kasra

English

A kasra

Alternative forms

• kasrah

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَسْرَة (kasra, “a breaking”), instance noun of the verb كَسَرَ (kasara, “to break”).

Noun

Examples
دِ (di) /di/. دِي (dī)/diː/.

kasra (plural kasras)

1. In Arabic script, the vowel point for "i", appearing as a small diagonal line placed below a letter ( ـِ ) and designating a short i /i/. If the Arabic letter ي (yāʔ) immediately follows, it indicates a long ī /iː/.

   Kasrahs are mainly encoded U+0650 ᴀʀᴀʙɪᴄ ᴋᴀꜱʀᴀ.

2. In Iranian Persian ـِ represents the vowel /e/. If the letter ـی immediately follows it represents the diphthong /ej/. This usage differs from other Arabic script languages and from classical Persian, in which the diphthong /ej/ did not occur.

Translations

in the Arabic script, the vowel point for "i" (kasra)

• Arabic: كَسْرَة f (kasra)
• Azerbaijani: kəsrə
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 齊齒符／齐齿符 (qíchǐfú)

• French: kasra (fr) m or f
• German: Kasra n
• Japanese: カスラ (kasura)
• Kazakh: кәсра (käsra)
• Korean: 카스라 (kaseura)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: ژێر (jêr)

  Northern Kurdish: kesre (ku)

• Malay: baris bawah, baris di bawah, kasrah
• Ottoman Turkish: كسره (kesre)
• Pashto: کسره f (kasrá)
• Persian:

  Classical Persian: زیر (fa) (zēr), کَسْرَه (fa) (kasra)

  Dari: زیر (fa) (zēr), کَسْرَه (fa) (kasra)

  Iranian Persian: زیر (fa) (zir), کَسْرِه (fa) (kasre)

• Russian: ка́сра (ru) f (kásra), кя́сра (ru) f (kjásra)
• Sundanese: jéér
• Tajik: касра (kasra), зер (zer)
• Turkish: kesra, esre (tr)
• Urdu: زیر m (zer), کَسْرَہ m (kasra),
• Uzbek: kasra (uz), zer (uz)

See also

• Arabic diacritics on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• fatha (fatḥa)
• damma (ḍamma)
• sukun (sukūn)
• shadda (šadda)
• tashkil (taškīl)

Anagrams

• akras, Karas, karas, Sakar, Araks, araks, Raska, Skaar, askar, Sakra, Askar

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Arabic كَسْرَة (kasra).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ka.sʁa/

Noun

kasra m or f (plural kasras)

1. kasra

Hungarian

Etymology

kas +‎ -ra

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkɒʃrɒ]
• Hyphenation: kas‧ra

Noun

kasra

1. sublative singular of kas