د

dāl द da: The eleventh letter of the Urdū or Hindūstānīalphabet (called dāl-ě-muhmala); and the eighteenth consonant of the Nāgarī alphabet,—the third letter of the ta-vargor dental class. Its sound is much softer and more dental than that of the English d. As a numeral (see abjad), dāldenotes 4: hence, in almanacs, it stands for the fourth day of the week, or Wednesday; it is moreover used in astronomy to denote the planet Mercury, or the sign Leo of the zodiac:—da-kār, s.m. The letter or sound da.