Zat vs Zaa - What's the difference?
zat | zaa |
* 2009 , Sue Limb, Girl, Barely 15: Flirting for England , page 195:
The letter in the Arabic script.
* 2006 , Coleman South, ?Leslie Jermyn, Syria (page 95)
* 2013 , Jane Wightwick, ?Mahmoud Gaafar, Colloquial Arabic of Egypt
As a conjunction zat
is eye dialect of that.As a noun zaa is
the letter ظ in the Arabic script.zat
English
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Marie-Louise emerged from the girls' tent, wrapped in a fleece. She sat down by Jess. "It is wonderfool now zat Jodie is feelingue bettair," she said.
zaa
English
Noun
(en noun)- Z (zaa'' ): a loose-tongued ''z ; same as above.
- the letter Zaa , formally an emphatic 'z', but often pronounced as an emphatic 'd' in Egyptian Arabic
