abjad

Bedeutung (Englisch)

1. A writing system for Arabic, historically also employed as a numeral system, in which there is one glyph (symbol or letter) for each consonant but vowels are not specified.
2. Any writing system in which glyphs are used to represent consonants or consonantal phonemes, but not vowels.
3. The system of abjad numerals; a numeral system in which the letters of the Arabic abjad are interpreted as numerals, typically used to enumerate lists and nested lists, as well as in numerology.

Konzepte

Abdschad

Persisch

Konsonantenschrift

Synonyme

Farsi

Western Farsi

Übersetzungen

abjad

abyad

أبجد

abjad

farsi

περσικά

φαρσί

persan

persiano

abjad

farisî

فارسی

Perzisch

Etymologie (Englisch)

Verwandt mit Englisch: ABC

In summary

From Arabic أبجد (ʔabjad), the term for the traditional ordering of the Arabic script (from the first four letters: أ (ʔ), ب (b), ج (j), د (d)). Compare English ABC and alphabet.
Linguistics sense coined by Peter T. Daniels.