also

    * ("diacritic" on Wikipedia)

    External links

    * * ----

    shadda

    English

    (wikipedia shadda) (Arabic diacritics)

    Noun

    (s)
  • A diacritic () used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant.

    • Synonyms

    * (diacritic) tashdid

    See also

    * fat?a * kasra * ?amma * suk?n * tašk?l ----