As nouns the difference between diacritic and tashkil
is that diacritic is a special mark added to a letter to indicate a different pronunciation, stress, tone, or meaning while tashkil is vowelization, vocalization or diacritization - the various diacritics, taken collectively, that are attached to arabic letters in certain styles of writing and that indicate such features as vowels and gemination (consonant doubling) and absence of any vowels.
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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tashkil
English
(Arabic diacritics)
Alternative forms
*
* tashkiil
* tashkeel
Noun
(-)
vowelization, vocalization or diacritization - the various diacritics, taken collectively, that are attached to Arabic letters in certain styles of writing and that indicate such features as vowels and gemination (consonant doubling) and absence of any vowels.
See also
* fatha
* kasra
* damma
* sukun
* shadda
* nikud
* pinyin
* zhuyin, bopomofo
* furigana
* pronunciation respelling
