sukun

As nouns the difference between sukun and sulus

is that sukun is a diacritic () used in the arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel while sulus is thuluth; (arabic script style).

As nouns the difference between dukun and sukun

is that dukun is a Malay shaman or witch doctor while sukun is a diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

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.

As nouns the difference between tashkil and sukun

is that 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 while sukun is a diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

As nouns the difference between shadda and sukun

is that shadda is a diacritic (ـّ) used in the Arabic script to indicate gemination of a consonant while sukun is a diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

As nouns the difference between damma and sukun

is that damma is in Arabic script, the vowel point for "u", appearing as a small curl placed above a letter {{term|ـُ|lang=mul|sc=Arab}} and designating a short /u/. If the Arabic letter {{term|و||wāw|lang=mul|sc=Arab}} immediately follows, it indicates a long /ū/ while sukun is a diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.

As nouns the difference between abjad and sukun

is that abjad is a writing system, similar to a syllabary, in which there is one glyph (that is a symbol or letter) for each consonant or consonantal phoneme. Some languages that use abjads are Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu. Abjads differ from syllabaries (such as the Japanese hiragana) in that the vowel quality of each letter is left unspecified, and must be inferred from context and grammar while sukun is a diacritic (ـْ) used in the Arabic abjad to mark the absence of a vowel.