ل

lām, the thirtieth letter of the Urdū or Hindūstānīalphabet (the twenty-seventh of the Persian alphabet, and the twenty-third of the Arabic), has the sound of the English l.The corresponding Hindīletter is ल la, the twentyeighth consonant of the DevaNāgarī alphabet, and the third of the semi-vowels or antah-sthaletters. In reckoning by abjad, lāmstands for 30; it is also used as an abbreviation for the month Shawwāl.In works on HindīProsody, लlais used as an abbreviation of the word लघुlaghu.The letter lis commonly interchanged with rand ṛ, as will have been seen in what has preceded, and as will be pointed out in what follows.