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ẕāl, called dāl-ě-mǒ`jama, is the thirteenth letter of the Hindūstānī or Urdū alphabet, and ninth of the Arabic (from which it is taken).. It is pronounced by the Arabs like thin the English thou; but in Urdū its sound is not to be distinguished from that of ze, which is exactly our own letter z. It is used, by way of abbreviation, for ẕu`l-ḥijja, the last month of the Arabic lunar year; and in reckoning by abjad, it stands for 700.
Origin: Hindi