پ

pe, प pa, the third letter of the Hindūstānīand Persian alphabets, and the twenty-first consonant of the Nāgarī alphabet,—the first letter of the fifth or labial class,—having the sound of the English p: . It does not occur in the Arabic alphabet; but the letter feis substituted for it in Persian words adopted into the Arabic language, thus fārsīfor pārsī):. It is occasionally interchanged with b, e.g. poṅgāfor boṅgā; upṭanfor ubṭan: In reckoning according to the abjad, peis the same asbe, viz. two:—pa-kār, s.m. The letter or sound pa:—pa-varg, vulg. pa-barg, s.m. The pseries, the labial series of consonants.