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z̤o`e (in Arabic) z̤ā(called z̤ā-ě-mǒ`jama or z̤ā-ě-manqūt̤a), the twenty-third letter of the Urdū alphabet (the seventeenth of the Arabic, from which it is taken).. It occurs only in words borrowed from the Arabic, or in the secondary (Persian and Hindūstānī) formations from such words. By the Arabs it is usually pronounced like a strongly articulated palatal z, or (by some) like ض ẓ; but the Persians and the Mohammadans of Hindūstān give it the sound of ز z. As a numeral it denotes 900.
Origin: Arabic