rasm
Pronunciations
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/ɹæzəm/
Noun
The base shape of an Arabic-script letter, without dots that distinguish it from other letters.
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Higher layers flesh out rasm; they provide body, specificity, and personality. Milo labels these shapes “archigraphemes,” the foundational structures on which graphemes are built. Although the Arabic abjad consists of twenty-eight letters, […]
A style of Arabic writing that omits these dots, often used in the early centuries of Classical Arabic literature (7th–11th centuries).