Pe (Persian letter)

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Template:Short descriptionTemplate:Infobox graphemeScript error: No such module "sidebar". Pe (Script error: No such module "Lang".) is a letter in the Persian alphabet and the Kurdish alphabet used to represent the voiceless bilabial plosive ⟨p⟩.[1] It is based on Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang".) with two additional diacritic dots. It is one of the five letters that were created specifically for the Persian alphabet to symbolize sounds found in Persian but not in Standard Arabic, others being Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang"., and Script error: No such module "Lang"., in addition the obsolete Script error: No such module "Lang"..[2][3] In name and shape, it is a variant of be (ب). It is used in Persian, Kurdish, Pashto, Balochi, and other Iranian languages, Uyghur, Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri, Shina, and Turkic languages (before the Latin and Cyrillic scripts were adopted). Its numerical value is 2000 (see Abjad numerals).

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Example of the letter's use on a street sign in Alexandria, Egypt, in French Rue Champollion and Arabic Script error: No such module "Lang"..
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A trilingual road sign in Israel transliterates the final consonant from a winery with the English name "Tulip" into Arabic and Hebrew using non-native letters: پ in Arabic and the non-final form of פ in Hebrew.

It is one of additional common foreign letters that are sometimes used in some Arabic dialects to represent foreign sounds, it represents Script error: No such module "IPA". in loanwords and it can be substituted by Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "IPA". such as in protein which is written as Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "IPA". or Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "IPA".. In Egypt, the letter is called Script error: No such module "lang". (Script error: No such module "Lang". Script error: No such module "IPA"., "be with three dots"). In Israel, the letter is sometimes used to transliterate names containing Script error: No such module "IPA". into Arabic, when that sound originates in non-Semitic languages; when the Script error: No such module "IPA". sound comes from a Hebrew word, there is normally an Arabic translation instead.


Position in word: Isolated Final Medial Initial
Glyph form:
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When representing this sound in transliteration of Persian into Hebrew, it is written as ב׳.

Character encodings

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See also

References

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