Definitions
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- noun A
diacritic (ـّ ) used in theArabic script to indicategemination of aconsonant .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I also require full vowel/shadda/sukun pointing, gender and plurals indicated and, preferably, semitic root.
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Because the sukun and the shadda also effect the pronunciation, are also usually left out, and are not vowels.
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"Come now," said he, putting the pipe back in his mouth, and making to rise, "and shadda off to bed; it's time you were aslape, the both of you."
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More power to your elbow! an may your shadda never be less! for you're the broth of a boy intirely.
John Bull's Other Island George Bernard Shaw 1903
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An its sewer to luk breeter for th 'shadda ther's been;
Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect John Hartley 1877
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I heard he dug good tin with his doll, delvan first and duvlin after, when he raped her home, Sabrine asthore, in a parakeet’s cage, by dredgerous lands and devious delts, playing catched and mythed with the gleam of her shadda, (if a flic had been there to pop up and pepper him!) past auld min’s manse and Maisons
Finnegans Wake 2006
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"Yah, yah, yah!" continued her tormentor, "you may see um shadda in da water -- dat all you ebba see ob Edwa'd Wa'ffeld.
The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness Mayne Reid 1850
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