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Translingual
Letter
پ
Hijazi Arabic
Usage notes
پ (pāʾ) is not considered a distinct letter, but a variant of ب (bāʾ) that is sometimes used to write foreign names and loanwords with the phoneme /p/. It can be written and pronounced as a ب (bāʾ) instead.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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پ | ـپ | ـپـ | پـ |
Khowar
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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پ | ـپ | ـپـ | پـ |
Kurdish
Letter
پ • (pi)
Pashto
Letter
پ • (pe)
- The third letter of the Pashto alphabet.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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پ | ـپ | ـپـ | پـ |
Persian
Alternative forms
- پ پ ﭙ ﭗ
Written forms | |||
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پ | پ | ﭙ | ﭗ |
Isolated | Initial | Medial | Final |
Etymology
From ب (b) with three dots instead of one, added to the Arabic alphabet in the creation of the Perso-Arabic script in order to accommodate the /p/ phoneme of Persian missing from Arabic.
Letter
پ • (p)
- The third letter of the Perso-Arabic alphabet. Its names are په (pe), پِ (pe), and بای فارسی (bâ-ye fârsi, “the Persian ب bāʾ”).
Sindhi
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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پ | ـپ | ـپـ | پـ |
Uyghur
Pronunciation
- (letter name): IPA(key): /pe/
- (phoneme): IPA(key): /p/
Letter
پ • (pe)
- The forth letter of the Uyghur alphabet.
Forms
Isolated form | Final form | Medial form | Initial form |
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پ | ـپ | ـپـ | پـ |
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