As nouns the difference between diacritic and sukun
is that diacritic is a special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning while sukun is a diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
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
External links
*
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sukun
English
(Arabic diacritics)
Alternative forms
*
Noun
(
en noun)
A diacritic () used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.
See also
* fatha ()
* kasra
* damma ()
* shadda ()
* tashkil ()