ظẓāʾ
How it is made
phoneticstip of the tongue at the edges of the front teeth; voiced, continuant, velarised.
In brief, from the lines below. English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic AI
Sībawayh · al-Kitāb (d. c. 180/796)
ومما بين طرف اللسان وأطراف الثنايا مخرج الظاء والذال، والثاء
From between the tip of the tongue and the edges of the front teeth is the place of the ẓāʾ, the dhāl and the thāʾ. line 26561 ↗
Ibn Jinnī · Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb (d. 392/1002)
ومما بين طرف اللسان وأطراف الثنايا، مخرج الظاء والذال والثاء
From between the tip of the tongue and the edges of the front teeth is the place of the ẓāʾ, the dhāl and the thāʾ. line 984 ↗
Reference
Ibn Jinnī’s chapter on the ẓāʾits opening
الظاء حرف مجهور، يكون أصلا لا بدلا ولا زائدا
The ẓāʾ is a voiced letter; it is a radical, neither substitute nor augment. line 3295 ↗
The chapter begins at line 3294 ↗; the rest of it is on the letter's substitutions, assimilation and uses.
In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics
Level of existence: المعادن · the minerals
Divine Name: العزيز · the Mighty (al-ʿAzīz)
Lunar mansion: سعد الذابح · Saʿd al-Dhābiḥ
وله حرف الظاء المعجمة ومن المنازل سعد الذابح
Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 65491Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 10 line 2573 ↗
Nature (ch. 2)
المرتبة العشرية فحروفها حارة يابسة
The tenfold rank: its letters are hot and dry. AI
Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2582Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac
With fatḥa ـَ
فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي هو عظيم في نفسه ولا يكون معه ضده، كالجود في الشرفاء والغش في اليهود.
It is an indication of the thing that is great in itself and is not accompanied by its opposite, such as generosity in the sharīfs and deceit in the Jews. AI
al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-LamaṭīWith ḍamma ـُ
فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي يتبع تحرك نفسه وهي تسعى في هلاكه.
It is an indication of the thing that follows the movement of its own soul while that soul strives for its destruction. AI
al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-LamaṭīWith kasra ـِ
فهي إشارة إلى الشيء الذي يتضرر منه العبد ومن طبعه أنه يضر.
It is an indication of the thing by which the servant is harmed and whose nature is to harm. AI
al-Dabbāgh (d. 1132/1719), al-Ibrīz, ch. 2 §15, compiled by al-LamaṭīSībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn (Cairo: al-Khānjī), vol. 4, pp. 431–436. Digital text: 0180Sibawayhi.KitabSibawayhi.Shamela0023018-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb, Beirut: Dār al-Kutub al-ʿIlmiyya (as recorded by OpenITI), vol. 1. Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.SirrSinacatIcrab.Shamela0012017-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.